torybruno

I don’t remember your plans for Juneau, but I’m curious if you see taxis lined up when you get off the ship.  We’re debating how to get to MendenHall and back, without the 90 minute time schedule!

Have sooooomuch fun!  

MICA guide tour at Manatuska glacier.  Rent a car or do a day tour with a group on Viator.  It’s the best thing we did in all of Alaska.  (We rented the car).  

Thanks all… I was just concerned being in Alaska, it may only be open very limited times.  I won’t make it much past 10pm anyway, and only till my 50$ is gone!

We are doing Whittier to Vancouver, inside passage.  Nieuw Amsterdam.  

Good tips!  Can’t wait, we board tomorrow!

Anything on the reserve card?

On 2/14/2024 at 3:17 PM, wolfie11 said:

You cannot walk out to the glacier.  It is inaccessible by foot.

Walk out water falls with glacier view.  I stand corrected!

Does anyone know which nights will be formal nights on this itinerary?  Trying to book Pinnacle for a non formal night. 

Taxi to Mendenhall Glacier, tour the visitor center and hike out to the glacier and falls.  Taxi return, if it’s cleared up, take the tram up to the top.  We enjoyed an Alaska beer up there with crabmeat nachos, there are also some hikes up there.  

It’s been a few years since we’ve cruised with Holland.  Can someone please tell me what your formal, dress your best, gala, whatever they are called; nights looked like last year on an Alaskan itinerary.  
 

Many thanks!

We are looking at booking this combined tour, transportation to Mendenhall… but we want to go at our own pace and don’t feel 90 minutes is long enough to hike to the falls and do the visitor center.  
At what point will they give us our tram ticket, we would like to call a cab at our own expense to get us from Mendenhall to the tram.  
Any foreseeable problems with this? 

Using our $100 excursion credit from HA, the excursion would cost us $9 plus cab fare, and we would be able to do it on our own timing.  
 

Holland America!  They really do Alaska well, we’ve been on most lines.  

Thank you!  I should have mentioned there may be up to nine of us, but we can combine taxicabs.  

What is the best way to get to and from Mendenhall from the Nieuw Amsterdam dock?  I feel the cruise line does not allow us enough time there.  What are our options?
 

Ideally, we would like to do Mendenhall, get back to the port and go up the tram, maybe have a bite to eat and drink at the top, short hike and back to the boat.  

YES!!!

I never wanted to, thought it was something I could do in my 70’s.  Went with family 8 years ago, 4 years ago my husband and I grabbed a super cheap round trip out of Seattle that went to three different ports we had not visited the first cruise, and now we’re going again this June.  I’d take it over Caribbean any day!  

June or July.  Holland America.  

You can stay in Anchorage and book a MICA guide tour that includes transportation from Anchorage.  It was hands down, the best excursion of our two trips to Alaska, the three hour glacier trek.  
I also believe there is a tour to Seward that includes transportation from Anchorage for the boat tour of Kenai Fjords.  Haven’t done that one yet, but it’s on the schedule for June, precruise.  

On 4/11/2023 at 10:34 PM, Boo's Mom said:

I would recommend a fishing charter.  You do not have to have ANY fishing experience.  Or, you could have lots of experience.  That's the beauty of a charter.  They will assist as little or as much as you want/need.  

 

Book a short one.  Perhaps 3 hours. 

And if you want to shorten the excursion while you are out on the water - they will do whatever you want. (they won't refund any of your $$ though). 

 

I have booked private fishing charters many times in Alaska.  It is a beautiful Alaska experience.  And if you catch fish and want to ship it home, the charter company will take your fish to get processed and shipped.  It's expensive (shipping fish home) but the fish makes great Alaska souvenirs! - way better than a t-shirt or a mug. 😌

 

Just some thoughts to consider. 

 

 

Hi!  I found this post while doing a search for fishing in Alaska.  Can you recommend any fishing charters for Juneau, Ketchikan or Seward?

We have 3 guys in our group that would like to do a fishing excursion while in Alaska.  We are cruising the week of June 23, not sure what fish they are catching at that time, the guys are pretty open as far as  kind of fish they are fishing for.   They would like to do this in Seward before boarding, or in Juneau or Ketchikan, private or ship excursion.  I can’t wait to hear your fishing stories!

thank you!

We went on the Wilderness excursion to Davidson Glacier, and loved it.  I’ve since heard someone died on the excursion, but people have died on float plane excursions too.   I’m sure the tour operators have really been evaluated for safety since.  

On 12/31/2023 at 3:53 PM, crystalspin said:

If you DO want to eat together, I would recommend you try to switch to fixed dining. We were a group of 9 on the Zaandam to AK, and they put us on the Anytime Dining level bc that was the available 10-top. It was nice to go our own ways (except for excursions we all did together) during the day and catch up over dinner.

 

On upcoming cruise, I have reserved Tamarind for the first night. With 9 of you on open seating, MDR on the first night is going to be a zoo. If you were 'fixed' of course that would be when you met your servers, who would be the same for the rest of the cruise.

Couldn’t all agree on a fixed dining time.  

On 12/28/2023 at 8:16 PM, Coral said:

There have been reports of poor safety issues on this with someone dying. Former employees have said negative things about the company and their actions (profits over safety).

That’s so sad!  We loved this tour.  We were in the canoe in very calm waters.  

Hi!

We are a group of 7 adults, possibly 9.  We have an 11pm red eye home from Vancouver on the day we disembark.  Looking to fill the day, city tour, whatever… we will all have large pieces of luggage.  Is there a tour that may last a little longer so we’re not sitting at the airport for 6 hours?  
 

thank you in advance 🙂

Hi!  We are a group of 9.  We have not cruised Holland in a while.  
 

We have selected anytime dining, our reservations are linked.  Which night would be the best to book a reservation in the Pinnacle?  Trying to consider we think it’s important to dine in the main dining room the first night, also formal nights, port days, etc.  

Is there a way to pre book the 9 of us when we decide which night before boarding?