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Caribil, Your cruise summary from 2012 was extremely helpful. Thank you! I'll make sure to post other questions that I may have. 🙂

Sox Fan, I can see how you would be confused. We decided to do just a cruise this year, and save the cruise tour for the 2024 summer. Just so we'll not feel rushed and overwhelmed to figure out our schedule if we were to do a cruise tour this year. Hope this makes more sense.

John99, Thank you for taking the time to look up the ADA info for me. This will be extremely helpful when we set up our cruise tour. I hadn't even given the charter busses any thought as to convenience, being ADA compliant, etc. We decided to put off the cruise tour for next summer, and do a 7 day Alaskan this summer. 🙂

georgiacat, Thank you for your input! I do agree that lodging for only one night does sound extremely tiring. I will make sure that we have more than one night per lodge. 🙂

Portiemom, It was extremely helpful for you to go into detail about the lodging, etc. I also took your comment to heart about people planning a year or two ahead of schedule. Now that I have more of an idea of what to expect, we are planning on doing a seven day Alaskan cruise this year, then do the tour cruise next summer. Thank you for all of your insight. 🙂

portiemon, I so appreciated all of your replies to my questions. Thank you for taking the time to respond. You know, I was looking up cruises on American Discount Cruise, but 'ding, ding, ding, ding'! I'm thinking I need to go directly to the Princess Cruise site to get more detailed info. From your experience, is this the best place to get all of the necessary and accurate info? It's good to hear you say that Princess does a good job, and that their lodging is beautiful. 🙂

katisdale, Thank you for replying back to me ! It was all so helpful. It also made for more questions, which is a good thing. Hopefully you will be able to answer them if you have time. 1) I'm assuming the lodging is included with the cruise fare, and that a room would already be assigned to us when we get there? 2) I assumed that Princess cruise would set up transportation for us to get from one lodge to the other lodge, then back to the ship for departure. Am I correct on this, or do we need to set up a car rental to get to where we need to go? 3) So from my understanding, we set up a tour of our choice while we're on land, as opposed to Princess Cruise already having something set up for the group.(?) I was thinking the same thing of what you had brought up, and that is cruising 'after' being on land, to be able to take it easy. Also, I don't normally use a wheelchair, but we have been using one for museums, airports, Disneyland, etc. Anything that has me standing without a place to sit, or the need to walk for short or long distances. I'll have to see if the cruise line would happen to have a wheelchair that I could use, just in case. Thanks again for the info!

Hello, My husband and I are hoping to go on an Alaskan cruise that may also include visiting Mt Denali, and Mt McKinley. This sounds wonderful, but I have a concern about the land tours, due to my health. Not being familiar with these land tours, and what they involve, I have a few questions that I am hoping you may be able to answer. 1) On these land tours, do you take a bus through the area, and stop at destined sightseeing areas for a view, or do you do walking tours, etc? 2) If I feel up to going on the tour, then end up not feeling well once on it, will I be able to stay on the bus while the tour takes place? 3) If I am not feeling up to going on a tour, can I stay at the designated lodge while the tour takes place? Is there anything to do while at the lodge, ie- restaurants, lobby, etc, if I feel up to stepping out of our room? 4) We are thinking about doing the Princess Majestic 13 day cruise-tour. Is this a good cruiseline for this type of Alaskan cruise? I sure would appreciate any information you may be able to throw my way. Thank you!