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  1. Thank you, I'm sure they will be fine for him. They flew out yesterday so to kate to rake his own. Happy Christmas 🎄
  2. We have grandchildren of a similar age and while I know they would love aspects of Azamara (food) there simply wouldn’t be enough, especially for the sports mad 11 year old, he would be happy with the table tennis but would want more activity. The one pool is fairly small and on a warm day will have 30-40 bobbing heads just cooling off. We usually have basic cabins on Azamara and while they are fine for 2, I can’t imagine being for 3, I’m surprised that Azamara seem to pushing family bookings more. Enjoy whatever you decide.
  3. Well we didn't bother, but each to their own.
  4. I’m sure it wouldn’t be a problem at all, we didn’t have alcohol in our fridge last time, but we still have a few bars of chocolate that we brought home 😀
  5. Hopefully a day room would be nice, I wonder if they will know on ship ? Can anyone confirm whether we will need adaptors for our 3 pin UK plugs please?
  6. I think if you pick your moments it shouldn’t be any problem, sea days the pool would be busier I would have thought. I would love the chance to line dance or do Zumba on Azamara, we miss the dance classes.
  7. We are booked on Viking Sky for a transatlantic, we know we are going to love it, hoping the weather is nice so we can enjoy pool area etc. We are flying home the same day as we arrive in Florida, can anybody advise what Viking do with passengers who have a late flight back to UK, we will have a transfer back to airport, but I was wondering what time they will make us leave the ship, I know in the good old days with previous cruise lines we would have the use of a hotel day room, any help appreciated.
  8. Thank you Catherine, yes like you I do like my food served hot, so will maybe ask when I’m ordering, Thank you for the detailed info on restaurants. kind regards Elizabeth
  9. Thank you again, good to know, I do find the vegetable offerings very small on other cruise lines so I will try asking for some. Thank you. Elizabeth
  10. Brilliant thank you so much, that clarifies several queries, you have put my mind at ease, so grateful to the people on this board who take the time to reply in such a detailed way. Now just to try and sort out some trips, there is 4 adults travelling together so will try and do taxis/ hire car where we can. many thanks and kind regards Elizabeth
  11. Thank you so much, that is great news about water etc, we are happy to drink any iced water, thank you for clarification also about gratuities. Im sure we will find the entertainment fine, if not we will have to make our own. kind regards Elizabeth
  12. Hi Sorry to hear you have had such a disappointing cruise, we have cruised once on NCL Epic and are sailing on star on Oct 3rd. We have got the free at sea, I have already been slightly disappointed to see the internet package is only a certain number of minutes, other cruise have usually been unlimited. Need to read small print more my mistake. Can I ask a few questions from more experienced NCL cruisers, I know there is a $20 a day service charge. If you have the free at sea ( we are in Uk) do you still have to pay a compulsory gratuity on the included drinks (free) and the two included speciality restaurants. Can you get bottled water as part of your drinks package ? We don’t drink tons of fizzy drinks. Can we refill our own water bottles anywhere with chilled water? Di they pour iced water in the dining rooms or do you have to buy bottled water if not included in package. On our only NCL cruise on Epic we thought entertainment was fabulous, so disappointing to hear it so poor now. We did find Epic a very Smokey ship as casino was in middle of ship and allowed smoking, I suspect Casino will be a no go area for us on this ship too. I am very surprised at how poor most of the reviews are for NCL, wish I had read more before booking, I would love to hear from anyone who has already done the around Ireland cruise for any info about the ports. Thank you in advance for any replies. Elizabeth
  13. Oh Sailor Jack it has been lovely to read your trip report, I have missed you since the demise of Ship Happens. Mu husband completely agrees about the shower.
  14. Yes Princess was docked out of town.
  15. On our recent Azamara cruise, we did mainly all Azamara excursions as we had a large shore excursion credit, they were generally adequate, with one or two major disappointments, one was the sting Ray encounter in Antigua and the trolley to the beach in St Lucia. I wouldn’t recommend either I of these. We have previously done a sting ray excursion in Grand Cayman which was far superior, this was a privately arranged excursion. The Trolley train was just a complete waste of an hour to get to a very dirty beach, we only had an hour there, very few even bothered to go into sea as not enough to dry off. The beach was actually very near to ship but the trolley took us all through a very busy port area plus the town, the people were all pleasant but everything else was disappointing. I fed back my disappointment, but nothing else really happened. we enjoyed the ships excursion to Virgin Gouda baths and a couple of snorkelling trips booked through the ship. The best excursion was river tubing in Dominica but it was a very long bus ride in a very old bus, which barely made it up the hills, we only got back to the ship 5 mins before all aboard time!!! But it was great fun.
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