Mediterranean to California – Rome, Barcelona & Panama Canal

About this cruise

This is the kind of cruise where you actually have time to go back to a port highlight you missed the first time. 35 nights from Civitavecchia (Rome) on April 6, 2026, visiting Genoa, Marseille and Barcelona, with additional stops along the Caribbean. You wind up in Seattle, so it's worth planning a night or two there. The final stretch is open ocean, which gives you time to process everything you've seen and use the ship one last time. 11 countries (Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Sint Maarten, Bahamas, United States, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico) across the Caribbean, each with its own character. You get around 9 hours in each port, which is enough for an excursion, lunch, and some wandering around on your own. When you're not ashore, You won't go hungry on MSC Poesia. 4 restaurants come with the fare, plus 1 more when you feel like treating yourself. One of the underrated parts of a longer cruise: you actually get to know people. The couple from dinner, the group at trivia, the bartender who remembers your drink. An April departure catches that sweet window of warm-enough weather before the summer rush. Hard to ask for much more than that, honestly.