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When will this start and is it on all the ships - we board the Sapphire Princess next week and I would love to see this presentation!

I have 15 days until we board the plain for Vancouver and I am so excited! It can't get here soon enough. Thank you for sharing your planning and started this thread. It has helped me so much. I do so love rubbing shoulders with planners like me! Have so much fun - wish we were on the same cruise but I'll be boarding a week earlier than you but still on the Sapphire!

I'm so so excited about this trip - I just want it to be here already. 24 days until we fly to Vancouver! Is it too early to pack? Everything is done on my end until I can pack. I keep going over all the lists and my schedule to make sure I am not missing anything. I think I need to go spring clean too @no1racefan1 ! Hope everyone is doing well!

I would like to know this as well. I am sailing Sapphire Princess in May!

Honestly I don't know what happened. I thought it must have been because I did the seat selection but I guess not. I probably accidentally pushed the eticket button or something. I know its my mistake and I'm paying for it - I am usually really good with technology, but I was not careful this time and something happened. We obviously don't fly much so it was definitely not something I was aware of. Life is about learning and I guess this is one of those things that I have learned about that I will be much more careful about next time! But hey I get to go on my first cruise, so I really don't have anything to complain about. We will just have to go to Vancouver on another trip or something. 🙂 Thank you all!

Thank you!

Thank you all for your help and understanding! I appreciate the support. This has been a lesson for me on being a little more careful about how I do things online and just reading and learning more. This is my first cruise so it’s all been a learning process.

Sorry I didn’t state that very well. I will be flying to Vancouver from Utah so yes I will be using my passport. Lin is my middle name. In the Princess EZAir documents it says Mrs DeDe Lin Smith but in the ticket says DEDELINMRS SMITH. my husband is JOSEPH LEE SMITH and on the ticket it says JOSEPHLEEMR SMITH

So in another topic - can someone tell me if this is going to be a problem.... I noticed that the tickets do join our names together and I'm wondering if this is going to cause a problem going through security. My Name is DeDe Smith and the ticket says DEDELINMRS SMITH

Yea, I just wish I would have realized this sooner before I selected the seats. Like I said, this is probably all my fault and there could have been a warning - but I don't remember that happening. It's just frustrating - but I hope my error can help someone else!

Thank you - but we are flying home from Anchorage.

The fare itself did go up by $50 so I expected to pay the extra $100 for the fare, but not for the canceleation/change fee. Yea, I still don't know how I ended up requesting early ticketing...

Yes I tried to do it myself and it is indeed charging the penalty. The call center told me that with Delta by choosing the seats I made the early ticketing happen. There could have been a pop-up warning but I don't remember it. 😞

My flights are with Delta and i guess by choosing the seat selection that requested Early Ticketing and I didn't realize it. If there was a warning - somehow I missed it. I tried to just do the change myself on the cruise personalizer but it was charging a penalty fee so I called and they let me know that because the ticketing has already happened there is nothing I can do unless I pay the fee. 😞 I feel pretty stupid and frustrated about this. But I guess I just don't get that extra day....

Well shoot, I just discovered my problem and I guess it was me that made it that way. I didn't realize that by choosing seats, that would make the "early ticketing" happen and then make it so I couldn't change without penalty! I guess Live and Learn. So if any of you purchase flights from Princess EZAir - make sure you don't choose your seats or you won't be able to change/cancel your flight without penalty. 😞

So I purchased Princess EZAir Flights for my husband and I for our cruise in May. It is still 62 days before our flight and we had decided to change the flight for a day earlier so we would have more time in Vancouver before the cruise. So I called Princess to make that happen because we made sure that we purchased flights that were on the flexible plan so that we could change/cancel within 45 days. Well, they tell me that it is going to cost me over $1000 to change or cancel this flight because "the ticket has already been issued". They won't explain to me what that means. I am really frustrated and upset about this. I went with the EZAir because I could change/cancel within 45 days. Any tips or help that anyone can offer would be much appreciated. I can't spend that money to get it changed so if not I guess we won't get that extra day that I wanted. 😞

Thank you so much for this thread! I too am an overplanner and I get much of the joy of the vacation during the planning stage. 🙂 We don't actually take a lot of trips (our major trips have been to Disney) but oh how I love planning! Anyways, my husband surprised me a few weeks ago, by saying that he thought we should do an Alaskan Cruise for our 25th Wedding Anniversary this year! I was shocked! I never never never thought he would go on a cruise, let alone suggest it himself! So I got right on and booked a cruise. We are both first-time cruisers so there has been so so so much to learn but its been so fun! I wish that I knew we were going to do this a year ago (so that I could have gotten better pricing and such), but I've spent hours scouring youtube and the internet and of course Cruise Critic for all the info - so so happy to have found this thread! Denali is definitely on my bucket list, but hopefully we will be able to come back to Alaska on another trip. We are cruising on the Sapphire Princess from May 11-18th from Vancouver to Whittier. Our anniversary isn't until June but the timing of this one worked better for our schedule. We are flying into Vancouver on a late night flight on May 9th so we will have a full-day and a half in Vancouver before setting sail. Working on the planning of touring a little bit of Vancouver. Then on the cruise we see Ketchikan (Totem Bight State Park & Ketchikan Highlights, Touring the town a little, and the Lumberjack Show), Juneau (Mendenhall Glacier & Whale Quest), Skagway (Ultimate Gold Panning, Sled Dogs & Scenic Railway), and then we do scenic cruising in Glacier National Park and College Fjord. We booked a Whittier to Anchorage Full-Day Tour that takes us from the Whittier port right to our hotel (Hampton Inn) in Anchorage and we get to stop at the Portage Glacier Visitor Center, Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, Mt. Alyeska with aerial tram & lunch, a Anchorage City highlights (Lake Hood, Ship creek, Ulu factory and earthquake park area) before being dropped at our hotel. Our flight is not until late on May 19th, so we will do a little more touring of Anchorage before flying home the next day. Still a lot to plan including the packing which I tend to be an overpacker so I am going to try really hard to keep it to 1 checked bag, 1 carry-on bag and personal item for EACH of us. Our flights are booked, our excursions are booked, our cruise is all paid for....just need to narrow down a few things for before and after the cruise and the things I "need" for the trip! 60 Days Before flying to Vancouver!!!!!