Dublin to Europe - British Isles & Western Cruise Reviews

Great price point, good communication before sailing, fantastic ship, professional and friendly staff. Some glitches with shore excursions and the ability to research the excursion options is hampered by a poorly designed website. Veranda cabin is great and our cabin steward was wonderful. Food is close to excellent for all meals. The Word Traveller is practically a brand new ship. The ...

We have just returned from what I expect will be our last Azamara cruise. Our ten day Ireland intensive cruise on Azamara Journey left from Dublin, circled Ireland and ended in Southampton. The itinerary was excellent, the weather (apart from some rain in Belfast) was unseasonably good. The embarkation area in Dublin was a tiny marquee. Had it been raining we would have got wet while standing ...

Azamara, simply was not an elite criuse adventure. Their customer service was terrible from the start, no one waiting to pick us up or to help with lost luggage etc. The food overall was not good. The ship was 21 years old, sold 4 times and showed it. I do have a few pictures to show it. They were very disorganized, even giving us the wrong luggage tags on departure. We took all our luggage ...

Booked this cruise because of the itinerary. This was Ireland intensive and the Pursuit was perfect for it. Because of its smaller size we were able to get into ports the mega ships can’t As a result we got to see so much more of Ireland and experience smaller towns. I know Azamara has had some administrative growing pains going out on their own but you’d never have known it from the ...

We booked the Lisbon to Barcelona cruise in May 2023. Firstly I chose this cruise because the brochure showed water toys and anchoring in the water. When I booked they said both ships were identical. They are not. No water toys no swimming in the ocean period. Main reason I booked. Secondly I expected better wines and food. Here we are porting in Spain and not a decent meal. We started ...

We spent 12 amazing days on the SH Vega, cruising from Ireland through the Scottish Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, the Faroes, and circling Iceland, with a trip up to Grimsey Island and the Arctic circle. It is impossible to exaggerate our delight in this experience. We were blessed with excellent weather throughout - misty mornings giving way to sunny and even hot days throughout the cruise - even ...

DH and I are veterans of many "luxury" and a few non-luxury cruises, with no particular favorite line. We like to mix and match depending on itinerary, timing, and other factors. We wanted to combine a pre-cruise land trip to Ireland with a classical music cruise, and then a land trip in Scotland, where we would disembark. We booked this one-week port-intensive "Music in Celtic Lands" cruise ...

I was not a seasoned cruiser , I had only been on a Carnival, Holland America , Oceana , Windstar , Regent and One River Cruise . We decided to do the Ireland Intensive and one more to France , Portugal and Spain . It wound up being Twenty Seven Back To Backs on the Quest . We did Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain , Malta , Bali, New Zealand, Australia , Greece twice , all the way to Singapore , ...

We have always wanted to visit Ireland and it is not often that cruises around Ireland are offered. We spent a night in Dublin before boarding the ship in the afternoon. We were given a time slot as facilities for shelter at the port are limited in Dublin and it all worked smoothly. Boarding was quick and easy. After clearing docs at portside, we went to the show lounge to get pics taken and ...

We did Norway in the winter on Viking and couldn’t wait to return to our favourite country with Azamara and a Norwegian captain. Embarkation in Dublin was very easy, there are no port facilities so it was part in a tent off ship and part indoors in the Lounge. Despite this it was one of the smoothest embarkations we have experienced. It was probably a lot of hard work for the crew though! ...