Grandma Cruising

It depends how good the performance is. Our event in Namibia was just brilliant. It was onboard, but the three acts we had were amazing. Personally we preferred it to the last few we’ve been to onshore where we had to queue up to get on a bus, go to a large tent at a hotel, have a drink and a snack then sit & watch a performance, then queue to get back on a bus, effectively taking up a whole evening for a 45 minute performance. If it’s off the ship then it needs to be something really special to justify the queuing & standing around, not just a performance that could be done in the cabaret lounge on the ship.

Mine wears pale beige trousers.

They don’t do Azamazing evening on cruises of less than 7 days or on transatlantic crossings. The White Night is an on-deck party night where most people wear white.

I think you were lucky that the ship docked in Santa Cruz at the same time as their Carnival. It sounds brilliant

I was just quoting the Azamara site. We had the Ultimate package on our last 2 cruises, so didn’t drink any of the included wine.

The included wines are 2 red & 2 whites which may change and a sparkling (usually a Prosecco) and a rose. There are no wines the Premium package and the wines in the Ultimate package are by the glass (but they may not all be available on any one cruise). Other than that you can buy a wine package, buy bottles of wine or buy a glass of the wines by the glass. Alternatively you can take your own wine onboard, drink it free in your cabin or pay $10 corkage fee to drink it in a public room.

Or you can buy them

But you have to click on the pencil and paper icon on the right to see them in detail

Just think about it, the OBC Azamara gives you comes back to them, not only that but they make a good profit on almost anything you buy using OBC. Speciality meals, drinks packages, Wifi, excursions, spa services etc don’t cost them anywhere near what they charge you in OBC, yet they can put your cash in the bank & earn interest on it. Thats how most travel agents work - they ask you to pay them way before they have to pay the cruise company, hotel etc. They earn interest on your money until they have to pay!

Thanks, now updated.

That’s not true, we had one on Pursuit in February/March this year.

Azamara emails you some weeks before your cruise to ask if you want to make a bid to upgrade your cabin and telling you what is the minimum amount they will look at for each type of cabin available. Typically you get the chance to bid for the level above the one you have booked and the one above that. However if the cruise is full you’re unlikely to get the offer. If you bid and are successful they email you again and ask you to ring them to discuss what is available then to confirm your payment. If people get an offer to upgrade they can post about it here (date of offer, cruise date, length of cruise, minimum bid, bid made, type of cabin originally booked, type of cabin bid for, cruise region) then come back & post their success (or not). I’ll enter the info into the spreadsheet so others can get an idea about what type of bid might be successful. Here’s a link to the spreadsheet so you can see the information from the old system with one new entry (our recent cruise) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pEoojQ5-EPmD4cI3gw1dVcYfYTXfZePdDXxU09l0H3M/edit

We recently finished a cruise on Pursuit and found the food in the MDR to be mostly as good as ever. There was one exception - I had duck breast one night and it was both very small and as tough as old boots. To be fair they were very happy to change it for another dish - I chose lamb chops and they were brilliant. Everything was very tasty and very well seasoned, Thai dishes like hot & sour soup were terrific! We also had the Reistafel, which was great, but way too much food!

Thanks, no problem,

I will start to update the spreadsheet as people post new information. Host Jazzbeau perhaps you could edit the first post in this topic to give a link to the spreadsheet and include my list of the information as in my post #1178. Thanks.

I’m happy to update the spreadsheet & keep it updated if people would find it helpful and are willing to post tge information!

Just wondering whether to resurrect the upgrade spreadsheet which I haven’t updated since March 23 when the upgrade system disappeared. As it now seems to be back, would people find the spreadsheet helpful or not. If you would find it useful then please start posting the following upgrade information. - bid date - cruise date - cruise length - loyalty level - minimum bid required for upgrade (in US$) - total amount bid (in US$) - cabin type initially booked - cabin type bid for - final bid cost per night (in US$) - bid strength - outcome (successful or not) - cruise region - any other useful information (E.g when told about outcome) Here’s a link to it. The only new entry is mine for my most recent cruise https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pEoojQ5-EPmD4cI3gw1dVcYfYTXfZePdDXxU09l0H3M/edit

Thank you, much appreciated.

We’ll be on Onward for the first time in September. Could someone post a photo of the chairs, so we know what to expect.

I think it’s the same thing as only world voyage passengers will be onboard as I understand it.

Buffet is always served for the first 24 hours of any cruise

Not heard of anyone doing this, but I don’t see why not.

Le Club Voyage is the old name for Azamara’s loyalty club. It’s now Azamara Circle

Yes, we had Botanist on Pursuit.

These drinks package prices are now showing on their website.