As previous Azamara Club Cruises guests we knew what we hoped to expect on this cruise and we were not disappointed. The cruiseline delivered an excellent experience overall, both in terms of the on board and off board experiences.

Departing from our usual approach, we opted to have our flights through the cruiseline due to a free flights and night pre cruise offer from Azamara. On these boards, we were warned by several that this was a mistake, we would be booked on terrible flights, with impossible connections and would sleep in a remote lower standard hotel. How wrong this was, excellent flights with exactly the connection times we like through Heathrow, with our favourite airline and a night in the Hilton Athens with significant breakfast included. Absolutely no complaints at all, even though we missed our connection on the way home, 90% travellers arriving in Heathrow last Friday missed theirs and like them, we were automatically rebooked to the next flight.

It was good that our luggage was taken direct from our rooms at the hotel to our room onboard the ship by a separate van, meaning we did not have any handling issues at the port and embarkation was so easy as a result. Read more