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What is it you're looking for as best is subjective?

We're sailing on the Azamara Quest for our first time and can't find anything on a sauna or steam room in the spa. Can someone comment and let me know? Thanks in advance!

There's no pressure to join in on any activities. You can just relax naked on a beach bed, or by the pool. There is a quiet side of the pool where you can just chill, or move to the active side and have lots of conversations and meet lots of people. They do have music and activities by the pool and volleyball on the beach. When those types of activities are going on, the music and narration by the Playmakers can get loud. Shoot me a DM if you need more additional info.

Retired at 59 and have NEVER regretted it even one minute. It's been 6 years now and still loving every day that I don't have to put up with the BS in the office!

I (65 yr old male) take 2 Pilates Reformer classes/week and work out at our gym 3 other times per week and walks our neighborhood 4x week. My wife (62 yrs old) dances in a Senior Dance group and also takes Pilates classes 2x/week, walks and walks with me. We always take the stairs when on-board a ship (never the elevator), and don't have a problem getting in and out of tenders, onto docks or on board busses. In fact, we don't really like getting on the excursions where you're on a bus with a group of others. We much prefer to walk into town and do our own thing after researching the things to do in those towns.

We cruise 2-3x/year, and fly overseas another 2-3x. We spent a lot of time with global travel for business before retirement, but it's different now that we're traveling for pleasure. It's so much nicer now that we don't HAVE to be anywhere and can do what we want, when we want.

We've taken 2 trips to Hawaii. One from SF and one from SD. Both times the Pacific was rough and the skies were overcast and it was cold for the first 4 days at sea. The last day before we arrived in Hawaii, and the first day going back, were clear, smooth and sunny. I wish there were more islands off the coast of CA (like the East Coast), but we don't have many options. I doubt we will do that trip again because of the weather and sea conditions.

They're more liberal in what they allow to take place at the resort - along them being clothing optional resorts.

But they're back...

Those are all features to us too.

Not on their cruise, but many times at their resorts. Their resorts are fantastic!

Look at Desire Resorts Cruises - they buy out the entire ship on Azamara for this type of cruise. We're going next May.

We agree with you on this issue! Have you looked into Desire Resorts? If you have any questions we've been there countless times - just hit me up with questions.

The Desire resorts are fantastic! There isn't another place that is as nice and as liberal as Desire. Their resorts are 4+ stars, and we keep going back as we just can't get enough.

Sorry for the delayed response, but it's 5/24/24 - so we haven't gone yet. We're greatly looking forward to it.