Happily@Sea

Eurodam passing Grand Island. K'dam is a decent distance behind her.

19 minutes ago, triiip42 said:

What site do you use to see this?

The Juneau Harbor webcam listed in first post. Just below the live screen is a link to marinetraffic.com.  There is a refresh icon in the upper right corner and scrolling moves the map in and out.

Both ships are outside of Tracy Arm, Eurodam slightly in the lead. Both moving at just about the same speed.

57 minutes ago, Steerpike58 said:

One difference between HA and Viking that I've noticed while booking the excursions for our cruise seems to be 'shuttles' into town.  It seems like HA charge for nothing but a coach into town and back. With Viking, they provided coach shuttles at no cost. Eg - Athens (Piraeus) - 

 

HA: 

This transfer may suit you if you would like to explore on your own. It consists of a motorcoach ride from the ship to the city. You will be dropped off at a central location, and your escort will show you to the Old Town (Plaka) area and advise you of the pick-up time for the return journey. You will have approximately two hours and twenty minutes to shop and explore on your own.

 

Viking - in Athens (Pireaus), they just ran a coach to and from a central pickup location and published a schedule for the pickups (roughly every 30 mins or hour, with the last one clearly identified).  This was free, and as noted gave you as much or as little time in town as you wanted.  I do see that HA are providing an 'escort' to get you to Plaka. Google Maps did a fine job as our escort on Viking 🙂

 

So this is another way HA is charging for something that Viking 'build in' to their (much higher) price. So far, we've run up an 'excursion' cost of about $2,200 ($1,100 each), minus $400 (200 each) HIA credit so $1,800 so far. Viking guarantee at least 1 free excursion per port, so our excursion costs tend to be lower on Viking. The HA approach would seem to favor those who prefer to organize their own excursions, since you aren't already paying (indirectly) for the 'included' ones with Viking. 

 

At the end of the day, it will be interesting to see just how much cheaper these HA cruises are going to be! 

 

 

This is the 'usual' for Viking. They built their reputation on river cruises and this is a normal perk of all river cruises - no matter the line. River cruises also park right downtown - at least in Europe. They have had years of training doing this - but is it really a bargain for ocean sailing ships or just an extra reason to raise their prices?? Only the cruiser choosing a cruise can answer.

And she is gone.

Kdam and Eurodam on Monday.

2/3 behind Quantum already and we lost our zoom. 😞

59 F today and sunny - Are we sure this is Juneau?? 🙂

A zoom from our cameraperson.

There is Zaandam - coming from behind Norw Spirit.

Passing Thane - should be anytime now - if we can see her around the view  blockers.

We do have a cameraperson, but don't know if that will really help the blockage.

Zaandam in Gastineau Channel - moving 13.9 knots.

Quantum otS will beat Zaandam in - blocking most of our view of Zaandam in the harbor. Same as last year.

Zaandam approaching Grand Island.

15 minutes ago, rafinmd said:

Cruisemapper (which uses satellite AIS rather than ground based has her just short of the Tracy Arm cutoff.

 

Roy

Thank you - tracker has her almost 14 hours stale now. Tracy Arm is about the place that the tracker usually kicks-in again.

Zaandam is over 12 hours stale - will check later.

Time for lunch for cameraperson? Zaandam Friday - my cheat sheet says 12:30 pm AST/4:30 EDT.

Thanks to my fellow addicts, to the cameraperson for our pictures [especially the zooms]. Thanks, Leanne, for the thread.

3 minutes ago, rafinmd said:

Easing into the berth.  Extra effort needed to slide the aft into the recessed berth.

 

Roy

So when we are looking across the AS and CT piers, the FKL pier is an illusion that it is right behind them - it looks attached rather than not being connected at all?

The roof is open a little, Brrr!

From the lines on the port side, she must not be backing in.

1 minute ago, ski ww said:

here is a nice zoom.

They like showing that banner on camera.

Nice complete view of NA.

NA not quite as high behind the containers - as Kdam was yesterday. Then she gets hidden by Bliss.

45 F in Juneau - at least it isn't raining.

NA coming from behind the tanks.

Cameraperson has given us a zoom, now we need NA.

Passing Thane - shouldn't be long now.