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Exactly, roll with it and it might disappear. Oh well. Maybe spend it before they take it. 🤣

Royal says ours is an overpayment…not sure how that is as we paid off the amount owed over 4 months ago, and the balance has been zero on every correspondence since.

I just checked my cruise planner and I’m $33.63 short on one cruise and $25 on another. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 

Just checked my cruise planner for May 2026 on Oasis…no suck luck!  Just the OBC from my TA 😞 

Just checked my cruise planner for May 2026 on Oasis…no suck luck!  Just the OBC from my TA 😞 

I love your take and perspective of my decision to leave. Right now, I am very happy with how my final contract is going so far, and I will certainly enjoy what time I have left onboard. I am confident this next phase of my life is going to surprise a lot of people! All will be revealed soon!

Yes sir! I'm looking forward to sharing some of the restricted areas for passengers,

That photo was funny.
One thing I will say is that we had only one great meal on our Alaskan cruise and we were in Juneau for that. Imho the cruise food was some of the worst and we were on Quantum. I think it has something to do with how long and expensive it is to get provision in Alaska. 

Yeah that was pretty funny. They were not amused by us. We think we are funny though 

+1

Laughing at the looks you are getting from that luggage photo 😂

We got checked in to our rooms at the Cabin. I should have taken some pictures, but I forgot. I know it’s a cabin, but wow those rooms were small. And the shower was even smaller than a cruise ship shower I think. I hit my elbow on the handle while showering and accidentally turned the water to freezing cold. Needless to say I was wide awake after that happened. My Aunt’s room and an awful smell so they got moved to a 2 double bed room which was good because their luggage wouldn’t have fit in the single double bed room I had. We then had dinner at the restaurant at the cabins called Prey.  I would not recommend. None of us really liked our meal. Then we had a 9pm midnight sun atv excursion. We rented just a single 4x4 that fit all of us. I think it would have been better if we each had our own ATV to ride, but other than that it was a pretty cool experience. 

this was taken at 10:30pm. It’s crazy how it’s light almost 24 hours and never truly gets dark 

Ok let’s play a little catch up since I’m on a bus ride right now. Sunday morning we had to be up and ready for Uber to get us to the train station by 7:15am. It was a short 5 min ride so pretty smooth and easy and I scheduled it the night before so didn’t have to worry about if it would be a wait to get one. We had the gold star class seating in the glass dome rail car from anchorage to Denali with breakfast and lunch and 2 free drinks provided. The trip was pretty smooth, but unfortunately it was cloudy so Denali was not visible at the 2 spots you can usually see it on the route. Was easy to find our shuttle to Denali Cabins once we got off the train. We didn’t have to get our luggage, after all passengers loaded the shuttle bus driver drove over and picked up all our luggage and loaded it in the shuttle. He said we broke a record and had to have about 5 bags in the shuttle with us that wouldn’t fit in the back. My Aunt and Uncles 8 bags for sure had something to do with that 

 
and then on the way to the cabin we scored seeing a moose right along the roadway 

So life has been crazy the last few months.  Youngest son in travel ball, a couple cruises with just me and a couple of the kids, a few trips to Austin to check on the restaurant, and wife taking Master's classes, we are ready for a vacation together!!  Writing this from the plane as I didn't have time to get this started before we left.  We did Alaska back in 2019 and loved it.  This trip was booked to celebrate my 45th birthday and our travel buddies (aunt and uncle) 40th wedding anniversary.  So we are trying to do this trip right.  
Itinerary:
July 12 - ORD to ANC Alaska Airlines.  Couldn't afford business class, but upgraded to premium to get some extra leg room for the flight.  
July 13 - Glass Dome Railroad to Denali National Park.  Midnight sun ATV tour.  Staying in Denali Cabins.  Originally wanted to stay in the back country lodges, but the road is still closed this year to get back there and flying back to them was not cost effective
July 14 - TBD...will be at Denali all day so probably do some hiking and figure out what else while there.  
July 15 - Motorcoach to Talkeetna.  Top of the World Tour to Denali with a glacier landing.  Staying at Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge
July 16 - Motorcoach to Seward.  Staying at Seward Windsong Lodge.  
July 17 - Northwestern Fjord Tour
July 18 - Hiking in Kenai National Park then board Radiance later afternoon
July 19 - Hubbard Glacier viewing
July 20 - Junaeu.  Still determing what we are going to do here.  might just go to Mendenhall Glacier Park and do some hiking, sight seeing, 
July 21 - Skagway.  White Pass Railroad and Yukon Suspension Bridge
July 22 - Icy Straight Point.  Whale Watching and Marine Mammals Cruise
July 23 - Ketchikan.  Hovercraft Eco Adventure & Wildlife Quest
July 24 - Inside Passage
July 25 - YVR to ORD American Airlines.....had points so going First Class here!!  
 
We did a 3nt dining package for the cruise and rest will either eat at the ports or do MDR.  
plan is to just take a ton of pictures and try to capture the beauty that is Alaska.  

33.63 is a very strange number. 😲 Wow. 

it's not just you, my TA is trying to find out for us why we suddenly have a $33.63 credit showing, appeared at noon today.

Huh this is very strange. I just logged in for fun as I always do to just check out our upcoming cruises and our Oasis cruise May 2026 has an unexpected 25 dollar cruise planner credit. does that just happen sometimes? I don't remember it happening on any other cruise but hey I'll take it. So along with this cruise dropping nearly 500 bucks we get a 25 dollar cruise planner credit. I don't think I got an email or anything, it just appeared.

WJ & MDR have free hard ice cream (at least on Wonder & Utopia).

My best excursion was going to the Crystal Caves and then spending time on a small beach near a Park Reserve.  There was a tiny bar/grill on the beach and we sat around drinking delicious Rum Swizzles…so delicious!  The driver of the shuttle was a young man who had grown up there.  He gave us so much local Bermudian information.  
Also really liked heading out to Horseshoe Bay Beach.  
I think your dates of travel will be very nice weather wise.
 

I’ve packed them in both…doesn’t make a difference just makes the carry on heavier!  And I’d rather have a heavier carry on than extra lbs in my checked luggage.  I need every available lb for my own items 😂 

Please delete my September 12, 2026 Icon and add September 13, 2026 STAR 😊 
Thank you!

3 days ago our cabin steward used one of our magnet hooks to hang a bath towel monkey from the ceiling. Symphony.

Ah, my misunderstanding. I have a sunset corner suite booked and my options for RoyalUp include Owners Suite, Icon Loft Suite, Royal Loft Suite, and Ultimate Family Townhouse.

We love Canadians here in the states, don't stress about all the stuff you read on the internet and see on the news.  Book a trip and plan on having a great time, there are a handful of Canadians here that cruise out of the states regularly and I'm sure they'll say the same.

Even if they did yank Mario's status (which they would never, ever do), it would take him no time to get back to being #1 again.