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Sail Away

Review for the Western Mediterranean Cruise on Azura
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2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Apr 2012
Cabin: Outside Stateroom (Part Obstructed View)

From the moment we embarked the vibe was good the food was fantastic, the entertainment top notch. the entertainment team were really great, Neil Oliver who is the entertainment Director was a star particularly at the Sail Away which are obviously his forte!!Having said that the Captain was a real sport at our Gibraltar one and joined in with the entertainment team.

it was our first Western Med cruise and we learned few things...you cant get off the ship before 8am for the shuttle for Rome so its no good getting up at the crack of dawn like us. You can buy your tkt before you get to the station and the earliest train you can get to Rome is 8 40. Get off at San Pietro NOT the terminus then you can do the Vatican first. Make your way from St Peters to the Colosseum and termini to return (you might get a seat) this is much cheaper than the tours on offer. Queue at The Palatine for your tkts it is generally a shorter queue but to be honest we did Palatine and The Forum and that was all we had time for really, you makes yiur choice. There was a train strike when we hit Livorno but we found a taxi who took 6 of us to pisa for 120E and waited an hr while we looked around. (still cheaper than the tour) the same for Gib we paid £22 or 25E ea to go in a taxi who took us all around the sights.

The food was fantastic, the staff excellent always helpful couldn't do enough.

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Outside Stateroom (Part Obstructed View)

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We were on Deck 8 midships. Really close to the amenties we only had to go down one floor and we were near the Atrium. I think I preferred that to being on a higher deck It was quiet didnt hear a thing at night. Slightly obscured view but it didnt bother us. Cabin itself was really good bathroom a bit on the snug side but again didnt bother us. It was quiet and when we did a a bit of a roll it wasnt as nocticeable in our cabin as higher in the ship.

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