Our party of two couples booked Azamara Journey for a Baltic cruise because we wanted an upper tier cruise line, and because Journey was scheduled for three days in St. Petersburg which would allow us to do a one day trip to Moscow on the middle day. Journey provided us a good, but not great experience and allowed us to take our Moscow excursion, which was great. Consequently, we essentially met our objectives.

As a point of reference, our comments on our Azamara experience are in the context of a comparison with Seabourn, where we have previously cruised, and where we are booked again.

Our embarkation process was anything but smooth. Even on the morning of embarkation we were on the internet from our hotel (Marriott Courtyard Stockholm, very good) trying to locate the exact berth of Journey. We ultimately determined the Terminal, but not the berth, and set out on a taxi search for the ship. Read more