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Thank you for this insight. 👍🏻

@MtnSeaGirl it seems like we have similar cruising sensibilities. 🥰 After so many cruises to the Caribbean we're now thinking like "you've seen one island, you've seen 'em all!" I mean how many monkeys or sloths can I hold, how many times do I want to hear "lady, lady-- let me braid your hair?!" 🤣 Don't get me wrong, cruising anywhere is still our vacay of choice, but we are now on the hunt for something different. We have some Europe/Mediterranean under our cruising belts, but the bucket list seems to be growing longer. Have even been dreaming about a transpacific or Asian cruises. While my husband is still working it's a little more challenging to plan any kind of travel and he doesn't have a job that allows for "summers off". We have some cruising buddies who live in Seattle, so they have done Alaska many times and we asked their opinions too. That's our other *kink* in the thought process of WHERE to cruise FROM since we've never been to Seattle either and we could potentially meet up with our friends there first. OH, the decisions... 🤔

My hubby is usually the one that likes to write reviews. I think we need to book one first! 🤣

I don't know what to ask. My hubby is still working so it's trying to fit something into a certain time frame (for him to take PTO) to start, and then figuring out from where to cruise and whether or not to add a land tour first. I've read a lot about how much time is spent on transport for the land tours so we're already reconsidering that. Obviously there is just too much in Alaska to do just one cruise. We had been shying away from Alaska for many years because for our money and time, it's about equal going to Europe from where we live. I much prefer Europe, but my hubs wants to visit cousins in Colorado for a couple of days either going or coming, and attaching a cruise trip to that made Alaska a natural choice. I guess I would appreciate it if you could come back here after your cruise and give some thoughts and opinions about how it went. 😊

Mary Lou, I would be interested to hear more about your upcoming NCL Jewel plans for the end of April and May. We just hit Sapphire for the Latitudes program and are open to any cruise line really that fits our time frame and itinerary, but have more CruiseNext deposits available.

Ditto for us Florida folks MtnSeaGirl! We are experienced cruisers, but first time considering Alaska, so are having trouble trying to figure out what will work best for us. We're planning for summer 2025 and want to maximize our travel there.

Thank you for this info oaktreerb. We're in the talking stages of our first-ever Alaska cruise and possible land tour for summer 2025, so will be following these forums as well.

Yup. That's why we've been considering. 👍🏻

Thank you. 👍🏻 We just turned Sapphire on Latitude rewards and had been contemplating a future sailing on MSC.

Jamie, so I am curious and would like your honest opinion. With regards to food and drink how does MSC stack up (or not) vs. NCL? We're in Quebec City waiting to board the Pearl on Friday.

@broberts Thank you SO much! Once you told me about format merging, I was able to recreate my document and save it as a PDF. I would not have ever learned that little trick without your assistance! 👍🏻

Hi @JamieLogical We actually met you on the Breakaway two years ago to Bermuda, and right after that cruise DH and I booked a NE cruise on the Pearl which we're FINALLY taking next week! WOO-HOO! Of course, we've been on several cruises since then, but going to the Caribbean now sort of feels like you've seen one island you've seen 'em all to us. So, we Floridians (who are also not pool deck sort of people) wanted to try a different adventure. This one goes from Quebec City and ends up in Boston. We are so excited as we've not been to any of these ports before. I look forward to reading more of your posts about the Canada/New England area.

I'm not at a computer right now. Would you be kind enough to tell me under which menu I would find the Paste Merge Formatting?

Yes, @broberts Thanks for trying. If you can even get it to a point where it's a word doc with regular font and no lines, I can go back in and redo font color, type, and size. I've even tried just snipping in parts as jpgs and pasting to word, but the snips are too big to fit on the page. If all else fails, I may have to end up typing all from scratch, but I'm hoping to avoid that.

Thanks @broberts! If I knew how to paste without formatting, I certainly would try that. Here's the link to the post I would like to copy and paste to WORD, then edit and upload as a PDF. (That, I know how to do.) Post #159 https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2816315-ncl-pearl-october-6-2023-quebec-to-boston/page/7/#comment-66074073