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Get adjoining rooms with a door connecting the rooms.. Register one parent in each stateroom to meet age requirements and the kids will be able to sleep in one room and the parents in the other, You can supervise because they are close, have the stewards open the divider between the balconies for a larger shared area, you each have your own bathroom. Do your own land tour. Rent a car and plan your itinerary. There are lots of Alaska travel sites online to help you and the family plan.

Zuiderdam moving toward the Franklin Dock. As @Scrapnanapredicted….it’s raining. Put on the raingear and enjoy the day in port!

The weather is clear so far today. Hopefully the rain will hold off until much later today! So sorry to hear about the medical emergency and prayers for the patient.

I hope you called to ask what is included. I thought it was a very good promo and like Dave said you can always have it refared. The $1 may be a non-refundable deposit. So you may be out $2 if you cancel.

Early u means early assigned dining (5:15, 5:30) at a designated table in the “upper” dining room. If you chose your stateroom you should definitely have the “any upgrade” removed. You can also have the early dining removed, although many people prefer this assignment.

Great close-ups of the aft lines being secured. Looks like HAL mariners may have nice weather in Juneau today!

Quiet sail in today.

We need a camera person!

Nieuw Amsterdam just passing the boat harbor in the fog. Soon to show up in Juneau harbor which will be clear enough to view the docking process

Thanks for the updates..

Here she comes. She looks so small viewing in the distance between those big ships already docked!

Where are you boarding? Your boarding time will be in your documents and may change. Some cruisers with 4*or higher, Neptune Suites, Club Orange have Priority Boarding which seems to mean nothing these days. The issued boarding times were implemented to spread out arrivals in order to reduce crowding and lines as people arrive at the port. That and fewer cruisers seems to be working to avoid crowds except for those travelers who arrive by the bus load. If you have to check out of your hotel, or if you arrive by airline go to the port and just get in line. Nobody is going to kick you out unless you don’t have your proper boarding documents ready. Our Vancouver boarding documents in two weeks gives us a 10 a.m. boarding time. In March the ship in San Diego didn’t even start boarding until closer to Noon and our boarding time was 1:30. Most people are finding the boarding process easier than in the past. The dining room may not even be serving lunch. Don’t ask the stewards, they may not know. Just go to the dining room to see if it’s open.

When you begin your land tour you will meet your Journey Host who will be responsible for your itinerary until you board the ship. One element of these Yukon trips is that you have a host and travel as a group and they handle all kinds of issues. The White Pass part of the trip is different this year because of immigration issues, rock slides, etc. I’m guessing that you are meeting the Koningsdam in Skagway at the Ore Dock so the rock slide will not impact you. As you have described the itinerary it makes no sense to me either. There is still time for the schedule to work itself out and the Journey Host will be able to explain the White Pass segment when you meet him/her. The White Pass is not an excursion, it is part of your itinerary and the ship can wait for your group if it needs to!

Great camera work! Here’s to a great day in Juneau.

That was fast! Too bad there is no camera operator. Next up. Koningsdam!

Eurodam along Thane road, near the boat harbor. It’s in sight on the SnowCloud webcam. It won’t be long now.

It’s the weekend. You might have better luck on a weekday.

Get it straightened out before you leave but you can only deal with it through your TA (AARP). You want to have a printed copy showing your OBC when you board.

HAL doesn’t have exclusive areas so I don’t think you will deal with any crowding. They have been known to close the upper level of the dining room early in the epidemic when ships were not full. The only areas that get crowded are the music venues, which are easy to avoid.

I think that’s what I would do. Unless it is a day when they don’t have tour arrivals.. If you are staying at the Westmark it shouldn’t be an issue if the bus is there and going to the Westmark.

Is it too late to add a HAL transfer from the airport to the Westmark to your booking?

For some time after you have recovered from Covid you may still test positive on a PCR test. That is where the recovery letter from the doctor becomes significant if you want to cruise. A doctor pointed this out to me this morning. Good to know.

Not. Princess does not have Yukon ceuisetours.

Correction: I just checked the CCL website and Zuiderdam would be at the Railroad Dock (RRF) on Saturday, Aug 20th when they were due to board. The slide may be cleaned up but the slide area may not be stable. Some other cruise lines have moved their Skagway ships to Sitka or are tendering from their ship to the harbor boat area in Skagway. We’ll be on the Nieuw Amsterdam in August and will be at the Broadway Dock. That’s my favorite Skagway dock. Convenient and scenic for pictures down Broadway.

I think those boarding time e-mails are “auto” generated.