woodlander1

We have just disembarked after 42 days in a verandah cabin deck 6 on the first 3 legs of the world cruise. It was our first Azamara cruise for nearly 7 years so we were a little apprehensive that standards would have dropped. We can happily say that all was really good & Azamara fits the bill perfectly for us still. Staff excellent as always, food offerings good, for us Prime C had the edge over Aqualina but both great. Some super entertainment as well. Yes the bathrooms are on the small side but how long do you spend in there - worked fine for us. No hesitation in going again which we are next year!

I also had this email - interesting marketing. I would definitely fall into the work & wander category- taking my laptop & suitable paraphernalia to enable me to keep in touch with work. Not sure what is being offered as an “extra” to make this over and above what many people already do.

Hope you can get this sorted 🤞

Hmmmm - hindsight is a wonderful thing!

Well up until now our account has been pretty ok. It even showed that we had paid to upgrade to the indulgence package for each of our 3 B2Bs. Couldn’t book excursions online with OBC but I have rung up and it has been sorted. However I logged in today and our upgrade to indulgence is not showing 🤨. Another phone call coming up 🙄🙄. I don’t have any proof that we have paid for it other than our credit card statement so hope that there’s a record of it somewhere on the system. 🤞 It shouldn’t be this hard Azamara …………

Agree it’s not really fit for purpose. Well I guess we could arrive at guest relations & find the excursions we have booked are full. 🤞they are showing as booked on our account if that counts for anything but will have to cross that bridge when we get there. Makes a bit of a nonsense of the whole system. We bought the upgraded package to get the excursion OBC & other benefits. Will have to re think that strategy if they are not going to let you use the OBC in advance to pay for excursions. The same principle must apply if you wanted to use the spa credit to pre book a treatment etc. 🤪🤪

I am posting about my experience re OBC & using it for shore excursions. I am UK based and we had a $300 OBC credit as part of our booking promotion. We have also upgraded to the Indulgence package which gives an additional $700 OBC. So $1000 in total. I have been unable to apply any of our OBC to the excursions I have booked on the web site so rang the UK number for Azamara. Eventually got through to Kansas, US! Very helpful assistance - so we went through each of our bookings and she could apply the $300 OBC but not the additional $700. The upgraded $700 does not become “live” until we board the ship so we have to go to guest relations and ask them to apply it to cover the additional cost of the excursions. As we are doing B2B I guess that the $700 will only become available at the start of each leg. 🤔 A point to note she could not even apply the $300 to the last cruise as the final payment date is still 17 days away. So I will have to call again at the beginning of November to get the last bit sorted out. She also had the complications of currency exchange - OBC in $ but excursions in £. To be honest the assistant was helpful but it’s a very cumbersome system and there should be some notice saying you can’t use OBC until after final payment date and upgraded packages can only be used once on board. Perhaps there is but I haven’t seen it. This element of the web site definitely needs some attention- a lot of people like to sort out excursions as part of the planning stage of their trip.

We have just pre - registered for our first Cunard transatlantic in 2025. Very exciting

We have booked today😀😀. B2B out of Dublin - we thought the itinerary was really interesting & places we’ve never been too.

Thank you for those insights - very helpful. I’ve finally found the Add ons available- looks like it’s around £760. Yes I’d forgotten the “specials” on laundry! thanks again- back to the spreadsheet!

Apologies if this has been asked previously….. We were given the Experience More Essentials package as part of an early booking bonus in 2022 for our trip in 2024. I’m just trying to do some sums as to what’s best for us on our trip as we will need additional internet, possibly upgrade drinks & laundry (I am not doing laundry on holiday😀) a bit of Spa & some sundries. If we were to upgrade from the Essentials package to the Indulgence package would we just pay the difference in price of the two packages which is currently $900? What do you budget per bag of laundry these days - $40/50? I also remember reading that to upgrade from the premium to ultimate drinks package was $7 per person per day but no loyalty discount was applicable. Is this still the case? Trying to work out the best way to go bearing in mind some loyalty discounts that will be available to us - we are Explorers at the moment but will move to Discoverer on the last leg of our trip. Any assistance gratefully received 👍

We are embarking on a Scenic cruise Lyon to Lyon in 2023 and we are just starting to think about flights etc. Can anyone advise where the Scenic river cruise port is and suggest any reasonable hotels (happy for a taxi ride to port) in Lyon for a pre-cruise stay. Thanks in anticipation