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Disembarkation was smooth. We are off the ship and waiting for our arranged transport. We turned in the Canadian Declaration form. There was no passport or ArriveCan check at the port. All in all a good cruise. The wifi was very frustrating but everything else was good. We had a nice stateroom, great food and the best scenery!

I meant the wifi speed was very slow late last night, but after midnight....so it would be one calendar day before flying.

Final day at sea. Chilly and windy. Here are a couple of photos taken late in the evening after we left Ketchikan. This morning we saw at least 5 whales spouts, tails and all not far from the ship as we continued on our way to Vancouver. Starting to plan the packing strategy and final purchases to use up a bit of leftover on board credit. At breakfast we saw a number of people doing Emed tests. People were helping each other when things were a little difficult. But it seems they were getting it done. Last night it probably would have been impossible due to ridiculously slow wifi speed. We had a really fun trip!

Right now on the Grand Princess download speed is averaging 2.0 and upload around 1.0 if lucky. We are near Ketchikan at the moment headed to Vancouver.

Ketchikan was cool, a bit rainy and overcast, but I always enjoy walking around the town and seeing the Creek Street area.

Barbara Z. Is indeed the future cruise consultant. We met with her yesterday to purchase more future cruise credits. 😀 If we see her again, we will say hello for you!

Pixel 5a cell phone.

We are midship and have spent time at the other end of the Promenade deck and deck 8 when looking at scenery. Not sure what is going on at the back end of Promenade deck.

Today was a beautiful day in Skagway...and it actually was very warm during the day in the mid to high 70°s. We had a lovely day..however we had No wifi when we were on board the ship until dinnertime. We were told it was due to our location. The wifi returned much stronger after sailaway. Sailaway was windy and cold. The temperature dropped and the clouds came in as we departed.

This letter ( sorry it is sideways) was on our bed when we returned from dinner. Masks are now required to be worn indoors except when eating or drinking or when in your own stateroom.

A few more photos from today in Glacier Bay!

She introduced herself as Liz. When I see her again, I'll give her your regards!

She said there were four parties ahead of us. We are having a fabulous time with family. We are not disappointed! It is a great itinerary and almost everything on the ship has been lovely.

We've had a lovely day in Glacier Bay. Sunny and clear. A couple of photos of the day. Tried to upload more, but wifi is not cooperating.

I chatted with Liz Pentz, the manager at the Loyalty desk. I think she said the cut off for this cruise is 245 days, so we almost made it. We have 236 days at sea. The luncheon is the final sea day, June 7th. We have made the cut off on several Alaska trips in the past.

Captain just did a little broadcast and in it indicated there are 1,387 passengers on board. The Grand can accommodate 3,100 passengers when at capacity. Hubbard Glacier was beautiful, but the captain told us the ship was unable to get as close as they planned due to strong winds. We watched the approach to the glacier from the bow of the ship on deck 8. It was very windy and it felt very cold. But if you went further back on deck in the sun there were passengers wearing shorts! It was a beautiful day. We had appetizers at the platinum and elite lounge up on One Five (on deck 15) before we get ready for dinner.

Beautiful day today. We started off with a delicious breakfast. We plan to spend a lot of time viewing Hubbard glacier this afternoon and have formal night dinner in the MDR before seeing the British Invasion show. So, we tried to book dinner reservations using the app but it would not work. It got to the point where it said there was no journey associated with this reservation. Then we tried booking it on the TV, but we could not add two more guests to the reservation. So, we booked "the old fashioned way", over the phone.

We did not arrive in Whittier until almost 5:00 pm. So we checked in immediately and tried to unpack, get organized and eat an dinner before sailaway. We have done the Alaska trip several times before, so we are very familiar with Whittier and the other ports. But this trip always astonishes us with the amazing beauty!

Sailing away shortly....

You read my mind. Going on deck now. Very excited as the weather is crystal clear, which is not typical for Whittier.

We are on board. Check in was a bit crazy. The medallion scrambled my passport information, removed my husband's passport information, but everything else was fine. They resolved it all quickly and we boarded within 10 minutes finalizing all the checking in matters. Our room is clean and nice. We called room service to change our mini bar into 2 coffee packages. Room service answered quickly and someone was in our stateroom within 5 minutes to switch out the mini bar. We grabbed a quick dinner in the buffet where food was either served by a crew member or properly portioned and plated to be taken by the passenger. Watching the muster drill safety video now and will check in with the muster station.

I will venture to start a semi-live cruise thread. We arrived in Anchorage last night around 7:00 p.m., traveling from Southwest Florida. We were originally supposed to arrive after 1:00 a.m. this morning, but we were able to change flights in Atlanta to get a direct 7 hour flight to Anchorage due to our original flights being over booked. And...they upgraded us to first class. It was amazing! We did our proctored BinaxNow tests on Monday through Emed and it was pretty simple. We usually go to Walgreens or CVS for testing, but they were not providing testing on Memorial Day and we flew out early Tuesday so we needed to do the antigen tests on Monday. We downloaded and completed the ArriveCAN app and uploaded our negative tests and vaccination cards to MedallionClass app. The only thing we were unable to do is select a boarding group. Anytime we tried it said selection was not yet a available. That app is truly useless. Yesterday the app said we were already at sea. Today it says our room is "not available" and also has deleted our purchase of the medallion net for the trip. I can't wait to see what happens at the port! Now we are getting ready to take the Alaska Cruise Transfer bus to the port. We booked the bus transfer that also stops at the Wildlife Center first. We should arrive at the port around 4:30 p.m. or so. I'll try to post periodically throughout the cruise, depending on internet cooperation.

So if flying on a Wednesday you can test anytime after midnight on Monday night ( because after midnight it would technically be Tuesday)? That is excellent news.

I entered the address for Vancouver International Airport.