Cruise_explorer5

On 4/25/2024 at 2:32 AM, shof515 said:

Almost all cruise lines dock right in town, usually near Front St. There is one and only one cruise line that docks a few miles down the road in their own area 

On 4/26/2024 at 3:17 PM, Cruise_explorer5 said:

Yes, and here is the location of the cruise piers and the downtown area ;

The Luminosa is in Ketchican today and Here are some pictures at the pier and the complementary shuttle to downtown and shopping area ( Waltmart, Safeway...). 

On 4/25/2024 at 2:32 AM, shof515 said:

Almost all cruise lines dock right in town, usually near Front St. There is one and only one cruise line that docks a few miles down the road in their own area 

Yes, and here is the location of the cruise piers and the downtown area ;

We are on the Luminosa ( Transpacific from Brisbane) and will visit Ketchican in about 3 days. However, according to Ms. Emily Camp ( the naturalist/ lecturer on Luminosa), we will dock at the pier not too far from town and it is walkable to town.

If you cruise with Luminosa this coming summer, you will see Emily onboard with a lot of informations about Alaska. She is an expert on marine biology and specialized in Alaska.  We enjoyed her lecture on sea days and learned a lot too.

Thank you very much, Gregg and Bob.

I have found that Roll call via your link . It looks like I was on that roll call before but lost it for a while .

Hello cruising folks,

It looks like Gregg is talking about the Roll call of the other cruise, not the Zenith TA on April 15, 2018 from Santo Domingo to Lisbol. If I am wrong, please post the link for this Roll call SVP. Thanks.

Dear LBFlex,

Thanks for your good review of the recent Monarch TA . We continue cruising with Monarch from Lisbon to Rostock after that TA trip . Guess what ? The menu of the TA cruise is better than the Northern Europe one . For every dinner on the TA trip, passengers are given 2 menu, one is called "standard " and the other one is from "chef recommended" . The standard menu is the same for every night but the "chef recommended" is different for each night .We can choose some from the standard and/or from the chef recommended menu.

We eat lunch in the buffet restaurant and each day is served with different carving meat, from roast beef, rack of lamb to grilled salmon , turkey, chicken ...and so on. The cold cut station have a lot of good cheese, ham, salami, prosecutor (spelling!!!) . We enjoyed every lunch on the Monarch and highly graded the chef as one of the best in cruise industry .

For drinks, we saw some guys got drunk at the elevator each night and we help some of them to get into the elevator (Deck 2 and 3) and guide them to their cabins . Beers are 2$ if you don 't like Tecate (free) . If you accept "house wine" then it is free . The Gran whiskey is free but other brand will cost you 2$ or 3$. Soda can , soft drinks in can cost 2$ but soft drinks from the bar is free . Almost all the bars serve coffee, however the bar on Deck 5 which is next to casino opens early (7:00 AM) and serve some of the best espresso and cappuccino on the ship . There is a special coffee drink called "Bambon" that contains condensed milk at the bottom, espresso coffee in the middle, and milk foaming on top .

We agreed with you about the good deals with Pullmantur /Monarch on the TA cruise . We make a rough estimate of how much it costs for coffee in the morning, a few drinks (beers or mixed drinks) , 3 meals per day, and a nice cabin for guests and we do not know how this company can survive with such a good deal .

We will do it again next year with the Zenith ship ,embarking from Santo Domingo .

Happy cruising, Folks.