Azamara Journey Review

Azamara: Catchy Name

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Sail Date: Apr 2008

Azamara Journey Cruise-- April 8 to April 25, 2008 AZAMARA is rather a catchy name. We like Atlantic crossings with the great and many days at sea. So, we decided to take the Azamara Journey from Miami the 9th of April.. Being from California, we had to fly in the day before and had a nice day in Miami. On the 9th we headed for the ship about 12:30 pm to check in. The people at the check-in counters were very pleasant and it took just a few minutes and we were on the ship. We could get our cabins at 2 pm, so we went up top for lunch. They had three names for the various eating spots up there--Breeza, Windows-and I can't remember the other one, so I just call it the Lido. The food didn't look too great at the buffet, so we had a hot dog outside, with wonderful French-fries and fresh fruit. At 1:30 pm, somebody announced that the cabins were ready for occupancy, so down we went.

We had a cabin with balcony on the 7th deck and right in the middle of the ship--a perfect location. When we walked in, we found our cabin to be medium size, nicely decorated but with a very small bathroom. The brochure promised us fresh fruit and fresh flowers. There were neither, but about the third day of the cruise the flowers appeared followed by an orange, an apple and a very hard pear. A young lady from Eastern Europe popped in and announced that she was our BUTLER!, which was about the last we saw of her except when she would deliver the ship's newspaper about 10:30 pm. I finally made her understand that putting the paper under the door was more desirable than pounding on the door and coming into the cabin.

In addition to this "Butler" there was a male attendant, who was far from the brightest bulb on the tree, and they worked in teams. He told me they had up to 34 cabins to attend to every day. So you can see that the ship was very understaffed, not only in cabin attendants but waiters and deck persons as well. The second morning we went to breakfast in the main dining room at 7:45 am and no waiter approached us, so after waiting 45 minutes we left. Anyway, we asked if it was possible to have our cabin made up between 8:30 am and 10 am. Sometimes it was cleaned in those times, but most often it was as late as noon. Several days we just told them to skip it and give us clean towels The cabin was comfortable. However, the lights, after dark, were very dim so there was no reading in bed.

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