First impressions of the Azura was that it was massive and the check-in was straight-forward and not much waiting around. The room was satisfactory in size and amenities but our 12-month old was soon to find another child's leftover chocolate buttons near the patio doors and chomped on them! We didn't say anything because we did not want to start off moaning about the cruise that had only just left dock. We were greeted with a little bowl of freesias and a bottle of champagne which we opened immediately and stood on the balcony looking forward to the rest of our holiday. We also had a complimentary box of chocolates to go with the champagne which went down really nicely.

Buffet breakfasts were a free-for-all with too many people wandering around looking for tables with trays of food and really sad faces that they couldn't find anywhere to sit. There were too many trying to help themselves at the buffet too with lots of 'oops sorry' or nothing at all when someone just decided to push in. Very very clean and everybody used the sanitizer to cleanse their hands before touching plates and food utensils. This was repeated at lunch time and evening buffet although these times seemed to flow easier with not that much over-crowding. On this note, we chose to go into the main restaurant where you are shown to your table and served breakfast of your choice. This was much easier for us as we have a baby who needed a high chair and a young son also, so getting up and down to the buffet to serve all of us was too much of a struggle in the rush hours.

My son loved the kids' club and I would also highly recommend this to all parents. Our baby could go with us into a play area but was too young to be looked after by any of the clubs apart from the nursery where he once went when he was asleep in his pushchair and we were given a pager for the staff to contact us if he woke up. That just gave us a bit of a chance to walk around the ship to get a feel of things. Read more