Does Azamara still have guest lecturers?

[SunnyNy]

I had always enjoyed the guest lecturers on Azamara cruises, but they were not present on my last few (2021-2022).  I assumed it was a casualty of the post-pandemic cost cutting.  Has anyone had a recent cruise with lecturers aboard?  I recently returned from a Windstar cruise where a lecturer gave a series of great lectures relevant to our itinerary, so apparently it's still a thing on some lines and I'm hoping Azamara has resumed them.

[manc]

Definitely on Intensive France 3rd to 13th September on Onward 

[wjfan417]

We had them in Norway and Iceland in July/August on Onward.

[PirateWife]

Some are relevant to the itinerary; some are relevant to the world.

[ExArkie]

Any rationale as to which cruises have them and which don’t? We are on the Journey transatlantic starting from Lisbon in about a week and a half, and I just assumed for a trip with only one port in nine days, there would be no guest lecturers. No factual basis for said assumption, just an impression I got from discussions on the talks being mostly about the ports. 

[JK300]

3 hours ago, ExArkie said:

Any rationale as to which cruises have them and which don’t? We are on the Journey transatlantic starting from Lisbon in about a week and a half, and I just assumed for a trip with only one port in nine days, there would be no guest lecturers. No factual basis for said assumption, just an impression I got from discussions on the talks being mostly about the ports. 

I think it is the opposite, you will have lectures on board, one way to keep passengers 'busy'. 😅

John

[beatnix]

This July, our 9th cruise with Azamara, was the first with no lecturer. Maybe because it was port intensive with no sea day. 

On Westafrica cruise last year we had 3 lecturers with different focus.

Edited Thursday at 05:53 PM by beatnix

[sczcardfan]

7 hours ago, SunnyNy said:

I had always enjoyed the guest lecturers on Azamara cruises, but they were not present on my last few (2021-2022).  I assumed it was a casualty of the post-pandemic cost cutting.  Has anyone had a recent cruise with lecturers aboard?  I recently returned from a Windstar cruise where a lecturer gave a series of great lectures relevant to our itinerary, so apparently it's still a thing on some lines and I'm hoping Azamara has resumed them.

There was a lecturer onboard for the Spain Intensive cruise I was on last year.

[harrodsfan]

We have a dear friend, a world renowned archeologist, wonderful lecturer, kwho was a port lecture on a back to back Azamara cruise we took a few years ago. She has traveled with many cruise lines doing this. She said Azamara treated her the very worst. Horrible tiny cabin. She would not do it again. 

[Mackdogmolly]

We had very few lectures on our just ending B2B Spain and France intensive cruises. Probably because there were no sea days. On our Antarctica cruise last February there were many lectures and many sea days.

[Grandma Cruising]

We had some lectures on our Spain Intensive on Onward which we finished on Thursday