kimberlydrzymala

So happy to see another review from you. They are always so entertaining and fun! We are boarding the Edge in Sydney in two weeks and your review is just what I needed to get me very excited! We did the ABC islands in December on Silver Sea and had so much fun. Thanks for sharing!!

We will be arriving in Chioggia May 18th and have booked a hotel also in Chioggia for one night. I see lots of options for trips to Venice or the airport but I have not seen anything about local transportation from the port to the hotel. Can anyone tell me if there are typically local taxi's available? I have emailed the hotel but had no response yet. I appreciate any input that anyone has.

We are ending our cruise in Chioggia and we have booked a hotel for one night in Chioggia before we head home. Can someone tell me if there are readily available taxis when we depart that can take us from the port to our hotel? I believe it is only a couple of miles.

We MAY be sailing on journey May 6th from Barcelona. The reason why I say MAY is because my business class airfare that was paid for months ago has now disappeared. The flight was booked on Delta and we contacted Delta as I have been watching this as I was afraid it might happen. Everything was there until 4/15 and Delta says that Choice Air basically removed the booking. I reached out to my TA and have not heard back, I called Azamara and they are not taking calls today. Please someone tell me this is going to work out! We still see the return trip from Venice but that will not do us much good if we cannot get there! This is so frustrating.

We purchased the Indulgence package for our cruise prior to the migration and the reservation is showing the Essentials package. (1,000.00 less cost) I have talked to my TA and called several times and this is still incorrect. I am just going to show up with my receipt from Azamara and hope for the best. I already contacted my credit card company and worst case scenario I will charge it back. Has anyone else had a similar issue to this and had it resolved once on board? We are in the owners suite so I am hoping our butler can help get this sorted out along with missing OBC.

Do you have any information on the best of the best dinner? Are they doing this again? Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.

Happy to follow along on your journey. Thanks for doing this!

Thanks so much for your replies. Now that I understand what is included it makes it much easier to compare the packages. Our cruise is a 12 night cruise and we have already spent all our OBC from Azamara and still have 5 ports to go so the additional credits to spend on shore excursions will not go to waste. I cannot wait until we get on our first Azamara cruise!!

Sorry in advance as I am sure this has been covered before but the more I read the more confused I am becoming. We are frequent Celebrity cruisers and have traveled in the lower cost Suites in the past and I guess because of what automatically comes with Suites on Celebrity I assumed Azamara was the same. (I know bad assumption) This is our first Azamara cruise. This is our 30th wedding anniversary so we splurged big on an owner's suite on Journey traveling in the Med and again I assumed we would have the highest level drink package. Now that I am sure that is not the case I am wondering instead of spending 600.00 to upgrade our drink package it might be better to purchase the indulgence package which also includes the ultimate drink package, an OBC, a night a the chief's table, ETC. I thought the unlimited wifi was included with our cabin but honestly I am not even sure about that. Also, can someone tell me if we did upgrade the drink package either just the drinks or the indulgence package would we be able to get a better selection of bottles in our room? I understood in the upper level cabin's you could also order off the specialty menu and you could have this served course by course in your room. If that is the case and we purchase the ultimate drink package would we get the wine we are looking for served with our meal? I appreciate any insight the experienced Azamara cruisers can provide!

Thanks for confirming - I was sort of afraid that is the case. I guess we will just book on day one and work around it.

Question about booking specialty restaurants as we are new to Azamara. We are also staying in the CW Owner’s Suite so we will have free access to the specialty restaurants but since the menu does not change we would like to be able to book them after we can see what other things are available that day. I understand that the Chef’s Tables need to be booked quickly after boarding but are the specialty restaurants flexible about booking?

Thanks so much for posting this incredible review. We are taking our first trip on Azamara in May and we are traveling on Journey and staying in the same suite you stayed in. Even more excited now than before!

I was actually a little bummed we have been there several times but loved the city. When I sign into the web site it is still showing the original schedule. I am anxious to see what is offered in Portovenere.

Really enjoyed your review and your photos. We are doing our first Azamara cruise in May and reading your review made me even more excited! Thanks so much for sharing and taking the time to do this.

We are on that voyage and so hope this is true! Counting the days!