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Embarking on Ovation this upcoming Friday and wondered how the past few cruises have been? Curious as to how the service and crowds have been. Any tips on things that should not be missed while on the ship? In regards to the ports, I think I have researched and came up with a fairly decent gameplan. Any tips or suggestions to what I might have missed? Sitka: tour on our own .. want to go Sitka National Park Skagway: White Pass Scenic railway Juneau: Whale Watching and Mendenhall Glacier Victoria: City tour with PediCab

You can purchase your all day pass through the Mount Roberts tramway website. They are cheaper than our cruiseline had them for.

Has anyone done the pedicab when in Victoria BC? I am not able to walk long distances and thought this would be a great way to see the sights? Does anyone have any pros/cons or insight they would like to share about these?

Rent through Scootaround.

We used "Scootaround". They specialize in renting scooters and other equipment to vacationers and cruises

We have a couple of people in our traveling party that will be renting scooters to use onboard our Ovation cruise to Alaska in a couple of weeks. The company we are renting through says we are welcome to use the scooters off the ship and in the ports of call but it would be at the discretion of the cruise line and ship. Does anyone have any experience with this? Can we take rented scooters off the ship? Any concerns? Thanks in advance for your help!!

THANK YOU so much for all the helpful info and travel day tips!! I am sharing this with our group now!!

Thank you all for your help!! We decided on Premier Airport Shuttle to get us from pier to the airport the morning we disembark. But now we are looking at best way to get from our hotel in downtown Seattle to Pier 91. Thinking Uber but worried about people in luggage. Will need to take several for our party of 13.

THANK YOU 🙂

I have heard or read somewhere that Pier 91 in Seattle to the Sea=Tac Airport is a flat rate if you take Uber or taxi. Can anyone confirm this or have knowledge of the cost?

Our travel group of 13 (aged 20-89) will be on the Ovation for the June 3rd sailing. We are so excited!! However I do have a few questions: 1:) Since this is our first Alaska cruise, we are wondering how calm the water is or if we should expect a lot of motion. We do have a couple that 2:) Does the ship provide any binoculars for guests to use while out on deck? 3:) Does RCCL have naturalists and speakers onboard giving talks about Alaska and things to look for in terms of wildlife, etc.

I am usually a Caribbean cruisers so this has never been something to look for. BUT.......we are heading to Alaska on the Ovation and wondering if the ships carry the packets of hot chocolate that we could get from the Windjammer. Would like to carry our own thermal cups and can use the packets to make hot chocolate for enjoying out on the decks. Any info would be appreciated!