Swarovski crystal stairway
The décor on MSC Meraviglia was mostly tasteful. It kind of looked to be generally going for understated elegance. The centerpiece is the crystal stairway in the atrium, and the highlighted feature the video ceiling over the promenade, reminiscent of Freemont Street in Las Vegas. Swarovski crystal stairways are a thing with MSC. The Meraviglia had a double one going several levels through the atrium. The Divina had them too.
odd sculptures weren’t everywhere on Meraviglia, but could be found in some places
Ugly or odd sculptures or statues seem to be a requirement on most cruise ships. On some ships they are everywhere. Some of the other cruise ship décor can be pretty weird too. Celebrity Constellation was one of the strangest of all with stairway art consisting of weeds, blobs, and childish looking sculptures including ear worms. There was also a statue on the Constellation that looked like the covid virus, though it existed long before covid. Carnival Splendor was pretty far out there in its décor too with pink dots everywhere, a dining room ceiling that looked like fried eggs, a stairway railing that looked like hamburger buns, and a painting in an elevator we dubbed naked toilet man. Meraviglia didn’t have any of that, though a few odd sculptures and ugly statues could be found when looking for them.
Alhambra
All of the decks had names as well as numbers. The were named after various locations around the world like the Grand Canyon, Kilimanjaro, Machu Picchu, or Petra. Our cabin was on a deck called Alhambra, which was one of the few named after something I had not previously heard of. It’s a fort in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. The word means the red house and it is one of the 7 wonders of the Muslim world. Each deck had several pictures of the place that the deck was named after near the stairways and elevators. There was no elevator button for deck 17, but it did have one for deck 13. American ships usually have no deck 13, but in Italy 17 is the bad luck number so Meraviglia jumped straight from deck 16 to 18, skipping deck 17. Meraviglia means wonder in Italian.
elevator bay sculpture
The front stairway had sculptures in the elevator bay as well as the location pictures.
stairway boats
The landings between decks on stairways had pictures of boats. Sometimes one big one and sometimes two smaller ones. They were all the same style of picture, but each with different boats.
dining room
The ship had three dining rooms. Ours was all done in red and white.
walls of glasses
The other two dining rooms had walls of glass at the entrance, one full of bottles of wine and the other of glasses.
walkway into the casino
Other places on the ship had decorative entryways as well, like the casino with a card-themed entrance. The ship had a lot of space taken up with wide hallways that only served as the entrance to one place.
rock grotto spa
Public spaces each had their own individual décor that was different from anywhere else on the ship. The spa looked like a rock grotto.
Anchor Pub
The Anchor Pub had barrel tables on the walkway outside and a large mural at the end of the hall with a real bicycle sitting next to an old-fashioned lamppost.
fishy buffet
The buffet had quite a variety of fishy wall paintings.
glass sculpture
An open area with lots of chairs had a glass sculpture hanging over an area with no floor where you could look down and see the deck below – or look out the 2-deck-high window to enjoy a view of the sea or whatever else was out there like sunsets, scenery, or ports.
atrium
The atrium opened up 4 decks high with twisty sculptures running down to a piano at the bottom, flanked by the crystal stairways. Meraviglia is a pretty large ship with something different to see everywhere you go onboard.
dome show
The video ceiling dome over the promenade area, which was called the galleria on the Meraviglia, mostly displayed still pictures of all sorts of things from cloudy skies to colorful patterns or even photos of people walking by, but several times a day they had dome shows where moving videos played across the dome.