i've taken both the infinity round trip otu of vancouver and the summit one
wy from anchorage.
they do a great jobk naturalist etc
i would recomend booking the white pass thru the cruise line. you don't save
much money and are sure of getting on.
as for the others, they should be booked in advance and not necessarily thru
the ship.
capt larry in juneau is great for whalewatching
go to cruisecritic's alaska's board for more detailed info and how to book
sheree
"Tom K" wrote in message
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> "MelB" wrote in message
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>> To all you kind folks who responded with your suggestions, many thanks. I
>> will certainly think about what you had to say. More specifically:
>>
>> I may well re-consider tours. If we do choose Alaska as our destination,
>> it is more likely that we will restrict ourselves to an inside-passage
>> cruise, and that would preclude any inland tours starting from Anchorage.
>> Other tours from the various ports of call might be reasonable to do. It
>> would seem that our best strategy would be to wait until we got to a port
>> of call and then see which, if any, tours we might wnt to sign up for. It
>> would probably cost less that way, and we would probably get more to
>> choose from than if we bought our tours in advance.
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> One of the local excursions that I've heard about is the White Pass and
> Yukon Railroad. That's supposed to be a must do. At least for old timey
> railroad fans. I believe that it's an old narrow gauge railroad.
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>> You folks seem, collectively, to be recommending Princess and HAL as the
>> preferred cruise lines to Alaska. Any comments pro/con re alternatives
>> such as Celebrity?
>
> I've done 3 Princess sailings and about 14 Celebrity sailings. Celebrity
> is my line of choice given bang for my buck (if I had a lot of Microsoft
> stock I'd be on Crystal). If it was me, I'd take either the Celebrity
> ship Summit or Infinity. Both of those are the newest Millennium class
> ships.
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> --Tom
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