Cheetah13

That totally makes sense! Thank you for the information; since this is my first cruise I'm trying to figure out how it all works and these boards and commenters have been very helpful!

I'm sailing on the Bliss to Alaska on May 19th out of Seattle and it's my first cruise so I'm not sure if this is normal or not.

They started offering shore excursions a few weeks ago and kept adding more. Yesterday, I decided to book one in Juneau and one in Skagway but they only had one offered in Ketchikan so I figured I'd wait and see if they added more. Today I looked again and now there's only 11 total excursions, down from 62 yesterday?! 

So I"m just wondering if this is normal and when the "final" choices will be available. 

I'm going on my first cruise in May on the Norwegian Bliss to Alaska. Our ports of call are Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan, and Victoria. I have a few questions about shore excursions.

1. When should I start booking these? It seems that Norwegian keeps adding them so I'm not sure when to book since I don't know what all the final possibilities will be.

2. How do you decide on which ones to do? There seem to be so many good options.

3. Do you have back-ups picked out in case the one you booked is cancelled?

Thanks for any advice! 

*please note that as a first-time cruiser I'm not comfortable with the idea of booking third party excursions and will only be booking through Norwegian