AZURA P&O CRUISES enter into the Venice lagoon 10/09/2011

Azura Azura and Ventura are the largest ships in the P&O Cruises fleet. Both offer an incredible choice of bars, restaurants, sports and spa facilities and entertainment, plus lots of other exciting and unique features.
At the heart of Azura is her atrium, a very social venue located over three magnificent decks, with a café, art gallery, bookshop, library and shopping. In the evenings you are invited to take your partner and dance the night away on a beautifully polished dance floor. The music and dance theme continues in The Playhouse theatre with West End style shows, and in Manhattan, Azura's New York inspired show lounge.
The Retreat is an alfresco spa terrace designed exclusively for adults, offering treatments under airy cabanas and beneath moonlit skies. Azura's Spa Staterooms offer priority access to these facilities and for independent travellers, there's perfectly proportioned single staterooms. On Lido Deck, SeaScreen is an open air cinema screening comedy classics, British film favourites and Hollywood blockbusters.
Dining also takes centre stage on board. In addition to three main restaurants offering a choice of Club Dining - the same table at the same time each evening, and Freedom Dining - no fixed seating or dining times, there's the opportunity to visit the Select Dining venues of Sindhu; the first restaurant at sea from Michelin starred chef Atul Kochhar, Seventeen; where a sense of occasion is always on the menu, and The Glass House, a wine bar and restaurant created in partnership with TVs Olly Smith.
Name: Azura
Owner: Carnival PLC[1]
Operator: P&O Cruises
Port of registry: 2010 Southampton, UK

2010-present Hamilton, Bermuda
Builder: Fincantieri, Italy
Yard number: 6166[2]
Laid down: October 27, 2008
Launched: June 26, 2009
Christened: April 10, 2010
Completed: April 1, 2010
Maiden voyage: April 12, 2010
In service: 2010
Identification: Call sign: ZCEE2
IMO number: 9424883
Status: In Service
Notes: [3]
General characteristics
Class and type: Grand class cruise ship
Tonnage: 115,055 GT (gross tonnage)
Length: 290.0 m (951 ft 5 in)
Beam: 36.00 m (118 ft 1 in)
Draught: 8.00 m (26 ft 3 in)
Decks: 19. 14 (Passenger accessible)
Installed power: 6 × Wärtsilä diesel engines
Speed: 22 knots
Capacity: 3096 passengers
1557 berths
Crew: 1226

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