SunnyNy Posted Thursday at 10:10 AM #1 Share Posted Thursday at 10:10 AM 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc Posted Thursday at 10:28 AM #2 Share Posted Thursday at 10:28 AM Definitely on Intensive France 3rd to 13th September on Onward 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjfan417 Posted Thursday at 12:20 PM #3 Share Posted Thursday at 12:20 PM We had them in Norway and Iceland in July/August on Onward. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PirateWife Posted Thursday at 01:22 PM #4 Share Posted Thursday at 01:22 PM Some are relevant to the itinerary; some are relevant to the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExArkie Posted Thursday at 01:25 PM #5 Share Posted Thursday at 01:25 PM 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JK300 Posted Thursday at 05:19 PM #6 Share Posted Thursday at 05:19 PM 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatnix Posted Thursday at 05:52 PM #7 Share Posted Thursday at 05:52 PM (edited) 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sczcardfan Posted Thursday at 06:01 PM #8 Share Posted Thursday at 06:01 PM 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrodsfan Posted yesterday at 07:03 AM #9 Share Posted yesterday at 07:03 AM 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackdogmolly Posted 8 hours ago #10 Share Posted 8 hours ago 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandma Cruising Posted 7 hours ago #11 Share Posted 7 hours ago We had some lectures on our Spain Intensive on Onward which we finished on Thursday 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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