rplusr

We are just off Royal Princess after doing the Inaugural Caribbean Cruise and then the 7 day Eastern Caribbean.

When planning our holiday I was looking for a tour on Grand Turk rather than just spending time on a beach which really isn't our thing. In searching the internet I came across Island Trams (http://www.islandtrams.com) who do private tours.

After making inquiries with them I posted on our Roll Call for the Inaugural Cruise to see if anyone was interested and ended up getting over 60 who wanted to do the tour

The tour would take us around the island showing us the various sights and incorporating stops at some of the Pubs/Bars along the way.

Our tour day finally arrived (1st November) and we met Doug and his crew at White Sands Resort. We ended up with just on 60 doing the tour and had the tram to our selves.

Doug is very knowledgeable about his island and its history and his running commentary on the tour was very informative. We saw wild horses, donkeys, flamingos, the lighthouse, Cockburn Town, salt ponds, buildings going back hundreds of years. Of course we stopped at a number of bars along the way for a cold drink and something to eat if we wanted.

The cost was reasonable with us paying for the tram tickets and then we paid for our own food and drinks as we went along.

This was a really great day and I would highly recommend Doug and his crew.

Seeing as how it was such a great day 8 of us booked another 3 hour Pub Tour with Doug for our return on our 7 day Eastern Caribbean Tour. This proved to be another fun time and everyone thoroughly enjoyed our visits to some different Pubs/Bars. We watched the sun set at a bar on the beach, just amazing.

Happy travels

rplusr

We were also on the last cruise of the season for Golden Princess and we hired a van from Sourdough Rentals. There were 6 of us and for $USD140 for the day it was way cheaper than taking the ships tour.

We had an 8 seater van and although not a new vehicle it went well and was neat and tidy inside.

It was a great day for all of us and the scenery was some of the most amazing we have scene.

Definitely want to do this all over again.

Cheers

rplusr:)

Hi, :)

 

I'm from Australia and plan to travel to Alaska in 2012 with my Hubby and 17 year old son. We plan to fly to possibly Seattle (unless anyone can suggest a better place??? ):rolleyes:

 

We then would like to take a cruise through Alaska for maybe 7 nights then fly back to Australia or even stay a few nights somewhere before travelling home.

 

I have been researching everything i can get my hands on but really are stuck and would love some info from seasoned travellers of this area.

:p

We would also love to be able to see Dutch Harbour while there so if anyone knows of a cruise/land tour that includes Dutch that would be extremely helpful.:D

 

Thanks so much for your time.

Chrissy:)

 

We will be doing our first Alaskan cruise next September 2011 and we are giving ourselves around 2 weeks to have a look around Canada and a weeks Alaskan cruise. I know that we will return again as we will not be able to see everything.

As others have said it really is a long way to fly for just a week. So we will fly into Seattle from there we are hiring a car and heading to Vancouver for 3 days and from there we will be doing a road trip through the Rockies. OUr road trip will take in Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper, Prince George and Whistler.

Eventually arriving back in Seattle for our cruise on the Golden Princess. Then after the cruise we will spend a few days in Seattle before flying home.

We chose Seattle because there are usually a lot more cheaper flights into Seattle than Vancouver when the specials are on. We would have loved to incorporate a trip through Denali but will just not have the time available to take off from work.

Although when we stop in Skagway we will hire a car and driving out through the Yukon. Even have purchased on line Murray's Guide for the drive through to the Yukon In Ketchikan we are hoping to do a float plane trip to Misty Fiord and in Juneau a whale watching tour and trip up to Mendalhall Glacier. I have researched

I found so much information on the CC boards for Alaska as well as using trip advisor and just surfing the net as well. The boards are just a fantastic place to get information and I have gone through the Alaska board time and again finding more and more useful information.

A big thank you BCHappyGal for all your wonderful info. I have added it to my file to go through and it is going to be very useful to us.