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Flights have been smooth sailing so far. One more to go! All our layovers are during meal times so we're just eating our way through travel day 🥴 We're following the situation with Sapphore Princess but not going to worry about something that hasn't happened yet!!

That's how I read it as well. Then the next one for Sapphire is departing Canada Place on 5/25 and arriving Pine Island 5/26, which would be correct for the 5/25 sailing.

Wait, what?

🤢🤮 We avoid the buffet.

@Incredimom have an amazing trip, despite the rough start. I hope it is everything you want it to be!!! 🤩

Thank you! I'm glad to hear that about your orca cruise 🙂 I've tried to keep this more focused on Alaska and less on Princess, so I'm glad to hear it's been helpful!

Day 0: Is the day before you leave counted as Day 0? I have no idea if I'm using that correctly. Oh well! We're getting the last of our house chores done today, loving on our puppy lots, and finishing packing (or in DH's case, starting AND finishing packing). Sapphire Princess had some propulsion issues and were late getting into Vancouver yesterday and very late leaving. They are skipping Ketchikan. Crossing my fingers that the issue has been resolved...but whatever happens, we'll deal with it! It might surprise you to know that despite my OCD tendencies towards over-planning, once the actual trip comes we are both 'go with the flow' kind of people. I do always have some Plan Bs in my head if needed! 😂 Weather forecast for most of the places we are visiting is 50s and cloudy with a chance of rain. That's good enough for me! Seward's forecast isn't quite as promising, with highs in the low 40s and a greater chance of rain. We're prepared to be chilly on our orca quest cruise and our kayak tour 😬 Luckily for all of you who are sick of reading my ramblings, this will probably be my last long post until after the trip. Since I'll be on my phone, any live updates I share will be short and sweet! (Have I mentioned I hate typing on my phone??)

It looks like they are underway and are deviating from their usual route by sailing west of Vancouver Island. Maybe because of scheduling issues?

People boarding today received an email that boarding will be 3-5pm and not to show up before 3pm. Following since we're on the 18th. 🤞

We saw the Northern lights last night!

Booked it out of work a little early and I am officially on vacay!!! Still checking some things off the to do list before we leave in 3 days.

I have seen rave reviews for this excursion!

I did a trial packing run and had to remove a few items due to not enough space. We try really hard to stick to one 25" checked bag each and one backpack each. We get free checked bags because I have United and Alaska Airlines credit cards. I'm about 90% packed and DH is 0% packed 😅

Here's a link to the Chase/United rules: https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/travel/baggage/free-bags-for-cardmembers.html#:~:text=You must be a Cardmember,for the free bag benefit. Under the Terms and Conditions, it states "Unpublished fares, such as those purchased on priceline.com and Hotwire, are not eligible for the free bag benefit." I'm thinking EZAir flights would be treated the same way.

Yes. I cancelled prepaid water and it was refunded to my credit card in about a week. I didn't get any kind of notification so I just kept checking my card statement.