LoneMoose

Fair Play, I agree that this has generated more comments than I anticipated and with none of the battles that might have ensued! I am perfectly comfortable dressing as we always have but I was reluctant to give advice to friends/family about the level of dressy vs. casual. I was afraid that if they took the dress code to mean resort casual and purchased new things to comply, then ended up with really casual like on our Norway cruise, they would be sticking pins in a voodoo doll in my likeness! So I asked what others have noticed. I think what we can conclude is that things are more casual everywhere, cruises to certain countries may be even more casual, but that everyone should be comfortable with what you’ve chosen to wear. If it feels as if you’re overdressed, then don’t wear it. If it feels as if you’ll be looked down upon, then don’t wear it. We also pack in a carry-on size suitcase although we check our bags. I love the freeing feeling of letting all my baggage go. It’s never been lost (or at least not for long) and I have a credit card. On that recent cruise, we met a woman who had (if I heard her right) brought only three shirts, and then lost one in the laundry. We saw her many times during the cruise and I never thought she looked out of place and I never noticed that she was wearing the same thing over again. While I don’t want to spend THAT much time in the laundry, I admire that she could do it. We might all need to remember that no one else notices what you’re wearing as much as you do. Unless it’s a bathrobe to the buffet.😁\\

So true, and it would make packing light a bit easier! But some women can pull it off and I…look like I’m about to clean out the garage.😆

We were on a recent cruise and noticed that people were dressed more casually than we’ve seen in the past. Azamara has never been fancy, but we’ve always been right in line if we packed resort casual clothes. This time, it was noticeably more casual: LOTS of jeans and sweatshirts, although I only saw one pair of ripped jeans and not in the dining room (where it isn’t allowed anyway). Realizing that this was on a summer cruise (children on board!) and it was in Norway (more casual and active than a cruise in the Med for example), I’m wondering if this is an overall shift in casualness from resort casual to casual-casual. This casualness extended to the main dining room and specialties as well: everything was a notch down in terms of dressiness. We were also on two cruises last fall in much warmer climates and there seemed to be a trend to more casual, although someone on this forum attributed it to a large proportion of cruisers from a very casual country, meaning that there could be different factors at play. Our next trip will probably be trans Atlantic, so that could be totally different. What have you recent cruisers observed? I think if I was giving advice to first time AZ cruisers, I would not advise resort casual but rather “casual but nice” but I’m interested to hear what your experiences have shown.

We took a private tour with Rammuni Tours a few months ago (Dec. 2022). We got to see a lot of animals (elephants, water buffalo, monkeys, crocodile, lots of exotic birds). Our guide, however, struggled with English and seemed rather put out that we paid in $20 dollar bills. (He wanted to be paid in 100s which we don’t carry and the Azamara ATM doesn’t dispense.) The driver we had was excellent, finding most of the animals. We were in a Jeep and the “roads” in the park were very rough: rutted and pot holes, many filled with water and mud. While most of our clothes came clean afterwards, one of DH’s shirts still has mud stains from the splashing. So wear your least favorite clothes! Finally, and this has nothing to do with our particular tour, the taxi union in Sri Lanka has a stranglehold on the the port and private tour vehicles were not allowed inside the port gate (buses for ship excursions were allowed in). The gate was about 2 miles from where we were berthed so it would have been an impossible walk for one of our participants and a long hot one for all of us. Luckily, as we started walking, a van of reporters who were leaving insisted that we get into their van for a ride to the gate. So if I was booking another private tour, I would get specific details about how you are going to be picked up and what arrangements they will make to shuttle you to the pick-up point. I don’t think the line of taxis waiting to be hired for a tour were willing to get out of line to transport us to the gate.

Thank you for asking the question! And the explanation that Scots Caz gave clarifies the question for those who are not loyalty members. However, the Circle combined benefits chart has the same wording (this for CC suites at Discoverer level): 100% towards a full voyage unlimited packageor330 free Wi-Fi minutes Since the chart defines the loyalty level and the cabin type, why would anyone opt for the limited number of minutes vs 100%? Or can the limited minutes be split between devices?

There is a roll call for this cruise and a few cruisers have tried to get tickets. You might get more feedback if you posted your question there.

That says it all. Hotel Director is a big, big job and Heike made it look easy with a warmth and sense of humor that we will miss. We will be eagerly awaiting news on what she has chosen. Best wishes, Heike, in whatever the future holds for you!

Many years ago (9?), we also got an upgrade on our first ever cruise on Azamara, from Veranda to CC suite. The strategy worked: we loved Azamara and we loved the suite. About half of our subsequent bookings have been in a suite. But that was before the bidding process and because our travel agent doesn’t participate, we never hope for an upgrade. We book the cabin we want to be in.