Grandma Cruising

Food is so subjective, isn’t it? We really like Prime C - never had a bad steak & the rack of lamb is always brilliant. On the other hand we have been very much underwhelmed with Aqualina the last twice we ate there. Sounds like you didn’t try the Patio at night - it’s now our favourite place to eat.

We have previously cancelled then rebooked a cruise in the same cabin when the price dropped dramatically. We lost our £500 deposit on the first booking, but ended up saving about £1800 overall.

Boat tour to Martello island on the Haberton estate. You can walk amongst Gentoo and Magellanic penguins - wonderful.

Quite agree - Deck 11 has always been our ‘go to’ place on sea days on Azamara when in sunny climes. As you say you can choose sun or shade - and on a really hot day putting the sun bed next to the cool air vent is wonderful.

Does it mention an OBC coupon but not an amount? That’s what shows on ours.

The Wi-Fi on board is fine nowadays. We always have unlimited Wifi because buying minutes means you have to be very careful about logging on and off each time or the minutes just disappear. I think that if you’re not drinkers, on an 11 day cruise it’s probably better to just buy the Wifi package which would be better value, but the only way to be sure is to add up all the individual costs that are of value to you. A wifi package for an 11 day cruise is about $219.45 for one device at a time.

Same here but on our Azamara Invoice under Promotions Applied it says EXMO ESS (for Experience More Essential) and when I click Manage My Reservation on our upcoming cruise in My Account it shows 1 Experience More Essentials Package.

But not special soft drinks like elderflower cordials etc.

So glad to hear you’re OK Betsey, but sorry to hear about your son-in-laws farm.

We often check one of our two carry ons.

I think it depends on the requirements for cruising of the country where you embark.

Are you completing the document section in the cruise reservation? If so it should ask you if you want to store your reservation when you sign out. It did on mine and I clicked yes, and it’s still there.

I can help with laundry - mostly laundry is per item, but from time to time during a cruise they offer a bag for $40, and you can get a lot in a bag if you roll it up tight.

You’re right - it was 2019 - got my years mixed up, they come and go so quickly nowadays 🤭!

That’s if you’re lucky enough to be onboard for lunch. Our last cruise, despite being at the terminal at 1:30 we didn’t get onboard until after 4:30 when Windows was closed! It was Rio and we were told that’s not unusual there.

The only problem with being invited to dinner with an officer is it usually seems to be early - 6-6:30ish. We usually dine later - 7:45/8:00, so it puts our day out of joint!

Good idea

Our Norway cruise on Azamara Journey in July 2017 was our favourite - we went to Flam, Geiranger, Molde,Tromso, Trondheim, Olden, Bergen, the Lofoten Islands, Honningsvag/North Cape & Bodo (not in that order!). All were beautiful. We had White Night pretty far north - it was magical seeing the sun still above the horizon at midnight. There were numerous magical moments - the ship turning thro’360 degrees in Trollfjord, the Captain stopping the ship & sending a tender off to a small village to buy strawberries, going under a tight bridge and hearing the captain’s friend hailing us from above us, The weather was very varied - we had snow in Flam and hot sun in Bergen - so layers the way to go as far as packing is concerned.

I’m not sure either. We have had a couple of invites to these, once on one of the large tables with the Chief Housekeeper and once with only us and another couple with an Engineering Officer who was newly promoted. Both invites were in our early days of cruising with Azamara.

We had a faulty USB on an Azamara cruise (can’t remember which one). We reported it to Guest Relations and it was mended within 24 hours.

It was good on the Quest in October. Certainly good enough for emails & Whats App. We always prefer to buy a complete cruise package, rather than minutes - saves worrying about the minutes you’ve used!

It seems like they didn’t get the data, whether or not it was in the contract specification.

Boarding should be before 4 - usually from 2 at the latest.

Azamara have always had different marketing policies in different countries. Sometimes a promotion starts off in one country (usually the USA) then becomes available in other countries later on.

I’ve done that in the past to get good savings.