Grandma Cruising

If you make a last minute booking you generally have to ‘go with the flow’ and be prepared to take whatever is available in the way of cruises, suites, excursions, hotels & flights. Certainly your options will be more limited than if you book well ahead.

Did you use the FCC? Given the situation for cruising in 2020 and 2021 I would have thought they should have been willing to extend the expiry date.

Great to hear that your issue was sorted out and that Azamara have regained your confidence.

Hope you have a great journey home, glad you enjoyed your cruise - thanks for taking us along with you.

Don’t think it’s just Israel ports. It’s also the issue of the Houthi in Yemen who have attacked ships coming through the Red Sea.

It’s actually not that limited for main courses and the daily specials are often very good. Starters and desserts are limited - starters are either soup or a make your own salad - but as at lunchtime you can go into Windows to fetch a starter and/or dessert.

Same price for Suite guests

Current promotion is the Experience More Essentials package which includes $300 Excursion OBC, Wifi for one device, & the Premium drinks package for both people

Of course it’s only In FAQs, I can’t see any mention of it in the Ts & Cs, but it does say ‘for any reason’.

I found that exact wording on the UK site under Booking FAQs in the Pricing section.

Glad you liked Sibenik, we loved it too and as you say the sail in and out is amazing.

We did it for our last two cruises using this method.

Yes usually that’s fine, but in a few places you need to show your Azamara pass that comes with the digital guest booklet in order to get on the dock. We had to show ours to get onto the Marina in Dubai last year.

You should get a digital guest booklet by email if you booked direct. If you booked through a TA then they need to ask Azamara for it.

French75 is one of my favourites too!

Thanks for posting that Phil. Certainly is food for thought!

Thanks dtagirl & fruitmachine. Both sets of information added to the spreadsheet.

13 days I’ve added the details to the spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pEoojQ5-EPmD4cI3gw1dVcYfYTXfZePdDXxU09l0H3M/edit

Great photos & lovely to hear how much you are enjoying your cruise. Thanks for the wine tips - I’ll look out for that white wine.

We’ve just got the upgrade bid offer. We’re in a CC Suite and to upgrade to a Spa they want a minimum of £1160 a head. The current difference between a CC Suite and a Spa Suite is over £2000 a head, so that sounds reasonable. We’re not bidding as we’re very happy with the cabin we have.

Try emailing the CEO at dondra.ritzenthaler@azamara.com or the loyalty manager at erin.odonnell@azamara.com

It’s all about the market - when they have very few empty cabins they don’t need to sell them off cheaply, but when they have a lot of higher level cabins left they will sell them off cheaply to open up cheaper cabins that they can sell more easily. I have no problem with that. I make sure I book a cabin that I am happy with - if I can get a cheap upgrade, that’s great, but if not I’m happy!

And you also get whatever the current promotion is - in the UK it’s currently 20% off plus the Essentials Experience more package - and you get extra OBC for booking onboard

Not sure if it’s one of the Atlas Bar cocktails, but I love a “Mumbai Hug” (lemony with ginger).

We were invited to bid in February, and didn’t get the email about being successful until 2 days before the cruise