Grandma Cruising

Trouble is that it depends on the Lisbon immigration authorities. Might be worth writing to Azamara to ask.

The Azamazing Evening should be listed in the available excursions on your cruise - it’s the one with the zero cost - it may be listed as a Destination Celebration if it will be held onboard. To see the excursions log into your account, click on Upcoming Cruises then Manage my Reservation. Scroll down to excursions then click on the paper/pencil icon on the right and you should see the excursions. If you have already booed excursions you will see two tabs - booked on the left & available on the right. You won’t know when the White Night will be until you get onboard, but it’s likely to be on a night when the ship is in port until late.

4028 is an accessible cabin, so it’s bigger than most.

I would guess not as it only offers drinks on the upgrade packages.

Epidaurus is definitely worth seeing, but Napflio itself is a lovely little town and nice to wander around.

Not sure, judging by the discount quoted for the package of 3 Chefs Tables, it must be $125 or thereabouts. As I haven’t posted link to the spreadsheet for a while (tho’ it is on the first post in the topic (thank you Host Jazzbeau), here it is. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Deg-GaeZYLml8NN3PVwoh_jUkQ8QmYUe1wxnVAlODE/edit

We love the Aft Veranda Plus cabins - much larger balcony!

Sounds as if this is really going to be cruise to remember!

Speciality dining packages won’t sell out. As soon as you get onboard go to the Reservation desk (check with Guest Relations where it is on embarkation day) & make your bookings. Once your OBC is in place you should be able to get Guest Relations to transfer the cost of your restaurant bookings to your OBC.

Presumably you have logged into your account, clicked Manage my Reservation & clicked on the paper & pencil icon & then on the available tab. If so & you can’t see the prices, try through a different browser such as Chrome

Try clearing your history - sounds to me as if you’ve got NCL cookies!

Have you had a look at the topic ‘Tips for Azamara Newbies?

Ooh, that’s loud!

Firstly your Reservation number is your booking code, that is what you should enter when setting up your Azamara Account. Once you have set up your account, you should see Upcoming Cruises. Click on that then on Manage my Reservation. After that scroll down to Shore Excursions, then click on the paper/pencil icon on the right. That will show any available excursions (although as your cruise is not for well over a year, there may not yet be too many available). Think you may be right that it’s possibly too early to confirm the departure port.

We’ve done 2 Azamara cruises in the last 8 months on Pursuit & Journey, they were still very good. Azamazing evenings haven’t stopped, but some are now onboard. In November/December our Azamazing evening was onshore, but it could have been done onboard as we just queued to get on a bus, went to a tent behind a big hotel in Colombo, saw a show of local drumming & singing then went back on the bus. This February the evening was onboard in Walvis Bay, Namibia, and was brilliant, we had an amazing choir, a great acapella group and a group of local dancers. They put on two shows so everyone could see it in comfort and there was no queuing or bus trips.

Not as far as I’m aware.

I’d try ringing again to speak to someone different.

We got one on Pursuit in Feb/March, but not the one with the little zipped compartment inside the top.

When we transferred our deposit to a new cruise following the cancellation by Azamara of our Black Sea cruise, we automatically got all the OBC from our original booking.

That spreadsheet isn’t mine - it was put together by uktog then recently taken over by LoonBoarder

I would assume the $250 OBC would be in addition to the existing OBC - that’s what I’d expect & be pushing for.

I know speciality booking times on Azamara are offered at 6/6:30 and 8/8:30 however we have never had a problem with arriving earlier than our booking time. We like to eat somewhere between 7:15 and 7:45. We book the 8 or 8:30 time, then turn up at about 7:45. We’ve nearly always been seated immediately and no-one has ever told us we are too early!

You don’t have to dine in the speciality restaurant, you can choose to use Discoveries MDR initially so you can share a table or two and maybe meet people who would join you in a speciality restaurant later in the cruise.

That looks great

I’m sure you’re right - seems as if you’d either love it or hate it. Looks fascinating to me, looking at real life not the manicured tourist slice of life that you see in many ports