Ketchikan tendering Koningsdam

[Skicruiser55]

Found out we will be tendering in Ketchikan and are at anchor 3.  How efficient is this process?  I assume they use ship’s tenders to do this.

 

[triiip42]

Hi, I do not have an answer for you as to the efficiency of tendering here but was curious as to what sailing you are on. We received the tendering notice last night. We are on Koningsdam, Aug 8th in Ketchikan. 

[Skicruiser55]

2 minutes ago, triiip42 said:

Hi, I do not have an answer for you as to the efficiency of tendering here but was curious as to what sailing you are on. We received the tendering notice last night. We are on Koningsdam, Aug 8th in Ketchikan. 

We are on the June 22 Koningsdam sailing.  There will be 6 ships in port - looks like Koningsdam alternates weeks with Eurodam on who has to tender.  6 ships in port will be a nightmare for sure.  Cruising to Alaska is so different from the first time I did it in 2001. I miss the old days.   I have booked a ship’s tour but husband is doing independent fishing trip.  

[triiip42]

On our date it lists our anchorage as ANR. I haven't been able to figure that location out yet. But It doesn't show pier #2 as being used that day, at least not on the port schedule I was looking at.

Not that we can change anything and we will make the best of it ,but the tendering will definitely cut into our time ashore. We will have our 13 year old granddaughter with us for her first cruise so we will rethink a couple of things here. It is all apart of the adventure.😀

[Kirsten T]

Check out the Ketchikan port site - there's an explanation of the tendering floats on the main page: https://www.ketchikan.gov/port

 

Looks like ANR is the Ryus float at the north end of Berth 2 (KTN ANR ANCHOR-TENDER TO RYUS FLOAT) according to the Cruise Lines Agencies of Alaska https://claalaska.com/?page_id=1551 which is a pretty good schedule source for all Alaska ports. 

Looks like a very, very busy Alaska cruise season this year. I've never tendered in Ketchikan before, but we'll be doing it a few weeks after you, also on Kdam. As you say - it'll be an adventure 🤣

[wolfie11]

27 minutes ago, Kirsten T said:

Check out the Ketchikan port site - there's an explanation of the tendering floats on the main page: https://www.ketchikan.gov/port

 

Looks like ANR is the Ryus float at the north end of Berth 2 (KTN ANR ANCHOR-TENDER TO RYUS FLOAT) according to the Cruise Lines Agencies of Alaska https://claalaska.com/?page_id=1551 which is a pretty good schedule source for all Alaska ports. 

Looks like a very, very busy Alaska cruise season this year. I've never tendered in Ketchikan before, but we'll be doing it a few weeks after you, also on Kdam. As you say - it'll be an adventure 🤣

68 ships this year vs 50 last year

[Kirsten T]

That's a big increase, considering the size of the ships. 

[Coral]

I tendered once on a smaller ship (about 77,000 tons). It worked because I had a longer day there and really had no plans. I wasn't in a rush to get off. Where they dropped us off was right in the center.

 

Those with cruise ship tours go first.

 

If I remember correctly, when I exited it was low tide and there was a steep staircase to climb to get to land level.