SusiejaneUK

Hello CC, We are mainly Celebrity devotees but want to do our first trip to Alaska and HAL have been recommended. We are looking at a 14 day land/cruise of which only 4 days in on the cruise (the ship is Zaandam) in June. My DH is looking at an OV cabin as it is only 4 days on the cruise and I have also seen recommendations that you should get a balcony on an Alaskan cruise. With this in mind, I wondered if you could give us some advice on the following: Even though it is only 4 days, would you recommend a Balcony cabin for our first trip to Alaska If you book an OV or even an Inside cabin, are the accommodations on the land tour part of the trip, correspondingly less attractive ? I understand the Zaandam is the oldest ship in the fleet - could any recent cruisers on board her recommend or not choosing this ship ? Thank you in advance for any help/insight

We are (hopefully) going on Eclipse on 3rd October out of Honolulu. We are trying to source a 3 night pre - cruise hotel and wondered if this was something Celebrity could help us with if we booked the cruise through a TA. I have tried to get through to Celebrity to ask the question, but after an hour of waiting and then the website being down (I tried to e mail), I was hoping someone on CC could help ! Thanks in advance