I haven't been to Alaska yet either but from reading the Alaska ports of
call board on CruiseCritic it seems Glacier Bay is a must do also.
You can't go there on RCI or X. They do Hubbard Glacier which isn't bad from
what I read.
Bill
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"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:
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>> 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?
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> 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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