Azamarajunkie

Agree wholeheartedly with UK Tog, it can easily be done on your own. After our first visit there by Cruise ship, we have twice stayed in Monemvasia for a couple of days on our yearly land tour of The Peloponnese. If you're feeling energetic and are reasonably fit, then the climb up to the top of the old town offers great views. If you walk through to the end of the town by the Hotel Malvasia there is a bar that sell excellent fresh Lemonade.

Thanks for the reply, Rooibos now packed in the suitcase. We join Ovation next Saturday so looking forward to warmer climes. In the past on Odyssey I used to make my tea at the early risers facility in the Observation lounge before breakfast so will go armed with Rooibos teabag this year.

I regularly drink Rooibos (Redbush) tea, can anyone confirm or otherwise whether this is available on Ovation, or should I bring my own?

Currently on Journey, Schweppes Light and Canada Dry light tonic freely in use. Our fridge has been stocked well with Schweppes Tonic since we boarded 3 weeks ago by our able butler Angelo.

212 on board Journey this week, not sure about the Greek Health Officer but masks are mostly being worn so far with the odd rebel.

Just joined the Journey in Athens today with LFT test from Chronomics which was done at 4pm yesterday and printed out resultant certificate from their lab. Certificate was scrutinised at check in and accepted without issue. We used the same provider on our recent Onward maiden voyage again without any issues There were a lot of people having tests done at check in.

Yes, we read that too, however looking at my Azamara Guest Ticket booklet for my upcoming cruise clearly states “The negative test result must be from a test laboratory or a licensed testing site. At-home or self-testing kits without a test certificate are not accepted.” Chronomics provide a test certificate which we had printed out and used for our recent Onward cruise without difficulty. We will use this again as planned. We have a fall back of taking one at our hotel if more reliable information to the contrary becomes available. What is not clear from the posts made on Facebook is whether the Athens boarding check in staff are using the 24hour rule or previous day rule to refuse the test. The original poster did not give the reason why her test was not valid. We have our fingers crossed!

We stayed in The Alex last September whilst on our land tour of Greece. We had to do Lateral Flow tests for our return to the UK which the receptionist kindly printed out for us when we received the email results from our test provider (Chronomics). We are staying again at The Alex prior to joining the Journey in 3 weeks time and will be doing our pre boarding LFT there.