Satonthebalcony Cruise Review on Azura on Nov 02, 2018

Azura Cruise Review

Satonthebalcony

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Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 11

Overall rating:

5 out of 5

Sail date: November 02, 2018

Ship: Azura

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

The outbound Tui premium flight was excellent, not far from the experience of some Business class flights. Transfer and boarding were all very efficiently completed. The aft suite we had was very well presented and Clive our Steward and Malcom the Butler were exceptionally good in attending to our needs and requests. Breakfasts in the Epicurean were always a great start to the day. When we were onboard we always had lunch on our balcony and enjoyed the good food in the privacy of our own surroundings. We dined three time in the Epicurean and twice in Sindhu and enjoyed all the meals. We also visited the Beachhouse and the Glasshouse to eat. We visited the buffet only to browse for afternoon tea, but the food always looks very appealing. We partook in 7 P and O arranged trips. Two were very good trips on St Kitts and St Maarten, the remainder were mediocre at best apart from one which was poor. On Tortola the forest walk was led by I driver. To say he had a rudimentary knowledge is probably flattering. Whilst returning to the ship the driver had the habit of knocking his vehicle out of gear and coasting down the hill with only the brakes to retard the vehicle, not a good idea when the gradient is 20% and the smell of overheating brake pads is pervading the air. We did mention this to P and O tour guide later but she seemed totally disinterested, although she appeared to note our details we heard no more about it, so apathy ruled. The ship was clean and we saw the captain out and about several times, and at one point he stopped to chat to us. The staff were attentive and cheerful with only very few exceptions and we all have bad days! We did not partake in the entertainments but enjoyed occasionally visiting particularly Breakers bar and the Planet bar. On the negative side the claiming of sunbeds appeared to be a major issue. It did not affect us directly as we used the sunbeds on our balcony but as we are early birds and always around the ship early in the morning the amount of beds claimed by bags, books and towels was excessive. At one point we observed a cluster of 23 sunbeds all claimed but with not a single person sitting there. Staff seemed to be strategically ignoring the problem.

2 Comments

dengage 5 years ago

Sometimes you have to do what you have to do, if they are hoggers they can go and complain about it to reception 🤔

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dengage 5 years ago

We have come across this in several ships and made a point of moving towels after making crew aware of sun bed hogging but after nothing being done moved the items to another bed AFTER 30 minutes and made ourselves comfortable, when the people came back they complained to us so I put them straight about the 30 minute rule nothing more said.

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