Alaska CruiseTour Question

[AlaskaDay]

We are on a Princess 4 day Denali Explorer pre-cruise Tour in May. I was wondering how charges for food, incidentals are handled on the tour. Is cash/credit card the payment method or to you have a tour "account" like on the ship that all charges are posted to? Any tips we need to know? This is our second Alaska cruise, but first tour. Thanks!

[nukesubsailor]

We are on a Princess 4 day Denali Explorer pre-cruise Tour in May. I was wondering how charges for food, incidentals are handled on the tour. Is cash/credit card the payment method or to you have a tour "account" like on the ship that all charges are posted to? Any tips we need to know? This is our second Alaska cruise, but first tour. Thanks!

If any of your meals are included in your tour package, your itinerary will show that. All other meals are at your expense. Pay as you would at any restaurant. There is no putting meals on a tab like the shipboard folio aboard ship.

[Loonbeam]

It's pay as you go. You can put a CC down at the desk of each resort and charge to room, but most people don't bother since they give you your room keys in transit, no reason to stand in line..

 

We are on a Princess 4 day Denali Explorer pre-cruise Tour in May. I was wondering how charges for food, incidentals are handled on the tour. Is cash/credit card the payment method or to you have a tour "account" like on the ship that all charges are posted to? Any tips we need to know? This is our second Alaska cruise, but first tour. Thanks!

[Blindhog]

These are some of the things we learned... It's a good idea to do the land tour first. You are packing and traveling almost every day so the cruise will give you time to relax. Packing can be a challenge. We found you need more luggage space for Alaska. We each needed two bags to cover excursion cloths and cruise ship "attire". We found out when we got there that you can only take one bag with you on the land portion so we needed to re-pack and send one bag ahead to the ship. It would have been nice to know that ahead of time.

[Loonbeam]

At least when we dd it, all of that packing information was included in the info we printed out pre-cruise. Did they take it out?

 

These are some of the things we learned... It's a good idea to do the land tour first. You are packing and traveling almost every day so the cruise will give you time to relax. Packing can be a challenge. We found you need more luggage space for Alaska. We each needed two bags to cover excursion cloths and cruise ship "attire". We found out when we got there that you can only take one bag with you on the land portion so we needed to re-pack and send one bag ahead to the ship. It would have been nice to know that ahead of time.

[caribill]

At least when we dd it, all of that packing information was included in the info we printed out pre-cruise. Did they take it out?

 

It's still there.

 

Basic information in the personalizer says:

 

"For additional information on luggage, please refer to the Alaska cruisetour section of Cruise Answer Place on princess.com."

 

And that information says:

 

"You are allowed one piece of "Join Me Tonight" luggage per person on the land portion of your Cruisetour......Passengers who cruise after their land tour should pack a seperate bag for items they will not need on land."

Edited December 31, 2013 by caribill

[caribill]

Any optional land excursions booked before you start the tour will be charged to your credit card a couple of days before the tour starts.

[Merlinite]

In Danali walk across the road to Salmon Bake for a Mt. McKinley Margarita and some fish tacos...