After a gap of a year, we returned from our "home away from home" the Azamara Journey to make a much looked forward to visit to India and Sri Lanka. This was to be our seventh Azamara cruise and our fifth successive trip on Journey. We had chosen this cruise because although those countries were very much on our bucket lists, we had some reservations about doing a land based adventure for our first visits.

We always now do our own flights and pre/post cruise bookings. We flew with British Airways who again turned out to be excellent carriers, we regularly transit Heathrow so are very happy using them. Our pre cruise hotel for two nights was the Hilton Jumeirah Beach and post cruise we stayed a further night in Singapore in the Ritz Carlton.

We had not been on Journey since its dry dock and we were pleasantly surprised at how much we liked the changes, even though others have expressed concern that they were less than they would have liked to see. Our view is, just like in your home, your wish list is always longer than your budget will allow and we think Azamara made some sound rationing choices, not least of all by looking after their hard working crew. The ship is in very good shape and was spotlessly clean all cruise long. Read more