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Azamara Journey Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean
12 Night Best Of Holy Lands (Athens To Istanbul)
Sail date: September 29, 2015
Ship: Azamara Journey
Cabin type: Oceanview
Cabin number: 4028
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 9 years ago
Review summary
We had a FANTASTIC time on this trip. The crew of the Journey reminds me of what cruising used to be. Impeccable service delivered by happy crew. Most important, and lost on the other guys, is the ATTITUDE of the ENTIRE staff. Never an excuse (and really never a reason for one). Ship is clean and neat. The decor could use an "update" in style (kinda oldish for me). Ports of call were UNBELIEVABLE. This is NOT a party ship. All live entertainment and bars were closed a bit past 11pm. A main show, guitar player and piano man who both had overdone sound tracks to cover for their playing. But because the ports were SOOOOO intensive, we really did not care.
Would go again in a flash. The included drinks (and boy did the drinks flow - and WITHOUT ANY signature needed), and included tips really make this line compete quite affordabally with other higher end lines.
Easy on and easy off. Very few lines for anything. Food was top notch, all the time.
AND..... ATTITUDE (listen up other lines) was positive, happy, upbeat, and NO EXCUSES or B.S. - ever!!!
Happy to answer specific questions. This was our 15th cruise on 8 lines.
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Book thru a TA, they have some great incentives for Azamara
Ports of call
Paphos, Cyprus
Kas, Turkey
Lindos, Greece
Dikili, Turkey