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We were supposed to leave Juneau at 5:00pm. We were connected all day to shore power, once they disconnected from shore power the ship lost all power except emergency power. The ship reconnected to shore power within 15 minutes. The Captain spoke and said that they are trying to determine why we lost power. The Captain came on the speaker again about an hour later and said they are still trying to find the cause of loss of power. So we still are hooked up to shore power. We are due in Ketichan tomorrow arriving at 11:00am Departing 6:30pm. The Captain mention about 2 hours ago we will be late arriving to Ketichan I guess if we make it there at all.

We were just there just one excursion.

I am on a cruise in Alaska right now. In Juneau you can purchase whale watching cruise tour for $188.00 per person on the dock. For Skagway you can purchase train tickets at the station in town, 15 minute walk for $155.00 per person, In Ketichan we took city bus $2.00 exact cash per person each way to Totem Bright State Park. We were in Wittier and took independent 26 Glacier cruise with AAA discount was $390.00 total two people, people on ship paid $259.00 per person. We were on exact same cruise even sitting with people who were on HAL excursion. It is up to you, just so you know you have off ship options.

We are currently on Nieuw Amsterdam in Juneau. Thanks for the pictures. We came prepared for the rain. Heavier rain today than yesterday in Ketchikan.

We like the Grands and legendary voyages, the price per day is higher on those cruises than regular cruises. I am leaving tomorrow two weeks Alaska I am not expecting any extras.

Bon Voyage

Thank you for pointing this out, I have never noticed. I do like a few mixed drinks during my cruise but if this above is the case I will stick to wine.

Daniel was our CD on Grand Australia and New Zealand January to April 2024 he has a great sense of humour.

We are on Nieuw Amsterdam next Sunday July 14 first night on MDR menu that dessert is listed as well.

Two things. 1) as long as you had selected flexible fare and 2) you have not selected early ticketing, you can go into your booking and change your flight to what you would prefer. However I would suspect at this point as your flight is in November, prices will have increased. If you change your original booking you would have to pay current fare for whatever flight you are now going to choose.

Other site is reporting Denali opened today, July 5th. HAL customers were at Princess Lodge last night. Mckinley Chalet has power and water. What information as of today that you have that the park is closed. HAL Customers in Alaska indicate it is open.

Look at my post number 7. I break it down. OP is indicating with the new pricing model the cruise fare overall increases and the tax portion overall decreases. Read post number 7.

Yes you are correct. I am booked on a 14 day collector Alaska leaving in July so I paid ( in May, before the change) this is per person Canadian pricing by the way, so cruise portion is 1,058.69 and 734.67 for taxes. So I just did a check and used exact same cruise and parameters, I.e. leaving from Vancouver and returning to Vancouver 14 day Collector cruise, this cruise is leaving in September so again this is per person Canadian pricing, cruise portion is 1,894.07 and taxes are 179.04.

Considering both the shops and casino are closed while at port, and this was a 7 day cruise, as for his wife crying, I would cry as well, if my husband managed to spend $6,000 on extras for a 7 day cruise (or lost it in the casino). I am wondering if the OP as it was his first post, doesn't like a lot of his casino comp cruises and creates a new profile for each of his new complaints for his cruises as he is looking for freebies and when staff don't play along to people who are not rational, they are considered rude. I think customer service staff should get danger pay.

We see it once per year, it is not always on the first night. We have seen it three or more times. We only see it on longer cruises above 50 plus days. Won't watch on shorter cruises under 20 days.

What about Canaletto?

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We are on a collectors cruise in July, 14 nights, leave from and return Vancouver. Most people are doing 7 days, they either do the 7 cruise first then land portion, or land portion first and then cruise. Our last collectors voyage, Zaandam 2015 Alaska, same thing 14 days, (split into 7's for land portion people. I can't remember exactly how many collector people there, about 200, they had a special Indonesian lunch in MDR one day just for the collector people. I will post back in late July if they offered us collector people anything special.

I missed that extra promotion I booked two cruises in May 2024 one for July 2024 and the other for October 2024. That promotion here in Canada came out first or second week in June for new cruises. Promotion was just on for a week. Hopefully you get everything that is due.

I book with big box, I can log into my account, see the invoice open it up and can check all the onboard credit, I.e. check to see the shareholder and AARP has been added, I do that before the cruise, I also print that sheet off to bring with me. The onboard credit I get from big box does not come via cash o.b.c, on the ship but via a shop card only, they send an email indicating shop card is available, I can also go online and view all my shop cards. I am in Canada and we get shop cards, I just checked for U.S. customers from what I can see it might be shop cards there as well. It changed I think in the last five years we used to get cash on board credit, now just shop cards.

Ken, I am with you music wise and I can say that the Pinnacle Class Ships and the Rock Room is both our time and more that half of the productions shows right now have our music. We either do not like most of the 90's and later music. We are 50's music to 80's music. We don't like RAP music at all. We joke between ourselves that in about 10 years or so, it will no longer be our music time on the ship, we will think what the heck happened no more good music on the ship. Holland America has ruined it. LOL

Mike, thank you very much for all your posts. Very enjoyable read.

Glacier Bay

Bring layers, gloves, hat, rain jacket/ warm jacket as you might want to spend some time outside on the deck to enjoy scenery and icebergs.