sharon_pei

Thank you so much for sharing your planning progresses! I am pretty late into the game and just started to put things together for a cruise + land trip this coming June. You must have shared in the midst of this long thread, but I can't easy sort it out among so many updates. would you mind kindly sharing again how did you manage to bring down the cruise fee from the original $2200 to $1161.74? i am in the middle of hotel booking and honestly can't find any decent options (motel level) under $200/night. I am sure by now a lot of good ones are gone, but would you mind sharing where you booked just in case there are still some good options left? Thank you so much for sharing and contributing!

thank you for confirming! looks like taxi is the only option. Just did some quick maths: car rental (without employee discount deal) from airport + taxi cost + tip is equivalent to the Mendenhall tour cost for 2 ppl. Those tours are priced very strategically.

We are thinking of the exact same but without an employee benefit based low rate. still much cheaper than if renting from the cruise port. May I ask what's the public transportation option to get us from cruise port to the airport please? I checked the website (https://juneaucapitaltransit.org/routes/riverside-airport-connector/) and it seems there is no direct bus that goes into airport and one would have to connect at valley transit center bay 1? if so, that maybe too time/efforts consuming to give up on.