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Azamara Club Cruises unveiled 54 itineraries between March 2012
and February 2013 that complete the line’s 2012 deployments. More than half of
all port calls next year give late night and overnight stays in port. Many
cruises feature new destinations, ranging from ports in Libya to the artist
colony of Skagen in Denmark.
Itineraries also highlight events such as Rio de Janeiro’s
Carnaval, Floriade in the Netherlands and the 52nd Annual Molde Jazz Festival in
Norway. Passengers will have the opportunity to purchase prime-seating ticket
and transportation packages from Azamara.
Azamara Quest sails to South America during the height of austral summer, with
overnights in Rio and Punta del Este, a double overnight in Buenos Aires and
opportunities to experience Carnaval.
Azamara Journey sails around the Indian subcontinent to East Asia, starting with
a 13-night ‘Spice Coast & Ceylon’ voyage from Mumbai to Chennai, departing Nov.
29, 2012. Several overnight stays and maiden calls at the Maldives and Colombo
and Galle, Sri Lanka, are planned.
Further cruises feature a two-night stay and maiden call at Burma’s Yangon, an
overnight in Singapore and two-night calls at Bangkok (Klong Toey), Ho-Chi Minh
City and Hanoi.
Some 27 voyages will operate in the Mediterranean, Black and Red seas. The only
short cruise offered by Azamara, a five-night, round-trip voyage from Nice,
France, departs on May 24 and offers an overnight at and midnight departure from
St. Tropez and two late-night departures from Monte Carlo and Portofino.
Passengers will have the option to purchase tickets to the Monaco Grand Prix.
Eastern Mediterranean voyages stretch seven to 12 nights, with overnights and
late stays in ports such as Kotor (Montenegro), Venice, Amalfi, Capri, Athens,
Mykonos and Istanbul. On the July 22 ‘Black Sea & Transylvania’ voyage, Azamara
Quest offers an opportunity to visit Dracula’s castle on a Land Discovery option
during the call at Constanta, Romania.
On the Oct. 16 sailing, Azamara Quest features Northern African destinations
with maiden calls at Al Khums and Tripoli in Libya.
Azamara Journey makes the most maiden calls for the line in the North and Baltic
seas in 2012, visiting new destinations with nearly daily port calls on nine
voyages. On the seven-night round-trip Belgium and South England voyage from
Paris (Rouen), the ship will make maiden calls at and midnight departures from
Zeebrugge (Bruges) and the UK’s Dover, Portland and Dorset, and conclude with an
overnight in port.
Maiden calls on other cruises include the Isles of Scilly, Flushing
(Vlissingen), Southampton, Visby, Skagen and Rotterdam, among others. |
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