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Azura Cruise Review to Europe

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 42

Overall rating:

4.8 out of 5
Azura

Central Mediterranean

Sail date: June 29, 2019

Ship: Azura

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

From Southampton July 29th - really hot weather in the Med - fantastic at night on board ship watching the sunset in 28 degrees! Smooth crossing with not a rough patch all fortnight. Love to do it all again!

Embarkation

5 out of 5
20 mins from leaving the Holiday Inn we were in in our cabin.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Buffet was first class, absolutely loads of choice and all cooked perfectly

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
We’re not into swimming or going into the pool but it certainly looked great fun

Entertainment

4 out of 5
Quite poor compared to Ventura last year. The Tina Turner tribute was dreadful but thankfully the entertainment on board was saved by a couple of really good singing entertainers.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Couldn’t fault the staff, polite and hard working

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Ship was fantastic, spotless in all areas despite refit due next April.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Cabin was lovely, nice and clean with a great sunny balcony but the air con unit outside the door in the corridor was proven to be a bit too noisy at night. Had to buy ear plugs - problem solved!

Ship tip

Book it - it’s great

Ports of call

Cadiz (Spain)

5 out of 5
Lovely place, walked straight off the ship.

Barcelona, Spain

4 out of 5
Great cosmopolitan atmosphere but too crowded for my liking.

Florence/Pisa

5 out of 5
20 mins Walk from the coach parking in hot sunshine absolutely drained me but worth the visit. Take comfy shoes and water in warm weather

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

4 out of 5
Stayed local, not much to see but at least you get off ship.

Cartagena, Spain

5 out of 5
Gorgeous place, plenty shops and lovely harbour - my favourite stop off from this cruise

Gibraltar (U.K.)

5 out of 5
Shops shops and shops, no time for anything more as we only had four hours off ship.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Easy .. found our suitcases in less than 5 mins, picked our car up from CPS (Highly recommend using) and on our way home within 10 minutes
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4 Comments

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing you cruise with us.

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing you cruise with us.

anoceanlife    5 years ago

We were on the same cruise and agree with your review. Entertainment was lacking due to strictly theme but we booked for itinary. Fly rights were good and the take that singers also a couple of good shows. Over all we loved the cruise and the Azura

dengage    5 years ago

You should of complained about the aircon as we are light sleepers, had a similar problem on a Princess ship. 😕

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