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RCL logic - my timing queue for peoples that followed RC recommendations and reserved ahead of time - 30 minutes.  Queue for non reservations- 5 minutes,  guess which line we choose ... #beingPunishesForDoingTheRightThing

Ice cream cost money in the WJ. Remember it use to free ? 
 

Day 4 Skagway. 

I know I am behind but had some good reasons (excuses  excuses) . Internet not the best on the ship as expected from Alaska cruise and its not much better once in port. My Tmobile Internet is very poor , like back to the noisy modems days. 


Today we had a very late excursion (good holiday excuse ) so we started by just walking to the city. Although the port is very near by due to the avalanche last year they force you to take shuttle bus for a one minute drive to the pier end. After that we just walked to the "town" we visit some souvenirs shops (expensive as expected) and walk around enjoying the view.



We walked back to the ship to get ready for our excursion. We went to north star, hoping to tide it again and as we expected , although fully reserved no one came. We actually had almost 20 minutes private north star experience for ourselves.  Always try the ports day for such activities .





Our excursion was a ride on the road to the white pass summit, gold fever and Salmon dinner. The ride on the road was nice and we had several stops to take pictures. 


We went over to the Canadian side were we had to show our passports. The immigration officer  went on the bus and took a quick look on the passports , did not bother to look on  our passport,  I guess he knew I following @Lovetocruise2002 blogs and might thought we are star class 🙂 .
we had a 10 minutes stop at the Canadian side before heading to the US (the US immigration officer did not even bother to go on the bus).


 
Our next stop was the gold panning experience , what do you know we found 5 grains of gold , now for sure we can upgrade our next cruise.

Following the gold penning we had the lunch/ early dinner which contains salads, rice , BBQ chicken and fresh grilled Salmon (as many as you want) it was very tasty.

We returned to the pier at 4:50 , 10 minutes before all aboard to wait in a very long line to the shuttle. The line was quick and we went on the ship on the last minute. 
 
 
 
 
 

Day 4 Skagway. 

I know I am behind but had some good reasons (excuses  excuses) . Internet not the best on the ship as expected from Alaska cruise and its not much better once in port. My Tmobile Internet is very poor , like back to the noisy modems days. 


Today we had a very late excursion (good holiday excuse ) so we started by just walking to the city. Although the port is very near by due to the avalanche last year they force you to take shuttle bus for a one minute drive to the pier end. After that we just walked to the "town" we visit some souvenirs shops (expensive as expected) and walk around enjoying the view.



We walked back to the ship to get ready for our excursion. We went to north star, hoping to tide it again and as we expected , although fully reserved no one came. We actually had almost 20 minutes private north star experience for ourselves.  Always try the ports day for such activities .





Our excursion was a ride on the road to the white pass summit, gold fever and Salmon dinner. The ride on the road was nice and we had several stops to take pictures. 


We went over to the Canadian side were we had to show our passports. The immigration officer  went on the bus and took a quick look on the passports , did not bother to look on  our passport,  I guess he knew I following @Lovetocruise2002 blogs and might thought we are star class 🙂 .
we had a 10 minutes stop at the Canadian side before heading to the US (the US immigration officer did not even bother to go on the bus).


 
Our next stop was the gold panning experience , what do you know we found 5 grains of gold , now for sure we can upgrade our next cruise.

Following the gold penning we had the lunch/ early dinner which contains salads, rice , BBQ chicken and fresh grilled Salmon (as many as you want) it was very tasty.

We returned to the pier at 4:50 , 10 minutes before all aboard to wait in a very long line to the shuttle. The line was quick and we went on the ship on the last minute. 
 
 
 
 
 

Day 1 - Seattle.
The Jetlag again to the best of us and we were woken around 4 am, after all its a cruise day.  We tried to force some sleep but at the end we just decided to pack and get organized. At 6:45 we did our way again to Starbucks Reserve to catch breakfast,  as you can see we really liked this place (and not many things open so early).

After enjoying our time there we went back to the hotel and booked Uber to the port. The Uber cost 37$ which was better than the 55$ which offered by the hotel. Around 10:15 we arrived to the  port and started the check in process. Everything was very fast compared to the horror stories I was reading about Seattle port. 10 minutes after,  we were waiting in the holding area to start boarding. They started boarding two minutes after with suite,  pinnacles and keys , we were next. The nice thing they done was locating the ship security gates outside the ship allowing many more swiping cards  stations, preventing lines in the ship entry. After boarding and completing the muster check in we went to eat our first lunch in 270, it was quite good. We continued to the music hall to use the pool table were we competing who was the worse in this game, I think I won. We then visit the WJ just to see it had huge lines so we decided to catch something in Ship&chips.  I thought it's extra money venue but apparently it was free beside the lobster. I took the fish sandwich which was good. We booked the north star which is free for port days and watch the nice view of Seattle. 




By that time the cabin was ready so we unpacked and got organized. Still don't understand why they have power outlets only in one side of the bad , are they getting percentages from some marriage consulting organizations? 
For sail away we went to to deck 15

Although we had a nice view also from the cabin
For first day dinner we decided to go to the Solarium Bistro (you can understand by now, no CK access this time) the full meal was self service not like before were some of the dishes you needed to order. It was so so, I really wanted to catch the chef to explain him how to prepare Falfel and how to handle the Thaini , hint , you don't serve it raw. I still think it's not a bad option for first day. We went to check what we missed in the WJ, which was quite empty , they served some chops and had nice desserts. 


 
We went back to the room to take some rest before visiting the very packed casino. We called it early , as we were tired although next day is a sea day.

 

Day 5 Stika .
We arrived early to the port (which did boy prevent for keep sleeping or at least trying). We did not jad special excursion for today just to go and visit Stila on our own as it seems easy place to do so. We went fir a quick bite and a coffee in the diamond club, I happy to say the coffee machine was working perfectly during the entire time.

We went down to the pier to catch the complimentary shuttle bus to "down town" Stika , it took around 7 minutes and the driver share some information about Stika. We arrived to the shuttle center and took some nice pictures from the nearest view point, there was a queue there but we successfully took some photos. 



We started doing our way to Stika national park , it's taken around 15 minutes in a very nice sidewalk which takes also to a boardwalk with a view over the water with many birds and other animals (we saw few seals and what we decided sea otters) 



 
The national park center is the star point for easy round trips inside the forest that contains also many impressive totem poles polls. We spend 40 minutes there before starting our way back to the town center.




Now who said tree Ents dose not exist ?

 

We passed by the place were the salmons come to spawn , unfortunately for many of the is also the place they come to die , let's just say we skipped the Salmon chowder for lunch. At that time it started to rain and it never stopped, not heavy rain just annoying one. We decided it's a good time for lunch and we went to the small Russian restaurant that call Pelmeni , they serve Russian dumplings ( this is more like tortellini or some may know it as Kreplach) they serve it with or potato or meat topped with vinegar, hot sauce and sour cream. They cost 9 $ for a plate which is one of the best deals in town.

It was tasty. There are also many food trucks around selling different chowders, crab sandwiches and hot dogs.

I think from all our 3 Alaskan stops Stika is the most beautiful . 
We had enough of the tain so we catches the shuttle back to the ship. Dinner was at the WJ we found several good things there Today we finally got to see Spectra. As always story line was not that important but they really took advantage using all the equipment and technology of the 270, impressive

 

Day 5 Stika .
We arrived early to the port (which did boy prevent for keep sleeping or at least trying). We did not jad special excursion for today just to go and visit Stila on our own as it seems easy place to do so. We went fir a quick bite and a coffee in the diamond club, I happy to say the coffee machine was working perfectly during the entire time.

We went down to the pier to catch the complimentary shuttle bus to "down town" Stika , it took around 7 minutes and the driver share some information about Stika. We arrived to the shuttle center and took some nice pictures from the nearest view point, there was a queue there but we successfully took some photos. 



We started doing our way to Stika national park , it's taken around 15 minutes in a very nice sidewalk which takes also to a boardwalk with a view over the water with many birds and other animals (we saw few seals and what we decided sea otters) 



 
The national park center is the star point for easy round trips inside the forest that contains also many impressive totem poles polls. We spend 40 minutes there before starting our way back to the town center.




Now who said tree Ents dose not exist ?

 

We passed by the place were the salmons come to spawn , unfortunately for many of the is also the place they come to die , let's just say we skipped the Salmon chowder for lunch. At that time it started to rain and it never stopped, not heavy rain just annoying one. We decided it's a good time for lunch and we went to the small Russian restaurant that call Pelmeni , they serve Russian dumplings ( this is more like tortellini or some may know it as Kreplach) they serve it with or potato or meat topped with vinegar, hot sauce and sour cream. They cost 9 $ for a plate which is one of the best deals in town.

It was tasty. There are also many food trucks around selling different chowders, crab sandwiches and hot dogs.

I think from all our 3 Alaskan stops Stika is the most beautiful . 
We had enough of the tain so we catches the shuttle back to the ship. Dinner was at the WJ we found several good things there Today we finally got to see Spectra. As always story line was not that important but they really took advantage using all the equipment and technology of the 270, impressive

 

I'm sorry i am very behind, but you're posting some amazing pics!

Day 5 Stika .
We arrived early to the port (which did boy prevent for keep sleeping or at least trying). We did not jad special excursion for today just to go and visit Stila on our own as it seems easy place to do so. We went fir a quick bite and a coffee in the diamond club, I happy to say the coffee machine was working perfectly during the entire time.

We went down to the pier to catch the complimentary shuttle bus to "down town" Stika , it took around 7 minutes and the driver share some information about Stika. We arrived to the shuttle center and took some nice pictures from the nearest view point, there was a queue there but we successfully took some photos. 



We started doing our way to Stika national park , it's taken around 15 minutes in a very nice sidewalk which takes also to a boardwalk with a view over the water with many birds and other animals (we saw few seals and what we decided sea otters) 



 
The national park center is the star point for easy round trips inside the forest that contains also many impressive totem poles polls. We spend 40 minutes there before starting our way back to the town center.




Now who said tree Ents dose not exist ?

 

We passed by the place were the salmons come to spawn , unfortunately for many of the is also the place they come to die , let's just say we skipped the Salmon chowder for lunch. At that time it started to rain and it never stopped, not heavy rain just annoying one. We decided it's a good time for lunch and we went to the small Russian restaurant that call Pelmeni , they serve Russian dumplings ( this is more like tortellini or some may know it as Kreplach) they serve it with or potato or meat topped with vinegar, hot sauce and sour cream. They cost 9 $ for a plate which is one of the best deals in town.

It was tasty. There are also many food trucks around selling different chowders, crab sandwiches and hot dogs.

I think from all our 3 Alaskan stops Stika is the most beautiful . 
We had enough of the tain so we catches the shuttle back to the ship. Dinner was at the WJ we found several good things there Today we finally got to see Spectra. As always story line was not that important but they really took advantage using all the equipment and technology of the 270, impressive

 

RCL logic - my timing queue for peoples that followed RC recommendations and reserved ahead of time - 30 minutes.  Queue for non reservations- 5 minutes,  guess which line we choose ... #beingPunishesForDoingTheRightThing

In RCL terms , Gelato is ice cream which you can charge for 🙂 . 

Ice cream cost money in the WJ. Remember it use to free ? 
 

Day 4 Skagway. 

I know I am behind but had some good reasons (excuses  excuses) . Internet not the best on the ship as expected from Alaska cruise and its not much better once in port. My Tmobile Internet is very poor , like back to the noisy modems days. 


Today we had a very late excursion (good holiday excuse ) so we started by just walking to the city. Although the port is very near by due to the avalanche last year they force you to take shuttle bus for a one minute drive to the pier end. After that we just walked to the "town" we visit some souvenirs shops (expensive as expected) and walk around enjoying the view.



We walked back to the ship to get ready for our excursion. We went to north star, hoping to tide it again and as we expected , although fully reserved no one came. We actually had almost 20 minutes private north star experience for ourselves.  Always try the ports day for such activities .





Our excursion was a ride on the road to the white pass summit, gold fever and Salmon dinner. The ride on the road was nice and we had several stops to take pictures. 


We went over to the Canadian side were we had to show our passports. The immigration officer  went on the bus and took a quick look on the passports , did not bother to look on  our passport,  I guess he knew I following @Lovetocruise2002 blogs and might thought we are star class 🙂 .
we had a 10 minutes stop at the Canadian side before heading to the US (the US immigration officer did not even bother to go on the bus).


 
Our next stop was the gold panning experience , what do you know we found 5 grains of gold , now for sure we can upgrade our next cruise.

Following the gold penning we had the lunch/ early dinner which contains salads, rice , BBQ chicken and fresh grilled Salmon (as many as you want) it was very tasty.

We returned to the pier at 4:50 , 10 minutes before all aboard to wait in a very long line to the shuttle. The line was quick and we went on the ship on the last minute. 
 
 
 
 
 

Day 3 - Juneau.
Today our first sea day  we arrived to Juneau at 1 PM. Breakfast was at the WJ , they have there a nice cook to orders ege which you ask for what you want and they give you this device which is vibrates when it's ready.




Before arriving Juneau we had very mice view of the inner passage,  which made me  thankful for heaving a balcony.




For Juneau we booked long time ago to go to the Mendenhall Glacier.  Unfortunately due to finishing all the quota for this year it was canceled.  Royal gave us 50 $ as a compensation which was nice of the. The alternative excursion we booked was the whales watching.  We had a nice weather so we hot to see a glimpse of the Glacier from the boat. We did see some whales  , not many pictures as I used the binoculars to watch them , but maybe I will extract some tails from the video I took. 



When we came back we went to check the famous Tracy crab place. It was packed with long line took us 40 minutes to get in. It was very tasty but not sure I will wait again that long for it. Back on the ship we were quite tired from the long day so we felt a sleep very quickly,  there is jetlag for you. 

In RCL terms , Gelato is ice cream which you can charge for 🙂 . 

RCL logic - my timing queue for peoples that followed RC recommendations and reserved ahead of time - 30 minutes.  Queue for non reservations- 5 minutes,  guess which line we choose ... #beingPunishesForDoingTheRightThing

In RCL terms , Gelato is ice cream which you can charge for 🙂 . 

Ice cream cost money in the WJ. Remember it use to free ? 
 

Ice cream cost money in the WJ. Remember it use to free ? 
 

Ice cream cost money in the WJ. Remember it use to free ? 
 

And I've realized I've left you hanging ....
We did go to Blaze last night, but they were holding the comedy show there. So no dancing, no clubbing. 
That would've been the safer bet. 
I refer you back to the title of this blog ...
So then we tried Playmakers again, which was mad stupid considering it was Monday night. 
We then thought we'd try the Schooner Bar. Is the Schooner Bar the old people hang out? I mean i know we're old, but we do not yet have matching haircuts old. 
So we wound up back with Jackson at G&A.
Big mistake. 
Huge. 
The second he saw us, i saw the beginnings of lemon drop shots which we did not order. 
Batman said, nah, they aren't for us. 
I'll let you figure out where that went. And it ends with us not being rude and refusing them. It was the polite thing to do after all. 
Not pictured: said first round of lemon drop shots. 

 

 
 

 

 
We are taking it slow today and tonight because we although we're idiotically unfrugal, i did not spend $1799 +tax for us 2 idiots to sleep in our OTW cabana all day tmw. (Even more stupid ... $1799 was a great price! It climbed to over $2400).
Dinner tonight at CK and then some Headliner show. And if we're smart, bed. 
However,  I think we've all figured out by now that "smart" doesn't exactly belong in this blog ....
 
 

Day 4 Skagway. 

I know I am behind but had some good reasons (excuses  excuses) . Internet not the best on the ship as expected from Alaska cruise and its not much better once in port. My Tmobile Internet is very poor , like back to the noisy modems days. 


Today we had a very late excursion (good holiday excuse ) so we started by just walking to the city. Although the port is very near by due to the avalanche last year they force you to take shuttle bus for a one minute drive to the pier end. After that we just walked to the "town" we visit some souvenirs shops (expensive as expected) and walk around enjoying the view.



We walked back to the ship to get ready for our excursion. We went to north star, hoping to tide it again and as we expected , although fully reserved no one came. We actually had almost 20 minutes private north star experience for ourselves.  Always try the ports day for such activities .





Our excursion was a ride on the road to the white pass summit, gold fever and Salmon dinner. The ride on the road was nice and we had several stops to take pictures. 


We went over to the Canadian side were we had to show our passports. The immigration officer  went on the bus and took a quick look on the passports , did not bother to look on  our passport,  I guess he knew I following @Lovetocruise2002 blogs and might thought we are star class 🙂 .
we had a 10 minutes stop at the Canadian side before heading to the US (the US immigration officer did not even bother to go on the bus).


 
Our next stop was the gold panning experience , what do you know we found 5 grains of gold , now for sure we can upgrade our next cruise.

Following the gold penning we had the lunch/ early dinner which contains salads, rice , BBQ chicken and fresh grilled Salmon (as many as you want) it was very tasty.

We returned to the pier at 4:50 , 10 minutes before all aboard to wait in a very long line to the shuttle. The line was quick and we went on the ship on the last minute. 
 
 
 
 
 

You are right they rare as lobster at day 1 🙂

Day 4 Skagway. 

I know I am behind but had some good reasons (excuses  excuses) . Internet not the best on the ship as expected from Alaska cruise and its not much better once in port. My Tmobile Internet is very poor , like back to the noisy modems days. 


Today we had a very late excursion (good holiday excuse ) so we started by just walking to the city. Although the port is very near by due to the avalanche last year they force you to take shuttle bus for a one minute drive to the pier end. After that we just walked to the "town" we visit some souvenirs shops (expensive as expected) and walk around enjoying the view.



We walked back to the ship to get ready for our excursion. We went to north star, hoping to tide it again and as we expected , although fully reserved no one came. We actually had almost 20 minutes private north star experience for ourselves.  Always try the ports day for such activities .





Our excursion was a ride on the road to the white pass summit, gold fever and Salmon dinner. The ride on the road was nice and we had several stops to take pictures. 


We went over to the Canadian side were we had to show our passports. The immigration officer  went on the bus and took a quick look on the passports , did not bother to look on  our passport,  I guess he knew I following @Lovetocruise2002 blogs and might thought we are star class 🙂 .
we had a 10 minutes stop at the Canadian side before heading to the US (the US immigration officer did not even bother to go on the bus).


 
Our next stop was the gold panning experience , what do you know we found 5 grains of gold , now for sure we can upgrade our next cruise.

Following the gold penning we had the lunch/ early dinner which contains salads, rice , BBQ chicken and fresh grilled Salmon (as many as you want) it was very tasty.

We returned to the pier at 4:50 , 10 minutes before all aboard to wait in a very long line to the shuttle. The line was quick and we went on the ship on the last minute. 
 
 
 
 
 

Day 4 Skagway. 

I know I am behind but had some good reasons (excuses  excuses) . Internet not the best on the ship as expected from Alaska cruise and its not much better once in port. My Tmobile Internet is very poor , like back to the noisy modems days. 


Today we had a very late excursion (good holiday excuse ) so we started by just walking to the city. Although the port is very near by due to the avalanche last year they force you to take shuttle bus for a one minute drive to the pier end. After that we just walked to the "town" we visit some souvenirs shops (expensive as expected) and walk around enjoying the view.



We walked back to the ship to get ready for our excursion. We went to north star, hoping to tide it again and as we expected , although fully reserved no one came. We actually had almost 20 minutes private north star experience for ourselves.  Always try the ports day for such activities .





Our excursion was a ride on the road to the white pass summit, gold fever and Salmon dinner. The ride on the road was nice and we had several stops to take pictures. 


We went over to the Canadian side were we had to show our passports. The immigration officer  went on the bus and took a quick look on the passports , did not bother to look on  our passport,  I guess he knew I following @Lovetocruise2002 blogs and might thought we are star class 🙂 .
we had a 10 minutes stop at the Canadian side before heading to the US (the US immigration officer did not even bother to go on the bus).


 
Our next stop was the gold panning experience , what do you know we found 5 grains of gold , now for sure we can upgrade our next cruise.

Following the gold penning we had the lunch/ early dinner which contains salads, rice , BBQ chicken and fresh grilled Salmon (as many as you want) it was very tasty.

We returned to the pier at 4:50 , 10 minutes before all aboard to wait in a very long line to the shuttle. The line was quick and we went on the ship on the last minute.