Azamara Pursuit Review

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Review for South America Cruise on Azamara Pursuit
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DalTexDancer
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Feb 2020
Cabin: Club Interior Stateroom

The ship is kept clean and is very nicely decorated and furnished. I especially like that no more than 700 guests are aboard and the overnight port stays make the itinerary enjoyable. Mosaic Cafe specialty coffees, snacks, tapas, and the daily availability of several Gelato flavors at the Windows Cafe are real plusses. Stateroom service is the best in the industry.

The complimentary Azamazing Evening - An Evening Carnival at the Solis Theatre in Montevideo, Uruguay was the absolute best perk. Not only was the logistics of shuttling over 600 guests from the ship to the theatre run effectively and smoothly, the entertainment was stimulating and pertinent to the itinerary. Local talent appearing in the event were outstanding. Totally fun and an excellent shore excursion which made for great pics, vids, and memories.

Negatives observed were in-fighting among bar/service staff and also arguing and a walkout fit concerning lighting from the members of the Riviera Sounds Band. The DJ, Valentino, displayed poor attitude daily with his actions and cold facial expressions concerning several requests which were not played. Additionally, Valentino interrupted a Disco evening by allowing one guest to perform her Karaoke in the middle of the dancing. He does not know how to keep guests dancing and constantly breaks the energy level and dance mood with his own selections. A severe lack of live and/or background music was observed most days around the pool area and during sail-aways; especially the first sail-away. Why have a stage at the pool area if it is only used once during White Night? The show band, Riviera Sounds, and the DJ were all underutilized. They need additional assignments providing music and setting the atmosphere in the pool area and dance floors in the Cabaret and Living Room.

Cabin Review

Club Interior Stateroom

First impression was very good on entering my inside cabin located forward on deck 6. Colors easy on the eyes, fresh carpeting, comfy bedding, plush robes and towels, nice large screen TV, ample lighting and controls, plenty of storage, well-stocked mini-fridge, ice bucket, tongs, corkscrew, minuscule bathroom is a prefab unit with barely enough room to shower for 5'9", 165 lb. person. The shower curtain constantly clung to my body. Extremely difficult to wash my feet as bending over in shower is nearly impossible without bumping into a wall or fixture. Sink is so tiny and close to the mirror, one cannot wash face/shave without bumping head on the mirror and splashing everywhere. Toilet is strangely angled about 45 degrees into a wall and bathroom door. I cannot imagine having legs longer than mine and sitting on this toilet. The bean counters and space estimators have really had a field day on this bathroom pre-fab unit. Felt as if I had a bathroom in a small motorhome. Never experienced one on a ship as small as this. The AC unit was separately controlled in my room, infinitely adjustable and best of all; produced cold air as I needed.

Port Reviews

Ilhabela

The itinerary for this South American cruise to Rio Carnaval was about perfect save I would highly recommend an overnight at Ilhabela, Brazil. Twelve hours at Ilhabela was not enough time to explore the quaint town's nightlife and all the waterfalls.

Santos (Sao Paulo)

Sao Paulo (Santos), Brazil seemed to be a lackluster port merely on the itinerary to refuel the ship. Just another big city in Brazil with anything worth touring very far (about 20 to 30 minutes by shuttle) from the industrial dock.

Punta del Este

Great tendered port. This is a resort town with a nice beach, walkable main town mall area, with a few places to eat and shop, and of course, the hand in the sand at Paseo De Las Americas, Playa Brava at Parada 1 (where most tourists headed). We ate lunch here since we were tired of the bland food aboard the Pursuit. Had fresh shrimp, langoustines, and salmon at Leonardo Etxea, a Basque Restaurant located at Joaquin Lenzia c/Bv. Artigas. It was all very fresh and excellent.

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