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  1. If you get to Anchorage airport about 3:30 p.m. you can leave your luggage there. Maybe your airline will let you check in that early but if not you can leave your luggage at a luggage storage facility on the arrival level. Go to The millennium/lakefront Hotel. You can have dinner there and watch float planes take off and land. You could also go downtown. Take a 1 hour trolley tour for $25. Eat downtown. Then head back to the airport. A public bus runs every 15 or 20 minutes and a taxi or Uber will cost about $20 each way.
  2. You could spend the night in Anchorage and take the train or bus the next morning to Seward. You would still have a lot of time to explore Seward before you board the ship. The 6 hour Kenai Fjords trips are great, maybe Exit Glacier, maybe Sealife Center. Lots of options.
  3. Why not walk to New Sagaya Market on 13th Avenue? That might be the best to give you variety.
  4. When I cruise solo, I always get a shared table. But I specifically ask for a table of 6. Any more than that and you only have conversation with the person on either side of you. The larger tables are just too large to carry on a conversation with (or even to hear) others on the other side of the table.
  5. Another example of why it's never good to fly in the same day that the cruise ship departs.
  6. I guess it depends on each trip. I have had better experiences in ISP area (Pt. Adolphus) and better experiences in Juneau sometimes. YMMV.
  7. The main reason to do whale watching in ISP is that there is a lot more to do in Juneau besides whale watching. In ISP your options besides whale watching are limited.
  8. The issue with the natural history tour is that you can replicate 90% of that tour on your own for no charge normally when buses are operating. I strongly suggest you consider renting a car from keys to Denali. They will deliver the car to the canyon area where you are staying. Then you can drive on your own to mile 30. I would do that both in the morning and in the evening. I love Princess cruises but the land tours in Alaska leave much to be desired, even in the main tourist season which is memorial Day to Labor Day.
  9. I would have preferred the points. Used Gold card. But I don't turn down $175 😀
  10. It wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit if Princess sold the Island. I was on it a few years ago after the renovation when they took out some public areas and added more staterooms. Too crowded, lines for dining, theater, etc. No thanks. Never again.
  11. The bow of the Royal Princess has glass. You'll want to be on one side or the other on an upper outside deck. They should be at the glacier half the time with one side of the ship and the other half of the time with the other side of the ship facing the glacier. You're much better off on the open deck as you suggested rather than being on your balcony. You don't see nearly as much from the balconies.
  12. You usually start disembarking in Whittier about 6:30 a.m. or 7:00 a.m. you'll be lucky to get the 7:00 a.m. tunnel. Otherwise it would be 8:00 a.m. . The tunnel is only open for 15 minutes every hour in each direction. So if you take the 8:00 a.m. tunnel you might get to Anchorage by 9:30 or 10:00 a.m. very tight for an 11:15 a.m. departure. I definitely would not recommend it.
  13. Bingo. This is exactly how it works.
  14. 6% back on your gas purchase plus cash back using your credit card. Sounds like you know how to work the system well. I do it a lot as well.
  15. I would base insurance on the total trip price regardless of when you pay. Otherwise are you saying the money you paid for a deposit wouldn't be covered just like payments before final payment? I am 99% certain travel insurance doesn't work that way. You insure the total trip price regardless of when payments are made.
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