Azura Reviews

We had a nice cruise the ship was a little tired in places the crew were good the entertainment was average but overall we had a nice time

Everything you need. Choices of dining, pools for swimming. I had the cheapest cabin and there was plenty of room sharing with a friend. Best value for money holiday. Visited 4 islands.

Nice ship, bit dated Good itinerary The weather was great

Much improved over my taking the exact same cruise over Christmas/New year 2023/2024. A lot of mainteneace undertaken and food in Penisular much improved. Good to see proper thickness bread so no crisp bread as toast

First time cruise and hopefully the first of many. We arrived at Manchester Airport and checking in was really easy at ge P&O designated area. Our flight left on time and once we arrived at Tenerife south airport and queued to go through passport control we didn’t have long to wait to get our luggage. That’s when we got lost as not sure where to go outside the airport. Oh arrival it would be much better if there was a member of P & O staff in the area immediately outside to direct passengers to the waiting coaches. We boarded the coach after leaving our luggage with the coach driver. All good as the next time we saw our luggage it was about 2 hours after arriving at Azura outside the cabin. Please be aware that there’s quite a walk from the coaches to get on board the ship. Maybe because you’ve to go through security (quite rightly) prior to boarding. First impressions of the ship were very good albeit bigger than we expected. We went to our cabin anc dropped off our hand luggage first familiarising ourselves with what would be home for the next two weeks. We went to dinner after a quick fresh up as it had been a long day. We were allocated a table with 6 more diners and we have to admit the food was excellent and thankfully small portions as we were conscious of gaining weight. After getting back to our cabin and unpacking , plus our steward Briton introducing himself and saying to ask if we wanted anything. We immediately asked for extra coat hangers and some fresh milk the following day to make a coffee in the cabin. He brought a litre. We had taken a bag of ground coffee and a small cafeteria as mugs and a kettle are supplied. Briton was excellent and nothing was too much trouble if we asked for anything eg ice each day in the room. We slept like a log and didn’t waken till 10:10. Got up showered and went for breakfast in the buffet restaurant as we were too late for breakfast in the MDR. (Main dining room). After which we explored the ship more to familiarise ourselves but even after 2 weeks on board we still occasionally got lost. Lunch we had in the buffet and there was a good selection. We stuck to salad and in my case roll mop herrings. Delicious! And fresh. Dinner at night was again excellent in the MDR. We set sail about 10pm from Tenerife and we sailed all night and the following day and night on our journey to Madeira docking about 8am. The previous evening was formal night and we had booked the Epicurean restaurant which has a supplement of £35. We thought it was well worth the extra money although we’ve since heard that the price is going up to £42 so despite dining there three times on our 14 night voyage we don’t think it’s worth a 10% increase. It really was special seeing so many people in the atrium dressed up in ther finery. Anyone not wanting to be dressed up could dine in the buffet. There were 4 formal nights and we enjoyed every one of them. Funchal in Madeira if a favourite place of mine and it didn’t disappoint. My partner hadn’t been and he loved the experience and despite it only being one day there he was already looking forward to our return the following week when we departed about 22:00. Another night and day at sea was ahead as we sailed to Formentera. We weren’t impressed with what we saw of the area we docked and the town we walked around so returned to the ship for lunch. Our favourite places on the cruise were Madeira, La Palma and Gran Canaria. We will certainly be booking with P &O again as we thought it good value for money. Where next? Possibly Scandinavia. .

Nice ship. Cabin was clean. Shows good and headliners were brilliant. Only problem really was that bars stop selling coffee at 1900 hours so if tea total like us , the only place to get a drink after 1900 was the coffee shop.

Enjoyed our holiday. It was stress free. Have been on Azura before. Prefer to sail from Malta. Found Tenerife airport confusing and security was intimidating on the line i was in when going home. I had cause to use the Medical Centre who were all really helpful so well done Azura.

The size of the ship is great and easy to navigate your way around. A good choice of restaurants we didn’t have to queue for tables, in the restaurants the food was excellent, it arrived hot and quickly. However the buffet is not too great, choices are good for salads and quick snacks but hot food was always lukewarm. The pizza bar had brilliant Gluten free pizza on request, we had a short wait while it was freshly cooked, it was fantastic. All the staff are fantastic and very helpful. Lots of sundecks and sunbeds available. We didn’t go to a lot of the entertainments preferring to sit and chat with people we met on board. So I cannot comment. We did not shop either but there was a good selection.

We had no complaints about anything We worried about the number of passengers on board causing big queues for everything but this did not happen. Quality of everything was good and administration from getting to airport to getting to fly home again was precise

Beautiful ship