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On Oct 28, 9:28*pm, 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. First, we are based in Toronto Canada. Vancouver/Seattle would not be a problem. Second, can we do a cruise-tour within our budget? Including air- fare? If I am missing a package please reply. I have a good travel agent, but 90% plus of his business is in the warmer climates. So I am looking for second opinions. |
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On Oct 28, 11:46*pm, wrote:
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. My impression is Holland is for older folks (mind you we are both in our fifties), and considering how un-adventurous our older friends are we don't want to find ourselves stuck on a boat (that`s ship to the captain) full of old fuggies. |
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On Oct 29, 10:21*am, Tom K wrote:
And one nice thing they do, at least on their smaller ships, is open up the bow of the ship for passengers to view the glaciers in Glacier Bay. * On many other cruise line ships, that area has a lot of mechanical equipment so the area is closed off to passengers. Okay, that is news to me. Nice to know such. I hate being on one side of the ship and later find out I missed a sight that was on the other side. |
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On Oct 28, 10:25*am, wrote:
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. Yes, a transatlantic is also possible, I like the idea but she does not unless we had more money to stay in Europe for a week or two (and she prefers two). |
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:42:54 -0700 (PDT), Earl_Colby_Pottinger wrote:
On Oct 29, 10:21*am, Tom K wrote: And one nice thing they do, at least on their smaller ships, is open up the bow of the ship for passengers to view the glaciers in Glacier Bay. * On many other cruise line ships, that area has a lot of mechanical equipment so the area is closed off to passengers. Okay, that is news to me. Nice to know such. I hate being on one side of the ship and later find out I missed a sight that was on the other side. I have the same feeling when Charles is cornholing my ass. --Tom |
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On 10/29/2011 12:38 PM, Earl_Colby_Pottinger wrote:
First, we are based in Toronto Canada. Vancouver/Seattle would not be a problem. Second, can we do a cruise-tour within our budget? Including air- fare? If I am missing a package please reply. I have a good travel agent, but 90% plus of his business is in the warmer climates. So I am looking for second opinions. You can do an 11 night Cruisetour for $1500 or less if you look for deals (we paid $1200 last year for the 11 night on HAL with the long Denali tour and 2 nights there). With airfare I assume it would be $2000 (or less). Longer tours obviously cost more. You will be flying into or out of Alaska with a Cruisetour, so that will make it more expensive, but we paid $600 or so for NY-SEA-FAI-NY last year. You will need to factor in excursions, which tend to be expensive in Alaska, especially if you want to do something like a helicopter tour. My impression is Holland is for older folks (mind you we are both in our fifties), and considering how un-adventurous our older friends are we don't want to find ourselves stuck on a boat (that`s ship to the captain) full of old fuggies. HAL is not that bad in Alaska in terms of age. They've been marketing to families to do multi-generation trips so you get a reasonable mix of people. There were not as many walkers as you'd expect to see on HAL. Bill |
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On 10/29/2011 10:21 AM, Tom K wrote:
On 10/28/11 11:46 PM, wrote: 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. And one nice thing they do, at least on their smaller ships, is open up the bow of the ship for passengers to view the glaciers in Glacier Bay. On many other cruise line ships, that area has a lot of mechanical equipment so the area is closed off to passengers. --Tom I did not realize that other lines didn't allow this, but I really enjoyed being able to go out on the bow on our HAL cruise last summer. It was not nearly as busy as I would have expected, and I was able to get great movies of the glacier calving. The CD claimed it was better than they had seen all summer; not sure if I believed that but I did believe him when he said that some days they go there and there's nothing. Bill |
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On Oct 29, 4:28*pm, Bill wrote:
On 10/29/2011 12:38 PM, Earl_Colby_Pottinger wrote: HAL is not that bad in Alaska in terms of age. They've been marketing to families to do multi-generation trips so you get a reasonable mix of people. There were not as many walkers as you'd expect to see on HAL. I just had this impression from past posts and the fact that when our ship shared a pier with an Holland ship the first thing we saw from our balcony after docking was all the people taking their morning walk around the walkway on the Holland ship. I guess on the plus side all these older people were up first thing in the morning getting their muscles moving, this is more than what I can say about my older friends who think we are crazy to go camping and first thing we doing in the morning is to walk some trails or go canoe/ kayaking. Maybe I am the one who needs to be more flexible in my choice of ships. |
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:33:11 -0700 (PDT), Earl_Colby_Pottinger
wrote: 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. We took a cruise on Celebrity and enjoyed it. We were with a group and so didn't have a say in the schedule. While we enjoyed it, the cruise was 7 days round trip from Vancouver. If we did it again, I would want a cruise that only went one way and then take another form of transportation the other way. |
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:26:09 +0100, "Peterw"
wrote: Isn't there a time of the year when Alaska is infested with flies?? Summer G |
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