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Thank you all, I will work on deciding on a trip and reseller this weekend. Steve

Thanks so much for the replies. One takeaway I get is we might do better for the kind of thing we want if we book our own excursions more suited to our tastes than might be offered from the cruise line.

Hi Folks, my user name says it all. I have been on 3 or 4 ocean cruises and 2 river boat cruises and loved all. We just usually do other things. We have a beautiful RV and have spent time in 20 US national parks. We were thinking of taking our 2 adults children and their spouses on an Alaska trip. My wife is a bit skeptical as we always comment on people who do national park trips where they ride on a bus to a scenic spot get out walk 20 feet from the bus and they're done. So my question is what is the best way to really get out and see and do things. We do love to hike etc, but recognize that we won't likely have time for anything serious we just don't want to be in a large group of people seeing what we could see in a book. So my detailed questions: 1) Is there a specific cruise line that would work best for us (our few ocean cruises were years ago on Princess and we had a great time - Caribbean), or 2) Will any of the lines do with appropriately chosen shore excursions My wife and I are in our early to mid 60's and our children are all 30's and not to be ageist, but no one will feel comfortable completely surrounded by folks much older and possible not very mobile. Like most we can't spend infinite amounts of money ... TIA, Steve