Alaska Cruise
My friend and I booked a 2 week Caribbean cruise with Carnival over
three years ago, every year something has come up in the winter months causing us to delay it to next winter. Now it looks like there will be a problem this year too. Carnival's Alaska trips don't have the same appeals as some of the other cruise lines (Princess is the one we are looking at now). Does anyone have reasons to recommend any other lines for the months Jan, Feb? We would like to budget less than $2800 per person. Thanks for any suggestions, even if it is just to stay with Princess. |
Alaska Cruise
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:23:18 -0700 (PDT), Earl_Colby_Pottinger
wrote: My friend and I booked a 2 week Caribbean cruise with Carnival over three years ago, every year something has come up in the winter months causing us to delay it to next winter. Now it looks like there will be a problem this year too. Carnival's Alaska trips don't have the same appeals as some of the other cruise lines (Princess is the one we are looking at now). Does anyone have reasons to recommend any other lines for the months Jan, Feb? We would like to budget less than $2800 per person. Thanks for any suggestions, even if it is just to stay with Princess. Are there cruises to Alaska in the winter? |
Alaska Cruise
On 10/25/2011 5:09 PM, Brian wrote:
Are there cruises to Alaska in the winter? Not with the traditional cruise lines! If you can find something that time of year, it will most likely be a small ship cruise or a charter. -- Ray +++++++++++++++++++++++ www.CompressorStuff.com |
Alaska Cruise
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:23:18 -0700 (PDT), Earl_Colby_Pottinger
wrote: My friend and I booked a 2 week Caribbean cruise with Carnival over three years ago, every year something has come up in the winter months causing us to delay it to next winter. Now it looks like there will be a problem this year too. Carnival's Alaska trips don't have the same appeals as some of the other cruise lines (Princess is the one we are looking at now). Does anyone have reasons to recommend any other lines for the months Jan, Feb? We would like to budget less than $2800 per person. Thanks for any suggestions, even if it is just to stay with Princess. If you want to go to Alaska, you won't be able to go in Jan-Feb. That's a spring-summer destination (April to September). There is a cruise on Crystal (very very expensive) that starts in Australia in February and gets to Alaska in April but it isn't really in Alaska in Jan/Feb.. For Alaska the cruise line I would recommend would be Holland American. They have two week cruises. Carnival only has 7 day cruises and the longest Princess ones are 10 days. A possible winter equivalent is a 13 day Fred Olsen cruise to Norway in late February. In the Jan Feb time frame if you wanted to do a two week cruise that was less than $2800 a person (I'm considering that you need some time to get to some of these) there is: 8 day Transatlantic on Cunard from Europe, an 8 day cruise out of Singapore on RCI, 9-14 day cruises in Australia on RCI, Holland American, and Princess, 14 day cruises to Hawaii on Princess, HAL, Carnival or Cunard a 12 day trip to the Canary Islands on RCI, a large number of 9 to 11 day Med cruises on NCL or RCI, 11 or 14 day cruises on Celebrity or HAL out of Ft. Lauderdale or San Diego to Mexico, some 11 day cruises to the Middle East on RCI, a couple of 10 or 11 day cruises on Princess to Tahiti, and of course many cruises to the Caribbean and South America and through the Panama Canal. |
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Alaska Cruise
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:28:00 -0400, Bill
wrote: On 10/28/2011 10:25 AM, wrote: For Alaska the cruise line I would recommend would be Holland American. They have two week cruises. Carnival only has 7 day cruises and the longest Princess ones are 10 days. That's really only beneficial if you just want to stay on the ship the whole way and go round trip back to Vancouver (or is it Seattle?). You're better off doing a cruisetour and taking a one week cruise combined with 4-7 days on land, so you can see Denali and other sites the ship can't get to. Holland American does go from Seattle to Seattle, but they also go to Glacier Bay which some other lines do not and they also have cruise tours if someone wanted to do that. |
Alaska Cruise
Isn't there a time of the year when Alaska is infested with flies??
wrote in message ... On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:28:00 -0400, Bill wrote: On 10/28/2011 10:25 AM, wrote: For Alaska the cruise line I would recommend would be Holland American. They have two week cruises. Carnival only has 7 day cruises and the longest Princess ones are 10 days. That's really only beneficial if you just want to stay on the ship the whole way and go round trip back to Vancouver (or is it Seattle?). You're better off doing a cruisetour and taking a one week cruise combined with 4-7 days on land, so you can see Denali and other sites the ship can't get to. Holland American does go from Seattle to Seattle, but they also go to Glacier Bay which some other lines do not and they also have cruise tours if someone wanted to do that. |
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Alaska Cruise
On Oct 25, 8:09*pm, Brian wrote:
Are there cruises to Alaska in the winter? Yes, I am dumb, dumb, dumb. My mind was too much on the Caribbean cruise, stupid me. Yes, I want to cruise during the summer months, I am *NOT* a winter person at all. Sorry, about the dumb dates. |
Alaska Cruise
On Oct 25, 9:27*pm, RayC wrote:
On 10/25/2011 5:09 PM, Brian wrote: Are there cruises to Alaska in the winter? Not with the traditional cruise lines! *If you can find something that time of year, it will most likely be a small ship cruise or a charter. And I am sure they are not in my budget! :) |
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