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Thanks! Just finished filling up at the salmon bake after gold panning. I’m rich now 😂 There has been some light rain but not bad. It is cold though!

Looking at the Juneau webcam currently makes the weather look worse than it is

All docked, people on the Eurodam are getting off the ship. No rain, just cloudy with some high fog. Absolutely beautiful and much clearer than I had expected when looking at the forecast last week. Saw whales, otters and dolphins on the way!

Just misting, not even sprinkling

Can you see me waving? 😂

Interesting. Says we are 3 miles away, still no rain for us. Curious to see once we are docked

I actually don’t think so. I’m not quite in Juneau yet (on the Eurodam) just 4 miles away but thus far no rain and the forecast is saying 0.01” just foggy and cloudy. I expect light showers on and off likely. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I will enjoy every moment either way.

I see another ship behind her. Maybe the celebrity edge? we’ve seen a lot of whales this morning

I’m currently on the Eurodam! Waving as we currently are passing the Koningsdam ❤️

yes! Got it assigned late on Friday

It would be too many screenshots to send you what’s in the app but I’m boarding the Eurodam Saturday so I’ll take photos and post them when I get back!

Thank you so much! That makes me feel better 😊

I have a family member who has a guaranteed room. We depart in two days and he still doesn’t have a room assigned. Is there any chance he could arrive for departure and be told there is no room available? He called ship inventory and they said they couldn’t help and sometimes the room is assigned at the port on arrival. Would love to hear other thoughts and experiences!

Isn’t that the truth! You are exempt if no priest is available so this shouldn’t be that much of a concern. I fully agree though. I was raised in the Catholic Church. However I left once I became an adult. It didn’t align with my morals and beliefs. So I do sympathize but feel people are kidding themselves if they think there is any way HAL would lose enough passengers from this decision to undo it. I feel like they are significantly overestimating the number of devout Catholic passengers that cruise with HAL.

I truly think this will have zero impact on their ability to fill ships. I feels for the Catholics upset about this. But keep in mind there is a significant amount of faiths that have ZERO representation or support. Those that no longer want to be with HAL, that's ok but my understanding is that most other cruise lines don't offer it as well. So essentially it's, find a way to accept that mass won't be offered or just not cruise anymore. The ships get sold out and people wait and hope for openings. Any Catholics who know longer go will just have those rooms filled with others. So I wouldn't hold my breathe on these emails or any kind of sales impact changing their mind here. If they do, fantastic and more power to you, but I won't expect it.

it can be glitchy but you should be able to see your menus on the navigator app if your ship is on the same itinerary now. Whatever menu in the app is the same menu that is currently on that ship. Sometimes when you click on it the menu won’t appear. That’s a technically glitch and you may be able to try again then or later and have success.

It should be Wednesday. That is the “Dutch Theme” night so I would imagine it correlates with that.

I think you just got lucky. I’m still having issues so no universal fix has been made at least.

Mine changes throughout the day. I could try with no success five times in a row, then refresh and try again and have it come up. Then not come up again. I keep saving them now the moment it comes up so I can keep copies. It’s really frustrating though

For me an Alaskan cruise isn’t about those ports. I enjoy the open sea, the wildlife and Glacier Bay. I may be bias because I live in the PNW so the “amazing views” of the Canadian Inside Passage is no different than taking my boat up the Columbia Gorge. There is nothing special, it’s just calmer waters. It’s also why I don’t fall into “tourist traps” because I can get my own fresh Dungeness crab here. Either way, I personally found the inside passage to be lacking and less beautiful and less sea life than when I have taken the outer way back. But if others love it for some reason, more power to them. Everyone has different priorities. Feel free to continue to call ports “tourist traps” and completely disregard the thousands of people that enjoy the cruise every year. I would venture there are far more “tourist trap” ports in other regions. But whatever. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I was just sharing my opinion.

I agree with you completely. We saw SIGNIFICANTLY more wildlife going the other way. When I did the the inside passage we saw zero wildlife. The other direction was filled with wildlife. Plus I love the open sea. The inside passage made me feel like I was just on a river cruise. I feel like the only benefit is that it’s typically calmer waters.

I don’t like that NA took the Eurodams dock and the Eurodam is now having to tender. I hope they don’t do that on my cruise in a few weeks. The berth schedule shows the Eurodam where the NA is right now. I wonder why they changed it.

Does HAL release the full daily planners on the Navigator prior to sailing? Or will they just come available day of?

Mine has it and I don’t have any post cruise transfers.

I honestly was not impressed with the inside passage. I prefer coming back on the outside. I know it feels upsetting but I do feel this is fair compensation. I missed my absolute favorite port last time, Sitka, and came the inside passage home. I was so upset and disappointed. I LOVE sitka and the inside passage was really disappointing. No compensation for us but I also didn’t expect it. There are many cruise lines who wouldn’t have provided any compensation for something like this. im sorry again that you were disappointed. ❤️