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Hamwen3839

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  1. We are doing a Barcelona to Capetown cruise 6 November 2024 on Voyager. We stop at a few African countries ( west Africa) , some do not require Visas but some do. We are Australian citizens and will ONLY be doing ship excursions.Regent site seems to indicate we would be covered by the ship’s blanket visa if on ship tours but then goes on to say visas are the responsibility of the passenger. Quite confusing as we will only be in each port for less than 24 hrs. Has anyone ,particularly Aussies done this cruise recently and could advise ? countries we think need Visas are Cape Verde,Senegal,Ivory Coast,Ghana, Thanks in advance .
  2. Thanks everyone. I suspected it would not be a quick refund process especially as we are in Australia. It just seemed to me that if only one credit card was used to pay for all excursions it could simply be refunded to that card.No one would dispute payment.
  3. Just returned from Majestic cruise to NZ where we missed the first two ports due to weather. We had booked two ship excursions pre cruise for those ports using credit card ( over $600). The money was shown on our final statement as a refundable credit but we were told onboard that it would not be refunded to our credit card but rather a cheque would be received “ in due course”.That cheque would come from “head office”. This seemed unreasonable to me as we paid by credit card but now have to wait who knows how long to get refunded. Anyone have experience with this arrangement and how long did it take to receive cheque?
  4. We have been to Santorini 4 times , it was always such a magic place. Sadly we would not go again after our last experience. We too had no option offered other than cable car return, a wait of 90 minutes in the heat with numerous people just pushing in.There were 4 ships in that day so far too many people to move around the streets at all. There was another excursion on a boat to thermal waters which was a lovely few hours. I would go again to see the excavation sites but not into either tourist town.
  5. We found out from our taxi driver so we were ok but information was confusing and misleading. Glad you made it !!!
  6. Really sorry, cannot find all that information now as we did not expect to get the upgrade. From memory the offer was made in June , the minimum bid was about $500 AUD and maximum about $2500 AUD so our bid was considered weak. Cruise 17 August Greece Intensive.
  7. Just got notification of our successful upgrade bid on our 9 day Journey cruise starting soon from P1 Veranda Plus to a Club Continent Suite. Bid EACH was $950 Australian (approx $677 US) . Not expecting to get it as bid was low in our opinion but very happy we did. First time Azamara cruisers so can see it will be a lovely cabin.
  8. We are on this cruise B2B in August with Athens in the middle and have been advised we will “probably” have to provide a negative test ( the ship will do the test for free). However since Azamara dropped the need for any test pre boarding it was unclear. The requirement is a Greece thing not Azamara but not clear if it applies to people who are already on board and may not even get off in Athens to sightsee.
  9. Azamara Newbie enquiry.Is the hair dryer adequate or do I need to bring my own ? Have been on other cruise ships where hairdryer was so “weak” it was next to useless.
  10. But to show how confusing it is for Greece this is a quote from the official Greece tourism site Furthermore, as of Sunday 01.05.2022, all travellers arriving in Greece, regardless of their country of origin, are no longer required to display a valid certificate of vaccination or recovery from COVID-19, or evidence of a negative test result from SARS-CoV-2 infection (PCR or Rapid Antigen test).
  11. I think that list pre dates Azamara’s release because it says for Perth W.A. you need to show evidence of negative test and that changed 6 th July to no evidence required, in fact you don’t even have to show evidence of Vaccination anymore to fly into Australia.
  12. I am not sure about Athens. On the new release from Azamara it has a link to all countries and whether they still require a negative test to enter. Greece is NOT one of the countries requiring a negative test however I suspect that is only for people flying in not coming in by cruise ship.We are on a B2B where Athens is the mid point on August 26 th so will have to wait and see what Greece says when we arrive.
  13. I think you are 100% correct , obviously time difference in reaching Azamara agent but also I think we ( in Australia) seem to get conflicting responses.I have found this with issues like Price Guarantee,transfers from Venice to Ravenna etc )
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