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Amazing photos and thanks for sharing your experience! We went out with Marv and Harv on June 11th and the whales were sleeping / slowly swimming and didn't breach. Probably because they breached so much here!!!

We did both in 1 day but we were in port from 7 am to 7pm. Mt Roberts Tramway, depending on how busy the port is and the weather like others say, may not be worth it and I would buy ticket the day of. We hiked around and it was a nice hike with decent view and some wild life to take pictures of. Mendenhall was nice and we took the blue bus. Bought the ticket the day of as well. We hiked to Nugget Falls and took another smaller trail. The family liked Mendenhall more.

For Sapphire Princess, it was done as a lunch during our sailing.

They offered crab shack during lunch time (12 to 1:30) at Sabatini's on Sapphire for the 2 sea days we had going southbound from Whittier. One of the initial first 2 scenic cruising days... I forgot which one... and the other right after Ketchikan before Vancouver. Maybe @sirclean can confirm which of the 2 scenic cruising days they did crab shack.

The popcorn shrimp and hush puppies was more hush puppies and not a lot of shrimp. We got the Alaskan seafood chowder. And most of us paid extra and got our own buckets instead of sharing. I didn't take pictures of the desserts nor the Alaskan seafood pot.

Menu on the sapphire princess.

Ohhh I'm so jealous. We are on Sapphire princess and were also in Ketchikan with Ruby and Majestic yesterday. By the time we got back from excursions the jellyfish donut shop already sold out for the day! DH is definitely sad about missing the salmon donuts. He said he read about them in a book in his childhood.

It was 7pm for us. The piazza was filled with people everywhere on all levels and on the stairs as well. We caught a quick look and then went to our dinner.

Thank for for sharing the beautiful photos @AKStafford! I told the DH about Spencer Glacier and float and he said he only wants to take one train this trip and we already met the quota with the skagway train to lake bennett! I'm a train person and would love to be on all trains. Maybe I can try to sneak another train in. I heard the drive from whittier to anchorage is one of the most scenic drives in the world!

Seems like there are just more and more things we should do! Thanks for all the recommendation I heard the seafood chowder on Philips glacier is pretty delicious as well. Thank you for sharing your experience!

Thank you @Glaciers! We are eyeing the Spencer iceberg float. That seems very fun. The hike is definitely an option. Do you recommend one over the other? We are in port for so long I think we may have time to do all!!!

Thanks!!! I'll keep 26 glacier cruise on my list then. Quick search shows no car rental avail on that day (7th). I'll look harder. Driving on unfamiliar roads and accounting for the one way tunnel is semi stressful 🫠

Hi fellow cruisers, We are heading to Alaska for B2B on Sapphire Princess May 31 - June 14. Currently the only avail cruise excursion from Princess on turnaround day is the 26 Glacier Cruise. We are hoping with 2 days of scenic cruising before and 2 days of scenic cruising right after Whittier, we can go out and stretch our legs a bit. Any recommendation for other tours / things to do in Whittier / Anchorage without a rental car? Would be great if we can do a Glacier Hike but I believe Matanuska is too far. We are also interested in other hikes / wildlife conservation centre. All the tour companies I've seen offer one way transfers with tours. The cruise gets to Whittier around 12:30 AM and leaves at 8:30 PM. Thanks in advance!

Following your journey as well! We will be on the Sapphire in June for Alaska and can't wait. First time on grand class ships.

Yup this. We got gluttony and ordered 2 entries each. 😉

We had 1 dining experience at Crown Grill at Regal this past October because we got a free voucher and found the steak not as well prepared (much more overcooked) as the main dining rooms. We also paid extra to have the sea bass and that was decent.

Not sure if they are trying to make me be healthier on the cruises. Smoothies and more fitness classes, maybe. Desserts... most definitely not😆

Oh thank you for sharing this. I thought I was going insane with the website going in and out when I try to book.

The Alaska cruise we were eyeing also went up 400pp for the black Friday sale as compared to the love boat. The ship is already very full though. But at least more rooms opened up for reservations vs guaranteed assignment. Fingers crossed for price drops or other perks before final payment.

DH won the egg drop on our last cruise with Regal in October and they gave us a Princess water bottle and a drawstring bag. 😄

Has anyone received any correspondence or used Bonjour Provence Tours recently? I booked a tour on their website and have follow up questions but haven't gotten responses in a few days. They seem to have great reviews on TripAdvisor and some mentioned here as well. Thanks in advance.

That's awesome!!! My cancelled flight is no longer part of the personalizer... fingers crossed maybe some miracle will happen.

That's re-assuring. Fingers crossed. I'm willing to wait 3-5 days and see what's up. I hope none of us will have to cancel our cruise.

Similar story here. My MIL's flights got cancelled for no reason by AC according to Princess and the flights are not until October!!! I thought they are only cancelling July and August flights. Now I'm scrambling to figure out what's going to happen because it was ezair flex and we didn't do early ticketing. The same itinerary (same flights too so why did they cancel) are 1000+ more. Conspiracy theory is that they promised the tickets for too cheap so they are now backing out. 😅