Detailed Itinerary
PRE-CRUISE OPTION - Stockholm with golf at Bro Hof Slott and Ullna
Embark Azamara Journey from 1:00PM onwards. All aboard by 4:30PM.
Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic center of Sweden. It sports an appealing mix of modern Scandinavian architecture and fairy tale palaces, watched over by a Board of Beauty, responsible for preserving the city. One third of its area is devoted to green space, and another third to waterways, providing lots of room to breathe. Gamla Stan is the oldest section, retaining the medieval layout of narrow meandering paths. For the contemporary take there's Sodermalm, known trendily as SoFo, with welcoming restaurants and pubs, specialty shops and boutiques. Stieg Larsson fans hang out here, as it is the area of the city where most action in the Millennium novels takes place.
Enjoy it on your own arrangements or via Azamara Shore Excursions®.
Port Explorer Guide – Stockholm
Overnight: At Sea
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia, being home to one third of the country’s population. Despite occupation at one time or another by each of its near neighbors, Tallinn is independent-minded and has creative ways of showing it - consider the Singing Revolution of 1988, the massive musical demonstration against Soviet rule that set Estonia on the path to independence. Visit St Olav's Church, once the tallest building in the world, at least until 1625. Then pull up a chair at one of the cafés in the charming town square, heart of the city for 800 years. After your coffee, explore St. Catherine's Passage, a quaint old lane, home to a collection of craft workshops, and check out the secret 17th C. tunnel system.
Enjoy it on your own arrangements or via Azamara Shore Excursions®.
Overnight: At Sea
St Petersburg is one of the world's most beautiful cities, and has all the ingredients for an unforgettable travel experience: high art, lavish architecture, wild nightlife, an extraordinary history and rich cultural traditions that have inspired and nurtured some of the modern world's greatest literature, music, and visual art. The architecture is varied and striking, with golden domed churches, and an astounding number of large and extravagantly decorated palaces, consistently evoking wows from visitors. The grandest include the countryside Peterhof, with its lavish gardens and majestic golden fountains cascading down to the Gulf of Finland; and the Winter Palace, within the complex of the Hermitage, one of the world's largest museums with a collection of some three million works of art and artifacts.
Enjoy St Petersburg via Azamara Shore Excursions®.
Port Explorer Guide – St Petersburg
Overnight: In Port – St Petersburg, Russia
GOLF: Gorki Golf Club is the first and so far only championship golf course to be created in the northwest of Russia. It opened fully in September 2015, is constructed to the very highest standards, and has a genuine links course feel to it. The Club also boasts a spacious two storied clubhouse and restaurant. A special welcome awaits all guests, and the opportunity of playing golf in Russia should not be missed, and a day to remember is assured.
Enjoy St Petersburg via Azamara Shore Excursions®.
Port Explorer Guide – St Petersburg
Overnight: In Port – St Petersburg, Russia
Enjoy St Petersburg via Azamara Shore Excursions®.
RUSSIAN VISA PLEASE NOTE: Guests are permitted to enter Russia under the ship’s VISA Free status (which also covers our organized visit to Gorki Golf Club) so long as they are doing so on one of the ship’s Land Discoveries® excursions. An extensive range of excursions are available for purchase and can be booked online in advance or once on board. It is also possible to set up a qualifying private excursion under Azamara’s Private Journeys® program which requires to be set up a minimum of 30 days in advance.
Guests who wish to make their own plans out with this program, or who wish to walk off the ship independently (which is not recommended due to language and other issues), will require to arrange their own Russian Tourist Visa in advance, which can be time consuming and costly.
Port Explorer Guide – St Petersburg
Overnight: At Sea
Helsinki is a successful blend of traditional and modern architecture and design, interwoven with the beauty of nature, and a few quirky, purely Finnish touches - such as a church built inside a giant chunk of granite, and a venue that is a unique combination of café, restaurant, bar, laundromat, and sauna. Classic Russian onion-domed churches share the stage with Nordic minimalism, and a large concentration of Art Nouveau buildings. Prominent globally in the field of technology, Finland has also recently topped the charts as having the world's best educational systems.
Enjoy it on your own arrangements or via Azamara Shore Excursions®.
Port Explorer Guide – Helsinki
GOLF: Hirsala Golf Club is located just a short drive to the west of Helsinki and is set on a beautifully rolling piece of classic Finnish forest land. The golf course opened in 2007, was quickly rated by Golf Digest as amongst the best golf courses in the country, and in 2015 it had the honor of hosting the Finnish Open. The club also takes great pride in its GEO (Golf Environment Organization) certification, recognizing the contribution it makes to preserving the biodiversity and maximizing the ecological value of the land and the living ecosystem which depends on it.
Overnight: At Sea
A day at sea. No golf. No sightseeing. No worries. Here’s your chance to reset with the help of four restaurants plus cafes and lounges, a pool, sun decks, a spa, fitness center, jogging track, hair salon, shops and cabaret lounge. Azamara’s clubhouse style ambience provides a hybrid of luxury and big-ship cruising with every amenity presented in an intimate setting with superb service. Note that the best cocktails are found along with the best views on Deck 10 in the Living Room where you can admire the Murano glass and gaze out the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Overnight: At Sea
Copenhagen is the capital and most populated city of Denmark, and is known as a city of spires: the skyline of its medieval core is punctuated only by the steeples of churches and towers of palaces, though a modern building boom has overtaken other parts of the city. Today's Copenhagen is known for its excellent quality of life and environmental consciousness - with many parks, it is green both literally and in today's sense of the word. It is also bicycle-friendly, with bike paths lining almost every major street. After a ride or wander through the old town, stop for a local repast of Smørrebrød, traditional open-face sandwiches, or a mouthwatering Danish pastry.
Enjoy it on your own arrangements or via Azamara Shore Excursions®.
Port Explorer Guide – Copenhagen
GOLF: The Scandinavian was designed by Robert Trent Jones II and is set in a beautiful landscape with undulated ancient woodland terrain and several small lakes a short drive north of Copenhagen. The development was the inspired creation of three Danish entrepreneurs following their sale of Navision to Microsoft. Both courses were laid out between 2006 and 2010 and quickly debuted in the very top of Golf World’s 100 best European courses. The Scandinavian Old Course sprinted past a raft of established golf courses for a grand spot at #15, with The Scandinavian New Course entering at #34.
Overnight: At Sea
Aalborg, Denmark’s fourth-largest city sits at the narrowest point of the Limfjord, the long stretch of water which separates Jutland into two parts. Recent developments in the town have created a picturesque waterfront. The 1000-year-old city claims a Viking history, more than 300 restaurants, plus casino and fantastic shopping. The zoo is renowned for breeding rare Siberian Tigers and local buildings are an architectural delight.
Overnight: At Sea
9:00AM Disembark Azamara Journey.
Oslo, Norway’s capital is an intriguing blend of historic and contemporary – its striking new Opera House playing counterpoint to the charming old Damstredet, a narrow, well-preserved street of brightly painted and carved wooden houses.
Norwegians are justly proud of their maritime heritage, dating back to the 9th century, when Viking long ships with distinctive curved bows left colonies in their wake across northern Europe, and later sailed on to Greenland and America almost 500 years before Columbus.
Some of these intriguing craft can be found amidst the parks of the Bygdøy Peninsula, along with other historic vessels, including Amundsen’s polar ship Fram, and Heyerdahl’s raft, Kon Tiki.
Prior to embarking Azamara Journey, enjoy three nights in beautiful Stockholm, with golf at two of its finest courses – Bro Hof Slott Golf Club and the Ullna Golf Club
- Three (3) nights’ accommodations in a 4-star hotel based on twin occupancy, with daily breakfast
- Green fees and starting times for two (2) rounds of golf with shared electric golf cart
- Transfers from the hotel to ship, and to/from each golf course (airport transfers excluded)
- Box lunch at each golf course with open bar for select standard beers, wines and spirits
- Welcome dinner including drinks and wines
- Management and handling of golf equipment
- All gratuities for golf related staff including drivers & golf bag handling staff
- Full-time PerryGolf program manager
Fitness Center and
Spa
Cabaret Lounge
Indulgences
Guest Laundry Facility
