Norwaylady goes b2b Alaska+Hawaii on Eclipse

[Norwaylady]

Skagway 

 

Rise & Shine🤩

We are booked on the scenic train 12.45. 

 

Due tue the mudslide earlier in Skagway, we are docked. But we must tender into the city. The pier is closed for people. 

So this makes the process a bit more complicated on this port. 

 

We have priority tender from captain’s club. 

So we are starting the day at Tuscan for breakfast and then we will tender into town for a walk before we take the train.

[Norwaylady]

Skagway, the city of gold diggers and ladies😄 This is a perfect example of what we imagine for a “gold digger” city. Houses, streets and buildings🤩

 

Tender process went smooth. We went straight down to tender deck around 8.40 and docked 09.00 

 

We took a walk up and down the “Main Street” stopped by the museum houses. 

It’s a golden city🤩 So all gold and diamond shops was lined up. (You know, diamonds are a girls best friend💍💎💎)  

 

We had one store we needed to stop by, the quilt store. ( you see, my mother in-law is hooked on quilt😅) So I needed to find her a new project🤓

They have lots of beautiful patterns and kits in Skagway. ✂️🪡🧵

 

At 11.00 Mr Norwaylady wanted to have a beer 🍺 (you know from earlier, Norwaylady is in deep trouble on this holiday🙈) Mr had done his homework and knew it was 2 brewery’s in town🍺🍺

 

So we went to Klondike Handcraft Beer. They had a beautiful tasting paddle🤩 Nice presentation and cute glassware👍🏻 

Mr was very happy and the beer was excellent for his tastebuds🍺 Cheers 🍻 

Norwaylady decided to try the raspberry seltzer, in a small glass. The seltzer was really good, dry and fresh. Perfect for non-beer drinkers🍹 

 

Time to move the pub crawl onward……

Next stop Skagway Brewing Co🙌🏻 

(I know, not suitable for kid’s😜) 

A new tasting paddle was delivered🍻

4 new beers to taste and evaluate on Untappd🧐🤪

 

Drumroll🥁🥁🥁🥁 winner beer is from Klondike. 

 

Now it’s time to bring a happy Mr to the 🚂 and our tour of today🤩

(Hopefully the pub crawl is finished for our holiday😜) 

[TeaBag]

Skagway is a lovely little town.  Thank you for taking me back there today.  Did you find a quilting project for your Mom?

If you have time when you return to Vancouver and you go to Granville Island Market, there's a quilting store near there called The Cloth Shop that you might enjoy looking through. Also you'd be paying in CDN dollars!  The currency is dropping so fast these days, we're expecting to hear a big thump!

[Jldevlin]

1 hour ago, TeaBag said:

Skagway is a lovely little town.  Thank you for taking me back there today.  Did you find a quilting project for your Mom?

If you have time when you return to Vancouver and you go to Granville Island Market, there's a quilting store near there called The Cloth Shop that you might enjoy looking through. Also you'd be paying in CDN dollars!  The currency is dropping so fast these days, we're expecting to hear a big thump!

And Juneau has a great quilt shop called Changing Tides that I visit each time we go.

[Norwaylady]

6 minutes ago, Jldevlin said:

And Juneau has a great quilt shop called Changing Tides that I visit each time we go.

Stopped by✔️
Shopped✔️

[Norwaylady]

1 hour ago, TeaBag said:

Skagway is a lovely little town.  Thank you for taking me back there today.  Did you find a quilting project for your Mom?

If you have time when you return to Vancouver and you go to Granville Island Market, there's a quilting store near there called The Cloth Shop that you might enjoy looking through. Also you'd be paying in CDN dollars!  The currency is dropping so fast these days, we're expecting to hear a big thump!

 She will receive 2 tablerunner projects and some patterns from Skagway✔️
She will be occupied for some hours 😂🥰
 

I visited the Cloth shop when we visited Granville Island✔️🙃 

[Tee & Chilli]

I’m still following this excellent review. Thank you again 

[Norwaylady]

I forgot to say, we are 3 ship’s in port today. Us, Eclipse🥰 NCL and Carnival. 

 

Back to the tour🤓

Safely seated in the last train cart, ready for our scenic train ride🚂  Cart is 50% full. ( we take now chances, face masks is on) 

Weather has been improving from grey to partly sunny and clearer then this morning😎 Perfect 👍🏻 

 

The train will turn around in White pass summit. We will be travelling from 0 to 880m elevation and back to 0. 

 

So, remember the detail of tender operation today? 

Last afternoon all passengers booked on the scenic train received a message on your stateroom phone. 

It was shore excursions. 

They were reminding everyone that due to the tender operation, you need to plan for a 45.minute wait and leave the ship early. 

The tour has meeting on the pier/train and it is your responsibility to be there in time. 

 

Well, we left the station 13.05. AND guess what? There was a group of passengers running towards the train as we slowly moved away, screaming: stop the train🤪🤪🤪 

They did not stop the train🚂🚂🚂

 

Back on track🚂🚂🚂

It’s a beautiful train ride and the weather was perfect🤩🤩🤩

The guide was fun and informative during the ride.

 

Did I tell you about the view? 

Yes, it’s scenic! (Maybe not in heavy fog…)

Bring you camera AND sit in the last cart. Then you have great view for photos on the outdoor patio📸 

It’s totally unobstructed🤩🤩🤩

Tour is 2.45h round trip. 

 

We were back on the starting point/pier at 16.05. 

We are “finished” toured today. So back to the ship it is🚢⚓️❤️

 

Yay, the pleasure of tender operation AND a fully loaded train🤣🤪😝 

Well, it gives me time to post this😅🤓

[Norwaylady]

[Ken the cruiser]

9 minutes ago, Norwaylady said:

Nice pictures! You’ve got to love those aft-facing views!! 😂😂

[dlh015]

Oh how I wish I had thought to use the last car!! I mean, I did get some good pics, but the aft pics are just WOW!!!

 

 

[Norwaylady]

Good to be back onboard😌

 

It has really been a perfect day😎 Weather is really cooperating, just continuing to improve😎 

 

This is a beautiful day, this is a day you say: let’s move to Alaska. Look how beautiful it is🤩 (it can’t be that bad when the weather is awful or the sun is to low in the winter;) 

🤣🤣🤣

Let’s just say, it’s reason for why we live in Oslo and not up north😜 

 

[Norwaylady]

Tonight’s plan was show & dinner. 

After our return onboard, we had some coffee and enjoyed the view outdoors on deck 14 until the sun went behind the mountains.

Unfortunately our balcony was on the “wrong” side for view and sun today😜. 

 

The show

It’s a magician, James Cielen. 

It was a good show and he’s really good. 

Can definitely see him again later✔️

 

We went straight from show to dinner. No beeper tonight. We were seated at Made’s tables. Excellent service as usual. 

We had the seafood ceviche for starter. 

Salmon and lamb for main. 

Ice cream and whipped passion fruit curd for dessert. 

The seafood ceviche was excellent. 

The lamb was also excellent. 

The salmon is good/okay, but a bit to grilled for our liking. The blueberry sauce is tasty, but the fish is on the edge of dry. 

 

For dessert, ice cream was a winner🤩 the peanut ice cream was 😋😋😋 

Norwaylady can’t eat pineapple, remember? 

Tonight’s dessert is an excellent experience in why pineapple allergy is no joke. 

The ice cream was “safe” desserts. For the other choices, it was pineapple as a topping or inside😝 

We survived the desserts and went to bed😴

[Norwaylady]

Icy Strait Point

 

Today’s cruise planner & 🥁🥁🥁🥁

We are invited to a sail-away on the helipad today🤩🥳🤩🥳

(It’s the first invitation to a helipad visit🥳🥳 YES it nice to actually be invited!) We are looking forward, it will be fun🥰 (remember I said some words about the hierarchy…. We have not inherited our status from our parents, they are all non-cruisers. And we have our loyalty status from X cruises, not rcl. But due to the fact that we don’t “fit” the form, we are often dragged to the side to check sea pass cards if we attend. Because they assume instant that we are on the wrong place😝)

 

Today’s plans are very easy. We have a day pass for the Gondola 🚠 and time will show what the day brings😎

[r2h2]

Have you guys heard any talk of the mega storm off the west coast of Alaska? It formed from the remnants of a tropical cyclone. It"s probably a day or 2 away from the southeast coast of Alaska. As info...

[vickykay]

Was your train a ship excursion or did you book it on your own?  Thanks. 

[Norwaylady]

25 minutes ago, r2h2 said:

Have you guys heard any talk of the mega storm off the west coast of Alaska? It formed from the remnants of a tropical cyclone. It"s probably a day or 2 away from the southeast coast of Alaska. As info...

Not heard a word, but if you look on Windy, it’s nothing to be worried about🙃👍🏻🙌🏻 
and it has to really bad, before the Norwegian Vikings goes under🤣👍🏻🙃

We are used to heavy waves and wind🙌🏻
Mr Norwaylady was in the navy, let’s just say, it’s not unusual to stand in your bunk bed on your feet and heads during patrolling the Norwegian coast during winter🤪🤪😝

 

[Norwaylady]

5 minutes ago, vickykay said:

Was your train a ship excursion or did you book it on your own?  Thanks. 

 All tours on this cruise is booked by the cruise. We booked everything before we left from home. 
Almost all shore excursions was sold out before departure. So for those that waited until they were onboard, it was very limited options. 

[vickykay]

Thanks. Really enjoying your review and photos. 

[r2h2]

1 hour ago, Norwaylady said:

Not heard a word, but if you look on Windy, it’s nothing to be worried about🙃👍🏻🙌🏻 
and it has to really bad, before the Norwegian Vikings goes under🤣👍🏻🙃

We are used to heavy waves and wind🙌🏻
Mr Norwaylady was in the navy, let’s just say, it’s not unusual to stand in your bunk bed on your feet and heads during patrolling the Norwegian coast during winter🤪🤪😝

 

What a cool app! Thanks for sharing. Western Alaska is getting hit very hard.

[Norwaylady]

We had the usual breakfast routine, coffee from al bacio and breakfast delivered to our room. 

 

We are in Icy Strait Point together by NCL. 

 

At 09.00 we were ready to go out. We went by the green gondola to exchange our tickets to a wristband to the red gondola. This is the gondola you need to pay for. 

We took the gondola to the top of the mountain. You have a beautiful view and we were overlooking the fog. 

The view feels just like home. It’s like we are in the cabin at Helgeland coast🇳🇴

 

We took the gondola down and took the nature walk back to were we docked. The view from the gondola going down is great🤩

 It’s a 5-10.minute walk from Eclipse to the shopping/town of Icy Strait Point. 

 

We continued to the town/harbour area. 

It’s a “classic” fishing village. Same style as you will find in northern Norway/Helgeland/Lofoten/Finnmark. 

It was stocked for shopping😂 They have the history of canning production and they have all lined up, so you can see the process and machines needed for the process. 

They have a 🦀 bar. 

We enjoyed the view outside🤩

 

They have a heritage/native show. It’s was at 11.45 and they do one later in the day. 

We attended the show. It’s the story for the native tribe living is this area. They have native clothes and sing in their local language. 

Good performance 🎭 and you get a description of their clothes. 

 

After the show, we were one and done for Icy Strait Point ✔️ 

So we returned to the ship to get some coffee and have a relaxing afternoon before we sail onwards. 

[dlh015]

WOW!!! They didn't have the gondola when we were there in 2019 (or the second dock)!!  How very cool and a great reason to go back! Thanks!

 

They sure took advantage of the cruise suspension!

[Louhut1]

Totally enjoying your trip. We get on the Eclipse in Honolulu when you get off. Really looking forward to our cruise and appreciate all your info.  

[Norwaylady]

This is the first afternoon we are relaxing and just take it easy….. not a fully packed day and a long walk around town before we went back onboard😁

So a little nap on the warm chair in Persian Garden was not wrong🥰  Beautiful view and lots of whales puffing 🐳 outside🐳 So really a perfect combo🐳🙌🏻🐳 

 

I have booked myself a manicure and pedicure tomorrow❤️ I feel so miserable when my nails are naked🫣 I can’t help it😳 And due to the cold climate, they are in  desperate need for some tlc🥰

(I know it’s pricey, but as of now, the el-cheapo financial director aka Norwaylady don’t care😝) She just wants to look smashing on the hands & toes🤩

 

Since we are “home” early, we had canapés delivered. That was perfectly timed after Persian Garden & for next post of our program today🫶🏻 (we have only had coffee, no cakes in al bacio) 

There’s lots of seals 🦭 swimming around the ship and some sea lions🦭🦭 So balcony and canapé🤩

 

Sail-away, so today we are invited to the helipad🤩 Really happy🥳 (I know it’s not a big thing for many people, but it’s nice to be invited🥰) 

 

So, back to the fun🥳🥳🥳

Sail-away was on time. We were greeted by the captain’s club hostess. She is very warm in meeting people❤️ Very happy for that. 

Bubble and mimosas for all guests. 

Beautiful view and a great way to end the daytime. 

[abbydancer2003]

Great review.  Do keep in mind though, that many of your cute little emojis don't render on all computers, so you may want to not use them in place of specific words.

 

Other than being puzzled about some squares, I'm really enjoying reading this.