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Amazingly helpful, thank you!

Thank you! Oof, that’s high! Approx $365 USD.

Specifically looking at Destination Highlight: Bird Safari By Boat Honningsvag, Norway. Anyone have access to prices? TY!

TY! We were in Norway in 2017 for a land tour. This itinerary is exciting to me because the only repeat would be Flam. I’m comfortable booking independent excursions and renting cars, but car rental prices seem to have increased dramatically since then!

You can book Alaska Railroad tickets on their site. The train departs Seward at 6:00 pm and arrives at 10:15 pm. There is also bus service. I read previously that NCL will open transfers around 50 days prior, but we are staying longer in Seward so booked the Goldstar rail on our own.

Can anyone who has been, or will be, on this cruise give general input as far as cost of excursions? I am considering this itinerary in 2025, but I’d like a more realistic idea of what total costs may be after excursions are factored in. Thanks! I would be looking at excursions in Flam, Geiranger, Honningsvag, Molde, Olden, and possibly Stavanger.

Our Spring Break is always either the first or second week of March. We don’t have a 2024-2025 district calendar yet. I personally wouldn’t count on there being less kids on a 12 day cruise during that timeframe.

Super helpful responses, thank you! They have my plain Latte so I’m happy!

We are staying at the Pinnacle Hotel Harborfront. We stayed there last time we were in Vancouver and liked it. It is within two blocks or so walking distance of the pier. We plan to just take the light rail or whatever they call the train to Canada Place and walk to the hotel.

So if it’s not a real Starbucks, how is the coffee? Sincerely, very picky coffee drinker

We are staying at The Coast Inn by Lake Hood!

I sincerely doubt that National Park rangers are advertising for any cruise line. I think it depends on what you want to do in Ketchikan. Ward Cove is much closer to Totem Bight SP. My son wanted to zip line so that’s what we’ll be doing there, and we booked that excursion thru NCL. There are trade-offs for every route, every line. You just have to decide what is most important to you. I have never cruised Princess so can’t comment there. How do the port times compare?

National Park rangers board both cruise lines for Glacier Bay. We chose NCL from Vancouver to Seward for my 18 y/o and I. I’m not sure what you mean by tough dining. It’s freestyle. If you’re cruising from Seattle I’d choose the line that offers the best times in port.

We are going to go to the Capilano Suspension bridge park and/or rent bikes and bike to Stanley Park via the seawall trail. Last time we were there we walked a portion of the seawall trail, walked around downtown, and went to Granville Island.

We chose to rent a car for the day and will drive to the YT!