Bucket-List Cruise Adventure

30-Night Los Angeles to Marseille Cruise Adventure

MSC Cruises · MSC Magnifica · from Los Angeles

$3,889 per person · next sails Apr 7, 2027 Book this cruise@ Cruisebound · same fare
Get there

Fly into Los Angeles (LAX)

Your gateway to the voyage. Arrive a day or two early — the best of the trip starts before you board.

Open-jaw · fly into LAX, home from NCE · $1,694 for two est.
Before you sail

Bucket-list days near Los Angeles

Fly in at least a day early — every seasoned cruiser does, so a delay never costs you the ship. Here’s what’s worth that day, within reach of your port — not just the city you fly into.

111 mi from Los Angeles

Balboa Park

Your voyage · 30 nights, day by day

Day by day — the unforgettable thing at every port

Your whole sailing in order: the day you board, every port it calls — each with the single bucket-list experience there, the private, expert-led way, not the ship’s coach — any days at sea, and the day you step off.

Day 1
Los Angeles Embark
Board in the afternoon — fly in at least a day early (your day ashore here is just above).
Days 2–3
A day at sea
⛰ A day to savor the ship — the voyage itself is the experience, and it’s all included.
Day 4
Cabo San Lucas
El Arco & Lover's Beach · $240 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Days 5–7
A day at sea
⛰ A day to savor the ship — the voyage itself is the experience, and it’s all included.
Day 8
Puntarenas
⚙ Curating Puntarenas’s bucket-list experience — check back shortly.
Day 9
A day at sea
⛰ A day to savor the ship — the voyage itself is the experience, and it’s all included.
Day 10
Balboa
⚙ Curating Balboa’s bucket-list experience — check back shortly.
Day 11
Cruising Panama Canal
⚙ Curating Cruising Panama Canal’s bucket-list experience — check back shortly.
Days 12–13
A day at sea
⛰ A day to savor the ship — the voyage itself is the experience, and it’s all included.
Day 14
La Romana
Saona Island Private Speedboat & Natural Pool Day · $220 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 15
Road Town
Norman Island · $240 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 16
Philipsburg
Random Wind 'Paradise Day Sail' · $258 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Days 17–22
A day at sea
⛰ A day to savor the ship — the voyage itself is the experience, and it’s all included.
Day 23
Las Palmas
Roque Nublo & Tejeda · $421 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Days 24–25
A day at sea
⛰ A day to savor the ship — the voyage itself is the experience, and it’s all included.
Day 26
Ibiza
Formentera Day Trip & Ses Illetes, the 'Spanish Ca… · $54 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 27
A day at sea
⛰ A day to savor the ship — the voyage itself is the experience, and it’s all included.
Day 28
Naples
Pompeii with a Licensed Archaeologist · $32 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 29
Civitavecchia (Rome)
Vatican, Sistine Chapel & Colosseum in One Day · $405 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 30
Genoa
Sail straight to Portofino from the cruise dock · $52 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 31
Marseille Disembark
Disembark in the morning — or stay on for the days just below.
After you disembark

Bucket-list days near Marseille

You end in a different port — stay on, and add what’s within reach before you fly home.

16 mi from Marseille

Atelier de Cézanne

99 mi from Marseille

Musée Marc Chagall

Home

Fly home from Marseille (NCE)

What this adventure runs estimated · for two
Your hotel
Flights open-jaw · fly into LAX, home from NCE · 2 travelers $1,694 est.
Hotel before you sail1 night · Los Angeles · Contemporary~$490
Cruise fare30 nights · MSC Cruises · 2 guests$7,778
Shore excursions9 bucket-list things, booked direct · for 2 · more as they curate · swap any at its port above ↑~$1,922
Transfersairport ↔ ship, private car~$180
Trip total$12,064
Flights are estimated from our best gateways (refine from your own airport above) — an open-jaw trip: out to the embark port, home from where you disembark; the cruise fare is this sailing’s lead-in price for two; the hotel scales with the style you pick above; shore excursions are real book-direct operator prices, added as each port is curated; transfers are an estimate. We always build in at least one night ashore before you sail.
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