Peteymil

It gets attached to your passport info.

Yes

We were sent an email the morning of embarkation telling us to arrive 1 1/2 hours late. There were problems with the disembarkation of the cruise before us, and some of them got off over 2 hours late. That of course backed up the whole process. This cruise was very early in the season for Vancouver, and remember they didn't have cruising for a long time, so the port process needed to have the kinks worked out. I will say our disembarkation was very smooth.

Staff served

Open bar concept.

Food - very good (We were in Blu), and the buffet was also good Service - excellent in Blu; generally good but you could tell at certain points that they were shorthanded (staff covid isolation) weather - mostly great! Juneau and Ketchikan sunny and 60's, Sunny and beautiful at Hubbard Glacier 70 % full Very little in the way of COVID protocols; huge lines for check in (took 3 hours in packed spaces), very little masking, no transparency on # of cases, reports now of people coming down with Covid now that they are home Barnacles had a huge impact: Very, very short hours in Ketchikan and Sitka Having said all that, because we have done this cruise multiple times, I could live with the short port times, but had it been my first time in Alaska, I would have been very upset. They are taking care of the barnacles this week, so this should not be a problem again. As far as Covid, we do there were isolated individuals that were holdovers from the previous cruise. Don't know if/how many from this cruise. As many people have posted, Covid is a risk you have to be willing to take, if you are going to cruise. We masked everywhere inside and so far we are fine, but who knows. It was still a beautiful cruise and I would do it again.

Just make sure to pack a couple of lighter weight layers, last week we had temperatures in the 60's, even at the glacier it wasn't cold. You just never know.

We did it last Saturday on the ship as we were flying to US on Sunday from Vancouver. I was nervous about the internet but we bought one day of streaming internet with our captains club discount. It worked just fine. One time the agent said he was having trouble seeing us so he just rebooted our picture. The alternative would be to use cellular as soon as you are close enough to land. Could be done very early in the morning.