Before Cruising

• Travel Documents: Most Azamara itineraries require a valid passport book. Many countries also require passports to remain valid for at least six months beyond your travel dates. Review your itinerary carefully before departure.
• Visas & Entry Requirements: Depending on your itinerary, certain destinations may require visas, electronic travel authorizations, vaccinations, or other entry documentation. Review all requirements well before your departure date.
• Travel Insurance: Comprehensive travel insurance is strongly recommended, particularly for Azamara's international and destination-intensive itineraries. Coverage for medical emergencies, trip interruptions, baggage delays, and emergency transportation can provide valuable peace of mind.
• Research Your Destinations: Azamara is built around Destination Immersion®, with many itineraries featuring late departures, overnight stays, and extended time in port. Reviewing your destinations before sailing will help you make the most of your extra time ashore.
• Dress Code: Azamara maintains a country club casual atmosphere throughout the voyage. Formal nights are not held, allowing guests to dress comfortably while still enjoying an upscale cruise experience.
• Azamara Circle: Azamara's loyalty program rewards returning guests with exclusive events, onboard benefits, priority privileges, and special savings based on your membership level.
• Packing: Comfortable walking shoes are highly recommended, as many shore excursions involve walking through historic districts, museums, archaeological sites, and cobblestone streets.
• Carry-On Essentials: Pack medications, travel documents, valuables, electronics, and a change of clothes in your carry-on luggage. Checked baggage may not arrive in your stateroom until later in the afternoon.

Azamara App

• Your Cruise Companion: The Azamara App helps guests manage their voyage before and during their cruise, providing convenient access to reservations, onboard information, and daily activities.
• Before You Sail: Use the app or Azamara's website to complete online check-in, review travel documents, reserve shore excursions, purchase beverage packages, and prepare for embarkation.
• Once Onboard: The app provides access to your daily schedule, dining reservations, onboard account, deck plans, shore excursion information, and other voyage details throughout your cruise.
• Daily Planning: Review each day's activities, destination information, entertainment, lectures, and dining options to help plan your time both onboard and ashore.
• Excursion Management: Browse excursion descriptions, review meeting times, and manage many of your shore excursion reservations directly through the app.

Tipping / Gratuities

• Included Gratuities: Gratuities for your stateroom attendant, dining staff, and many onboard crew members are included in your Azamara cruise fare, allowing guests to enjoy their vacation without worrying about daily service charges.
• Additional Service Charges: Spa treatments, salon services, and certain premium purchases may include additional service charges where applicable.
• Shore Excursion Guides: While not required, many guests choose to tip local guides and drivers who provide exceptional service during shore excursions.
• Exceptional Service: Although never expected, guests may provide additional gratuities to crew members who consistently deliver outstanding personalized service throughout the voyage.

Embarking

• Online Check-In: Complete online check-in through the Azamara App or Azamara website before arriving at the terminal. During check-in you'll verify travel documents, receive your boarding information, and review embarkation details.
• Arrival Time: Arrive during your assigned embarkation window for the smoothest boarding experience. With fewer than 700 guests aboard each ship, embarkation is typically faster and more relaxed than on larger cruise ships.
• Carry-On Wine: Azamara permits guests to bring a limited quantity of personal wine onboard at embarkation. Review the current policy before sailing, as corkage fees may apply when consumed in specialty restaurants.
• Carry-On Essentials: Keep medications, travel documents, valuables, electronics, and a change of clothes with you. Checked luggage may not arrive in your stateroom until later in the afternoon.
• Embarkation Lunch: Casual dining venues are typically open shortly after boarding, providing a relaxing place to enjoy lunch while waiting for your stateroom to become available.
• Explore The Ship: Take time to familiarize yourself with the restaurants, lounges, spa, fitness center, pool deck, and other public spaces before sailaway.
• Airplane Mode: Switch your phone to Airplane Mode before sailing and connect only through the ship's Wi-Fi to avoid expensive international roaming charges.
• All-Aboard Time: Azamara strictly enforces all-aboard times at every port. Plan to return at least 30 to 60 minutes before the published departure time.

Cabin

• Comfortable Accommodations: Azamara staterooms feature premium bedding, flat-screen televisions, mini refrigerators, in-room safes, comfortable seating areas, generous storage, and elegant furnishings. Amenities vary by ship and cabin category.
• Stateroom Steward: Your steward services your accommodation each day and can assist with additional towels, pillows, blankets, ice, and other reasonable requests throughout your voyage.
• Room Service: Complimentary room service is available throughout the day, allowing guests to enjoy meals and refreshments from the comfort of their stateroom.
• Veranda & Suite Accommodations: Veranda staterooms and suites offer additional living space, private outdoor seating, and enhanced amenities, while suite guests receive a variety of upgraded services and exclusive benefits.
• Storage Space: Store luggage under the bed after unpacking to maximize available floor space and keep your stateroom organized throughout the cruise.
• Small-Ship Comfort: Azamara's ships emphasize personalized service and comfortable accommodations, creating an intimate atmosphere that's noticeably different from larger contemporary cruise ships.

On Deck

• Relaxed Atmosphere: Azamara's pool deck, lounges, and outdoor spaces are designed for relaxation, conversation, and enjoying the destinations rather than high-energy attractions or amusement-style entertainment.
• Pool & Sun Deck: Guests can enjoy the swimming pool, whirlpools, comfortable loungers, and attentive poolside service throughout the voyage.
• Fitness & Wellness: The onboard fitness center, spa, salon, and wellness facilities provide opportunities to stay active or unwind between ports.
• Chair Etiquette: Azamara asks guests not to reserve loungers for extended periods without using them. During busy times, unattended belongings may be removed to make seating available for other guests.
• White Night: One of Azamara's signature events, White Night is an elegant outdoor evening celebration featuring live entertainment, a lavish buffet, and guests dressed in white while dining under the stars when weather and itinerary permit.
• Intimate Ships: With fewer than 700 guests aboard, Azamara's ships offer a quieter atmosphere, shorter waits, and more personalized service than many larger cruise lines.

Dining

• Open Seating: Azamara offers open seating in its main dining room, allowing guests to dine when and with whom they choose rather than following assigned dining times.
• Specialty Restaurants: Prime C Steakhouse and Aqualina are Azamara's signature specialty restaurants, offering premium dining experiences for an additional charge. Reservations are recommended.
• Main Dining: Discoveries Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner with menus featuring regional specialties inspired by the destinations visited throughout the voyage.
• Casual Dining: Windows Café, The Patio, and other casual venues provide relaxed indoor and outdoor dining throughout the day.
• Dietary Requests: Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and many other dietary needs can usually be accommodated. Notify Azamara before sailing whenever possible and remind your dining team once onboard.
• Reservations: Specialty restaurant reservations are available before and during your voyage. Booking early provides the greatest selection of dining times.

Food & Beverage

• Included Dining: Azamara's cruise fare includes the main dining room, Windows Café, The Patio, room service, and several casual dining venues. Menus emphasize fresh ingredients and regional cuisine inspired by the destinations visited during your voyage.
• Included Beverages: House spirits, international beers, a selection of wines, soft drinks, bottled water, specialty coffees, and standard cocktails are included throughout your cruise, allowing most guests to enjoy beverages without additional charges.
• Specialty Coffee: Espresso beverages, cappuccinos, lattes, premium teas, and specialty coffee drinks are available throughout the ship and are included with your cruise fare.
• Regional Cuisine: Menus frequently incorporate local flavors and ingredients inspired by the destinations on your itinerary, providing another way to experience the cultures you'll be visiting.
• Late-Night Dining: Casual dining venues and room service provide convenient options for guests wishing to enjoy lighter meals or snacks later in the evening.

Included Beverages

• Already Included: One of Azamara's most popular benefits is its generous beverage program, which includes a wide selection of house wines, beers, standard spirits, cocktails, bottled water, soft drinks, coffee, and tea throughout the voyage.
• Excellent Value: Many guests find the included beverage selection more than adequate, eliminating the need to purchase an upgraded beverage package.

Ultimate Beverage Package

• Premium Selection: The Ultimate Beverage Package upgrades your experience with premium spirits, luxury cocktails, reserve wines, Champagne, craft beers, and additional top-shelf beverage selections beyond those already included in your cruise fare.
• Best For: Guests who regularly enjoy premium brands, reserve wines, or luxury spirits throughout the day may find the Ultimate Beverage Package offers worthwhile value over Azamara's already generous complimentary beverage program.

Destination Immersion

• More Time In Port: Destination Immersion® is Azamara's signature approach to cruising. Many itineraries feature extended port stays, late-evening departures, and overnight visits that allow guests to experience destinations long after most cruise ships have departed.
• Overnight Stays: Select voyages remain docked overnight in major cities, giving guests the opportunity to enjoy local restaurants, nightlife, cultural performances, and attractions that are unavailable during traditional daytime port visits.
• AzAmazing Evenings®: On select voyages, Azamara hosts complimentary cultural events showcasing local music, dance, history, or traditions, providing guests with memorable experiences unique to their destination.
• Smaller Ports: Azamara's intimate ships can often visit ports inaccessible to larger cruise vessels, allowing guests to explore lesser-known destinations alongside many of the world's most popular cities.
• Independent Exploration: With more time ashore than many cruise lines, guests have greater flexibility to explore independently, dine locally, or simply experience each destination at a relaxed pace.

Onboard Planning & Reservations

• Azamara App: Use the Azamara App to review your itinerary, onboard account, dining reservations, shore excursions, daily activities, and other voyage information throughout your cruise.
• Destination Lectures: Enrichment programs, guest speakers, destination briefings, and cultural presentations help guests better understand the history, culture, and traditions of the places they'll be visiting.
• Spa Appointments: Sea days are generally the busiest at Sanctum Spa. Booking treatments early in the voyage or selecting a port day often provides the greatest availability.
• Daily Program: Review the daily schedule each evening to organize the following day's excursions, dining, enrichment activities, entertainment, and onboard events.
• Relaxed Schedule: Azamara intentionally avoids overcrowding the daily schedule, allowing guests to enjoy both the ship and each destination without feeling rushed.

Ports / Shore Excursions

• Destination First: Azamara's itineraries are carefully designed to maximize time ashore, with many voyages featuring overnight stays, late departures, and fewer sea days than traditional cruises.
• Shore Excursions: Guests can choose from a wide variety of guided excursions including cultural experiences, culinary tours, historical sites, active adventures, and small-group experiences led by knowledgeable local guides.
• Country-Intensive Voyages: Many Azamara itineraries spend extended time exploring a single region or country, allowing guests to experience destinations in greater depth than typical cruise itineraries.
• Independent Exploration: Extended port calls make it easy to enjoy museums, restaurants, shopping, and local attractions on your own while still returning comfortably before departure.
• Return Early: Even with Azamara's generous port times, always return at least 30 to 60 minutes before the published all-aboard time, as ships cannot delay departure for late-arriving guests.

Casino

• Intimate Casino: Each Azamara ship features a small casino with slot machines, blackjack, roulette, poker, and other popular table games while sailing in international waters.
• Relaxed Atmosphere: Unlike larger contemporary cruise lines, Azamara's casino is designed as a quiet entertainment venue that complements the ship's upscale, destination-focused atmosphere rather than serving as a major onboard attraction.
• Gaming Hours: Casino operations are generally limited to times when the ship is outside territorial waters and comply with local regulations.
• Onboard Account: Eligible gaming transactions may be charged directly to your onboard account, providing a convenient cashless gaming experience.

Wi-Fi / Internet Access

• Included Wi-Fi: Complimentary Wi-Fi is included with every Azamara cruise, allowing guests to browse the web, check email, use social media, and stay connected throughout their voyage.
• Performance: Internet speeds vary depending on your ship's location, weather conditions, and the number of guests online. Basic browsing, messaging, and email generally perform well, while streaming quality may vary.
• Azamara App: Use the Azamara App to access your daily schedule, reservations, onboard account, and voyage information throughout your cruise.
• Included Value: Complimentary Wi-Fi is one of several amenities included with your cruise fare, reducing the number of extra charges commonly found on many other cruise lines.
• Airplane Mode: Keep your mobile devices in Airplane Mode while at sea and connect only through the ship's Wi-Fi to avoid expensive international roaming charges.

Complimentary Extras

• Included Beverages: House wines, international beers, standard spirits, cocktails, bottled water, soft drinks, specialty coffees, and teas are included throughout your cruise.
• Included Gratuities: Gratuities for your stateroom attendant, dining staff, and many onboard crew members are included with your cruise fare, simplifying onboard expenses.
• White Night: Weather permitting, guests are invited to Azamara's signature White Night celebration featuring live entertainment, an elaborate outdoor buffet, and an evening of dining and dancing under the stars.
• Destination Enrichment: Guest speakers, destination briefings, cultural presentations, and enrichment programs help guests gain a deeper appreciation of the regions they visit.
• Destination Immersion®: Extended port stays, overnight visits, and late departures are included on many itineraries, giving guests significantly more time to experience each destination than on traditional cruises.
• Wi-Fi: Complimentary Wi-Fi is included, allowing guests to stay connected throughout the voyage without purchasing a separate internet package.

Disembarking

• Express Departure: Guests carrying all of their own luggage may choose Express Departure, allowing them to leave the ship as soon as local authorities clear the vessel.
• Standard Departure: Guests placing luggage outside their stateroom the night before departure receive luggage tags with an assigned departure group. Wait comfortably in the designated public area until your group is called.
• Final Morning: Enjoy breakfast before leaving the ship, review your onboard account one final time, and make sure you've collected all personal belongings from your stateroom.
• Customs & Immigration: Many cruise terminals now use facial recognition technology to speed arrival processing for eligible travelers. Guests traveling with passports often experience the quickest processing.
• Ground Transportation: Whether using Azamara transfers, ride-share services, taxis, rental cars, or personal vehicles, review your transportation plans before leaving the terminal to help ensure a smooth trip home.
• Before You Leave: Before leaving your stateroom, check the safe, closets, drawers, charging outlets, bathroom, and under the bed one final time. Taking a few extra moments can help prevent accidentally leaving behind passports, medications, electronics, or other valuables.