Azamara Journey Review

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Amsterdam, Vlissingen, Bruges, London, Rouen

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ronbetty2001
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: May 2012
Cabin: Club Veranda Stateroom

This is one of my only ship reviews I have posted, I am very active on the roll call boards, but never felt the need to comment on a cruise ship before now. We sailed on the Journey for a 12 night sailing. The itinerary and the price was the main reason for doing this trip. The Ports were Amsterdam, Vlissingen, Antwerp (3 nights), Bruges, London (docked off of Greenwich, 6 miles from London City) and Rouen, France (one hour train ride from Paris), disembarked at Southampton, England. This was our second time on Azamara, we had sailed on the Quest about 4 years ago doing the Best of Italy for 14 nights, wonderful is all I can say. We have sailed on Celebrity, Royal, Princess, NCL and Carnival before and we have enjoyed each cruise and each line as they are all different in their own ways. As you can see we haven't been loyal to anyone Cruise Line, we go for the itinerary and time of year. I keep looking into land tours but keep coming back to cruising as you don't have all that packing and unpacking. I must admit I now feel that Azamara is the best Cruise Line we have done to date. I have always said I don't care which cruise line we go on, but now I have to admit that Azamara is far and away the best of the best. I will now go out of my way to look for where they are going to see if it meets with our needs to travel with them again. We are in our early to mid-fifties at time of writing. So that all being said I'll go ahead and put down some of the things we enjoyed:

1. They serve a red and white wine at lunch and dinner, complimentary. Now you'll say it's included in the price of the cruise, well at the deal we got I'd have to say no.

2. Mosaics is the specialty coffee house on deck 5, also complimentary. They had cookies, finger sandwiches etc. to munch on. Great place to meet before exiting the ship, if you're not tendering you disembark on Deck 5. Tenders exit on Deck 4.

Cabin Review

Club Veranda Stateroom

Cabin V2

We stayed on the Journey and had Cabin 6068, class: V2. The cabin is Mid-ship on the Port side of Deck 6 and was very quiet. Liked the convenience of being on deck six. The ship docked in every port but one and you exit/enter the ship from deck 5 when docked. The main dinning room is also on Deck 5. The next important deck is deck 9. We never had to wait long for an elevator. As far as the cabin itself, it is a typical Balcony of an "R" class ship, maybe around 170 square feet with a balcony. The balcony is about 4.5' wide and had two plastic chairs and a small glass top table. The view is unobstructed. The cabin had enough storage space and wooden hangers. The bathroom is small but had just enough shelves etc. for a 2 week cruise. Everything in the cabin worked and was in my opinion was in vary good condition with a comfortable bed and pillows.

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