ShopperfiendTO

Could you elaborate what "this summer" means, starting July until September 2022? I thought I read that some ships earlier this month had over 500 passengers on them which is more than 70%.

You should ask that friend the same question about Cabot Cove and if it's died down since Murder She Wrote went off the air. 🙃

Hi, For those who have been on Azamara recently, did you have a port where you docked at 10:30, 11:00 or 11:30, and if you did, was there a brunch event on the ship that day instead of normal breakfast and lunch?

I think your real issue isn't so much the Blue Lagoon back to Reykjavik part but from the BSI bus terminal to the cruise port part. Based on your information, it seems you have about 30 minutes to do this (assuming that "all-aboard" time is 1:30 p.m. of course). Do you know which port you'll be docked at? Reykjavik has two (at least?). The city centre's not that big so if worst comes to worst, when you arrive at the BSI bus terminal you could probably take an expensive taxi ride to the port instead of a transfer bus to the port which might take a more scenic route than you'd like. According to Google Maps, the drive should not take more than 15 minutes to the probable port (you will need to confirm which port it is for your actual ship/sailing), so it appears do-able (with a taxi fare backstop) but cutting it close: https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Reykjavik+BSI+Bus+Terminal,+Reykjavík,+Iceland/Reykjavik+Cruise+Terminal/@64.1446302,-21.9150262,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x48d60b350153a4cd:0xc33373e2c14646c7!2m2!1d-21.9310479!2d64.1375715!1m5!1m1!1s0x48d675d9647292ed:0xe72d3270593c9ac8!2m2!1d-21.861768!2d64.1555!3e0 The other issue as the poster above mentioned is how sure are you that the ship is leaving at 2:00 p.m. If closer in to the date of actually arriving at the port the departure time changes to an earlier time, will you be able to adjust accordingly? I found this from the Blue Lagoon website ( https://www.bluelagoon.com/legal/blue-lagoon-terms-and-cancellation-policy😞 "FOR BOOKINGS TO THE BLUE LAGOON AND RETREAT SPA FROM JANUARY 1st, 2022 UNTIL DECEMBER 31st, 2022 - If you cancel with more than 48 hours notice: 100 % is refunded - If you modify your booking with less than 48 hours notice, we charge you an extra fee of ISK 1800 - If you cancel with less than 48 hours’ notice: No refund is made Blue Lagoon Ltd. reserves the right to cancel all bookings and reservations, when unable to provide the company’s services due to Force majeure event, such as but not limited to weather, strikes, natural disasters, or any other irregularity outside the company’s control. In such an event, no compensation or refund is payable."

Thanks! I didn't realize that the "Confirm" blue button at the bottom is different than the "Proceed to checkout" hyperlink at the top. However, when I do click the "Proceed to checkout" link and enter my credit card details to pay the zero amount owing, I get a red "ERROR" banner message with no other detail/information of the error. I checked my information and card details and everything's correct. I also tried another credit card (and checked that the information was entered correctly too) and the same thing happened. We are not going to buy any extra excursions beyond the ones included with the OLife excursions option so I'm not sure if this will help us?

For the OLife excursions option, if you only select the free ones, how do you know that the free excursions you've chosen are booked and recorded in O's records? I've chosen my included excursions and at the cart, it shows "Confirm" and all I get is a message from the website saying that the details are confirmed but nothing else. This is in contrast to a previous cruise where I booked extra excursions to get the "YWYW" discount and paid for the extra not-included excursions. When I did that, I got an email confirmation from O which listed *all* of my booked excursions, i.e., it listed the ones I paid for (with discount) and the included/free excursions as well, and the bottom line total was the net payment for the discounted extra non-OLife-included excursions. I didn't get a similar email from O even though I thought I would, listing all of my booked excursions with a bottom line total of NIL since they were all part of the Olife-included excursions package. I looked at my booking and don't see anywhere to see which excursions I've booked either. Is this normal? I'd like to have some record that my excursions are confirmed in case I board and the excursion tickets don't show up in my cabin and even worse if they sell out before boarding.

Thanks for your response. Are you saying that we can't insist on having a test the day before disembarking and that we should now all be packing our own self-test kits? Your statement that O would have covered the Vancouver quarantine seems contradictory to the post just before yours though ("According to my TA, if you get covid on the ship, as soon as the cruise ends and you disembark, you are on your own. Cruiselines no longer cover the costs of quarantine.") Also, what if you self-test positive the day before disembarking but when you go to the medical office on board they test you in a superficial way and it is negative (even though you are sure you have it because the self-test showed "super/strong/instant" positive and you were showing all of the symptoms)?

I wonder how universally accurate the part that has been bolded actually is. Assuming that they actually do self-isolate, what do they tell their room stewards, or to they just expose them too? The point of testing and finding out you are positive is less to do with treating you than it is to make sure that you, as being infectious, do not spread it around to and infect your fellow passengers and the crew including your room stewards.

Can you insist that they test you before leaving the ship and insist that they do a full, thorough swab instead of what other posters have indicated have been quite quick and felt like superficial swabs? The most current "SailSAFE" FAQs state that tests will be done only if required by the country the ship is entering or the passenger is returning to. As the poster was disembarking in Canada, no test was required to be taken in order to disembark. We know that the cruiselines have a bit of a conflict of interest in not performing a full by-the-book thorough test because if it is positive it has to be reported to the CDC and they have to cover the costs related to quarantine etc.

It's been a while since our last Azamara cruise, but on that one the included wines were from actual wineries with the wineries' respective labels on it. Could you confirm if there are other included wines that are not the "house" brand? Red, white, rose and sparkling if possible. Thanks very much.