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Any other onboard questions? Been a bit in “cruise mode” and will post up patters tomorrow.

Nothing special at Trident

Beautiful day in Skagway today. Discovery is in today and tendering from RR forward Pretty long lines for Discovery tenders this afternoon

The new princess app is a hot mess. I actually preferred the old one more which they cut access to. Reservations are a complete PITA to change/make

Day 4 patters

On the patters posted below

I will check

Side note. Churchills is still alive and well on the Sapphire

Beautiful day in Glacier Bay…

Glacier Bay Patters

Hubbard Glacier: Weather was cold and rainy but we were able to get super super close. Happy we didn’t spend the extra money for the excursion that went even closer. We ended up probably less than 2 miles from the face

We got packets each night. Fairbanks they have a booth at the airport next to baggage claim, chalet was when the bus arrived and when departing the chalet they gave us packets for McKinley upon boarding the bus.

Picking up pilot for Hubbard Glacier at 3:30. A bit behind schedule due to sea and wind. Not mechanical or ship related. Snow is expected in Glacier Bay tomorrow so that will be interesting

Felt very disorganized there. We got moved from the wilderness lodge to the Chalet and we were already having some issues with our schedules and packet not lining up with the others we are traveling with. Trying to find a person that could do the Princess logistics at the chalet was impossible until the morning of our departure. Also dinner in the steakhouse took almost 3 hours for mediocre food at best. Just felt disorganized, may have been early season growing pains but Fairbanks and Mt McKinley lodges were night and day difference

Train and boarding. Was an amazing train ride down to Whittier today. Weather was absolutely perfect until we got closer to the ship. Clear/scattered skies all the way down. We were on one of the smaller older trains but still enjoyed it. Really happy with the land tour other than chaos at the Chalet resort in Denali. Boarding was super easy today. They brought port staff onboard in Anchorage to do our passports and give out medallions to those who didn’t have them yet. This was nice since we were the last train/group to join the ship boarding around 7:00 Great dinner in Santa Fe tonight as we sailed out. Ship and staff have been great and currently are doing 19 knots leaving Prince William Sound. Expecting 50knot winds tonight so captain gave us a heads-up it might be a bit choppy.

Been absolutely stunning here at Mt. McKinley lodge yesterday and today. Can’t ask for better weather. We are off to the train to Whittier this afternoon. Super excited to be boarding tonight!

Ships doing 20knots again

The prop wash looks very different than just displaced water

Made it to Denali. Today we are doing the natural history tour before heading down to McKinley Resort for tonight. Riverboat was great yesterday, really a good experience. Here are couple pics.

Saw her going 19.4 for a bit last night. May have slowed down since the extra speed wasn’t necessary

Fact that the speed is up that high hopefully means it’s fixed 🤞

Still sitting probably testing still. Ship is safe even if drifting they do have the one active prop

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Shuttle was 10 dollars to the cultural center downtown and the holland America hotel, ran about every hour. We ended up just getting an Uber.