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KTV I am on my Ipad and after following candkd’s instructions, it all  worked for me. 

Strenz we booked with Nice Travel (recommendation from viatour) they have smaller buses max in group 19. Were booked for August 9th (hence higher hotel rates) on a tour that includes admission to the crater and the lagoon, pick up drop off from hotel etc. 

Hopefully we won’t run into the difficulties you endured.

Ah thank you Strenz, now I am oriented. The Borg $550 a night, ouch! Although I’m sure it is worth it.

We are holding a room at the center hotel Laugavegur 15 minutes walk additional but under $300. We also reserved an independent all day Golden Circle/Blue Lagoon tour for our disembarkation day with Viatour. Should be great!

r@rd thank you. Does anyone happen to know the name of the pier?

Thanks again. Just trying to be strategic about hotel  location. I do understand bad weather could change the location. Does Miobakki pier sound like the usual embarkation point?

Could anyone confirm for me please the specific pier location of The Star Pride when it docks in Reykjavik? I saw something from 5 years ago about Miobakki. Is this still the correct pier? Thank you

1 hour ago, candkd said:

If you log into you account, upcoming cruises, manage my reservation then the "pencil" to see the excursions. The prices should be listed with the excursions that are still available.

Thank you very much, now I can see the pricing 

We don’t have OBC to spend so just a general enquiry here.

I was just perusing the shore excursions that Azamara are offering on our upcoming British Isles cruise July 14th. but no prices are quoted for said excursions. Is that normal?

Thank you

edit: Obviously I can give them a call, but if the prices were posted I could save their time and mine by eliminating the more costly offerings

59 minutes ago, Grandma Cruising said:

It’s still sweet, just sweetened with sugar substitute.

Oh interesting. I will give it a try thank you

Thanks grandma but my sweet tooth says no to sugar free tonic

We are trying Azamara for the first time in July. I was pleased to read that my go to gin, Gordon’s, is on the basic liquors menu. I’m not too fussy about tonic water and usually go with the safeway/albertsons economy tonic water. All this talk about Royal Club, which I’ve never heard of is making me anxious. Obviously  a bit of a hassle, but I’ll be purchasing my own tonic water as we stop in at places. Bring a can to the bar I suppose.

Does anyone know how much sugar is in a 12 ounce can of this stuff? I can’t find a decent nutrition label online, thanks. 

hopeless trying to call them May 20th. Just played with the new on line system, first it showed my upcoming trip, but then it said couldn’t be found. I’m planning on chilling for a week and see how they get up to speed.

All clear now Nordski thank you!

Nordski, are you saying there are NOT possibilities from the starboard side? Or are you saying both port and starboard are good?

btw, I will of course report back with cabin review so it can be added to the excellent spreadsheet . I saw the tips for newbies spreadsheet but overlooked this superb cabin one. Thanks again Jazzbeau.

Thanks Mack, after many great cruises on Windstar, we’re excited to explore Azamara. The treatment we get from the Windstar crew is sensational, maybe it’s due to how we interact with them, but anyway we’re looking forward to interacting with the Azamara crew.

Thanks Host Jazzbeau and Benthayer, yes i will scour that spreadsheet some more it’s very helpful. Since posting I have confirmed that the V2’s are exclusive to deck 7 which is great.

Hi all 

After numerous cruises with Windstar we are going to try out Azamara, The Quest on July 14th Leith Edinburgh to London. I hope these questions aren’t redundant or weird.

We are booking a club verandah V2 state room, may I assume these state rooms are exclusively on deck 7, or could this V2 class also be on deck 6? I ask because I’ve read on here that deck 7 is generally the better option.
 

This maybe a bit silly but we plan on requesting a room ending with an even number, putting us on port side of the ship. My thinking, maybe crazy, is that since much of the cruise is counter clockwise around Scotland, we would have better views of the land.

Finally I know to avoid staterooms near the self service laundry, but are there any other staterooms on deck 7 to try and avoid?

Thank you 

Canned guinness is about as exciting  as it gets. The offerings are so bland that the local offerings like Hinano become quite appealing. Hinano is pleasant but more of a lager than an IPA

At the risk of stating the obvious, the braille on the atm’s and the ice hulls are probably  a tooling issue. It’s more cost effective to purchase the keypads with a redundancy than tell the manufacturer to re tool and only make keypads with no braille. Similarly  the ships are presumably more attractive to Windstar with unneeded ice hulls than commissioning/ or purchasing vessels without ice hulls.

Give them a call, they should have an update for you on your refund.

Sorry about the choppy seas, we were on the week before you, I guess we got lucky.

Exciting stuff

arebaj, somewhere on here is a discussion pertaining to booking excursions before you sail (with a credit card), and then obtaining a refund and using your OBC instead . The idea is that you get to avoid being disappointed once on board due to an excursion being sold out.

That sounds like a decent  credit, $600 each?

Can it be used on drinks, gratuities?

Approximately how much out of pocket were you to begin with after your Tahiti cruise was cancelled?

And do you feel “taken care of”

Thanks in advance

On 4/4/2024 at 4:12 AM, 6rugrats said:

Windstar charters ships every single year, which disappoints and inconveniences many people. Most cruise lines do this.

empathy clearly not your strong suit. Award ticketing is not available to the OP till next year. This cruise was canx in favor of a charter within 120 days of sailing. Who does that?

you are allowed to bring 2 or 3 (if cruise is over 8 days) bottles of wine only, at embarkation . You may also buy  more wine at ports of call and bring it on board. Any of the wine you bring to dinner should be charged a $15 corkage fee per bottle.

The Wind Surf has a sign on the wall where you board the ship that says “maximum 2 bottles of wine to be brought on board per week”. I have no idea how they enforce that, they certainly didn’t when we were on board earlier this month. 

FYI the all in package includes gratuities in the $89 and also includes the hotel $16 per day gratuity. Based on what you wrote though, I would look at a 30 day data cruise package from your phone carrier and or Windstar’s internet offerings.

On 3/16/2024 at 5:41 PM, new_cruiser said:

There is a range for dinner. No t-shirts and no shorts. Nice jeans are allowed (not ripped ones). After more than 30 years in the tech industry, we are pretty casual - mostly polos and slacks for dinner for both of us; sometimes nice jeans on a cooler weather cruise. But plenty of people dress up more than that (perhaps more women than men). So if you would be more comfortable being around the average dressiness of others, you might go a step up from that.

 

Depending on season and location, you might want to bring something warmer for dining on deck (BBQ, Candles and, for the Star ships, the Grill).

just back from the windsurf. People do nearly always respect the dress code. Unfortunately the exceptions stick out like sore thumbs. Candles the other night had a diner in swim shorts, another fella with his cowboy hat on, and a third diner, big guy, in a singlet. I wasn’t impressed.