Grandma Cruising

Lots of us have experience of the Journey and of all the Azamara ships which are all very similar. Have you looked at the topic ‘Tips for Azamara Newbies’ - lots of information there. What do you specifically want to know? Have you looked at the Roll Call for the cruise here

Don’t forget to come back & tell us how you got on with your bid.

Just posting the ‘Tips’ spreadsheet link to save people having to search through the topic for it https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Deg-GaeZYLml8NN3PVwoh_jUkQ8QmYUe1wxnVAlODE/edit

Best place to post is on your roll call here

Thanks, added https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pEoojQ5-EPmD4cI3gw1dVcYfYTXfZePdDXxU09l0H3M/edit

I’ll add your successful bid to the spreadsheet - can you let me know your Loyalty level, the length of the cruise and which region it was in. Thanks

My guess is that Azamara were not aware of the Indian Visa issue for the majority until people boarded, doesn’t leave much time to make plans.

We’re the same - use a credit card that gives Avios to buy absolutely everything, then save the Avios to upgrade to business for cruise flights.

Cruisemapper has the Onward as in Venice Ports https://www.cruisemapper.com/ports/venice-port-79?tab=schedule&month=2023-09#schedule

Here’s the link for the Tips spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Deg-GaeZYLml8NN3PVwoh_jUkQ8QmYUe1wxnVAlODE/edit

Two booked this year - Rio to Lisbon on Pursuit in March and Dubai to Singapore on Journey in November. We’re thinking 2023 may be the last year in which we do long haul travel due to our advancing years, so we intend to make the most of it. We’ve been on Quest, Journey & Pursuit but not Onward.

Us too, so sample of 2.

We did! Good wishes to you too - hope you a great year in 2023!

Yes, Azamara does provide a free shuttle in most ports where the ship docks away from the town. There are some exceptions in places where the local taxi union has an agreement with the port authority not to allow this. However because Azamara ships are small they are often able to dock close to the town. We always buy a full Wifi package as the Wifi speed is not brilliant and you end up wasting precious minutes logging on and off. The Wifi is in the process of being upgraded across the ships, so this may change if the speed increases.

We were able to transfer our deposit from a Black Sea cruise that we cancelled to a cruise 10 months later that we had already booked.

Glad to hear it all went well.

I do hope you all feel better soon and have a lovely ‘Christmas’ day later on.

Happy Christmas to you Mackdogmolly and to everyone

https://www.azamara.co.uk/sites/default/files/pdfs/aqualina_2019_april_2.0.pdf

My memory is that the ship went into Trollfjord the day after we were in Svolvaer, we didn’t do the ship’s RIB tour, we booked it privately.

The ship does sail into Trollfjord and turns around there, however I’d still recommend a tour we did from Svolvaer - it was a RIB tour which went into Trollfjord and then took us to see Sea Eagles https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/trollfjord-%26-sea-eagle-rib-safari-lofoten-explorer/212019/

Thanks, added to the spreadsheet.

Have you got travel insurance, if so check if they would refund you. In the UK travel insurers will refund you and would say if you did go you wouldn’t be insured if government advice is not to go.

Thanks, added to the spreadsheet

Added that point into the spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Deg-GaeZYLml8NN3PVwoh_jUkQ8QmYUe1wxnVAlODE/edit