Ljaguar

I considered not going to the enrichment talk on “Alaska's Mighty Glaciers" but I will. Sandra Schemp is excellent.

I’m on this cruise & just rec’d notification that my original excursion scheduled for 11:45 has been rescheduled to 4:35 so I’m happy about that. I’m an experienced world traveler (but a 1st time cruiser) for almost 50 yrs & always do research & google stuff & lots of my questions were answered by people here. I appreciate those of you that truly want to help people but some of the posters here I have found to be rather elitist & judgmental. We’re all extremely lucky, blessed & privileged to be able to travel. As an aside someone here recommended the Milky Way Martini & I had it tonight at dinner & it was so good I had another one (right after learning Glacier Bay was cancelled)!

Ideally, in a perfect world, passengers should have been given the option. But we live in a world where corporations care more about $. It’s not the same thing but during the Spring Revolutions I had a land trip scheduled in March to Tunisia & everything hit the fan in December & continued to get worse. I kept getting the same script when I called but the day I read there were Tunisian army snipers on rooftops in Tunis I called & asked to be put on a Sicily tour in May which the company did.

I’m also one of the passengers currently on the Sapphire. I’ve traveled on land for almost 50 yrs so know to always expect the unexpected & go w/the flow. This is my 1st real cruise & at this point I’ll just be happy to see Glacier Bay. The trip started out promising since 1/2 day before I left I was upgraded from an interior cabin to one with a nice window view. I’m very grateful for that now. I won’t go into detail about the cascading series of events on travel day - suffice to say my connecting airport was Atlanta w/flights being cancelled/delayed for bad weather. I left the day before embarkation & did eventually get to Vancouver. I will say because we were the only ship, the whole process of getting on board was easy & smooth. Crew is great & I’ve met some very nice people on board. I am taking the land portion to Denali National Park so hopefully that’ll work out better. Yeah I’m disappointed but it’s all out of my control (except for my attitude)

Yes. I originally booked a whale watching excursion in Juneau on a boat that I think holds about 200 people but really wanted the smaller boat for about 20 people. I waitlisted that excursion and a few months later got an email if I still wanted it to pay the difference & did so. Have to admit I was surprised but very happy.

@Drew B 58 I totally agree. That’s exactly how I justified adding the Plus package. I’m not a cruiser (last cruise was a 4 day family cruise 30 yrs ago) I’m a land vacationer. My Alaska cruise/land tour is a belated retirement celebration (4 yrs ago) & to celebrate my 70th Birthday next month, It’s a well deserved treat & life celebration. 🥳🎉🥂