Alaska September 21,2022

[Johnthesailor]

We are on the next cruise.  Would you mind telling me who the cruise director and General Manager are?  How were the shows?  Looking so forward to the cruise.  Thanks for the commentary.

 

[Gilly]

On 9/26/2022 at 11:11 PM, crusin7 said:

After 20 minutes they finally let us board the ship.  Yayyyyy 2.5 hours. Embarkation grade. F-

@Cruisin7 I am so sorry for only just picking up on your horrible experience!  (Duh...the Santa Barbara clue might have been key for this detective, you'd think!!)  Good grief, lesser mortals might have jumped ship before they even got on board!  Bravo for your patience and for staying cool!  How are you all?

[crusin7]

 

John, I’m sorry to say we have not seen any shows.  The service has been excellent.  The food is mouthwatering delicious!  Today the Captain announced that there are a few cases of Covid.  The staff will all wear masks and they encourage the same for passengers.  It’s unknown how many are a few.  

 

 

[crusin7]

Yippppeeee we have internet!

[crusin7]

 

It was beautiful coming into SF.  We are docked close to Pier 39!  View grade A+

[crusin7]

Thursday, 9/29
Astoria, Oregon

We chose the Cannon Beach and Seaside shopping excursion.  We took a yellow school bus, with little legroom, 40 minutes away to get photos of Haystack Rock.  This was featured in the movie Goonies.  

We were dropped off in Cannon Beach for 1 hour of free time.  It’s a cute town with a couple of blocks of shopping and dinning options.  We had an excellent iced latte.

Next we drove to Seaside, another beach community.  This time we were given 45 minutes of free time. 

 

We found a wonderful Christmas store, Tinders.  I could have spent hours in there. Then it was back to the ship. I wouldn’t go again but it was good once.  Grade B

 

[crusin7]

Saturday 10/1

San Francisco 

What a gorgeous entry into a city.  We have been to San Francisco many times. We have never gone on the hop on hop off bus until today. We did the complete 2 Hour Circle. We sat on the top because there was no seats on the bottom. Get ready for your head to blow off. When they said we were crossing the Golden Gate Bridge and it would be cold all of us looked at each other.  Cold was an understatement! Besides freezing it was a very nice tour. B+ because of frostbite!

 

Typical SF

Golden Gate Park

On the Bridge