Alaska a Picture Review -May 30 to June 6th

[cincycruisincouple]

Excellent, excellent pictures!! Alaska is high up on my list of places to see. Hopefully one day. Thank you so much.

[CanWeGoYet?]

Beautiful pictures. I especially liked the ones of emerald lake! I need to go back and see it when it isn't frozen over. There was only a thin border at one edge of the lake that was dark green (not frozen & gray) when we were there. I was told to expect this, so it shouldn't have been a surprise or disappointment to me....Anyway thanks for posting your photos!

[Chmie]

Fantastic pictures.

I tried talking my wife into an Alaska cruise but she's maintained that she's not cruising to somewhere that has snow and ice. We live with it for about 5 months a year. :(

I will keep trying as Alaska looks beautiful in the summer. :)

[photojunkieEMT]

Your pictures are just awesome. Thank you for sharing them. Now I know why I want to go to Alaska so badly.

 

Thinking the same thing.

[teacher34]

We were on that same cruise, but we just got home today and haven't had a chance to loook at our photos yet. Yours are absolutely beautiful! I can only hope ours turn out half as good. I'm bookmarking your post so I can show people your pictures in case ours don't turn out. I don't mean I will steal your pictures, just show people your postings so they can see what we saw. I am so glad you are posting all this. It was a fantastic cruise. The sceanery was so amazing!

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[cio541]

We were on that same cruise, but we just got home today and haven't had a chance to loook at our photos yet. Yours are absolutely beautiful! I can only hope ours turn out half as good. I'm bookmarking your post so I can show people your pictures in case ours don't turn out. I don't mean I will steal your pictures, just show people your postings so they can see what we saw. I am so glad you are posting all this. It was a fantastic cruise. The sceanery was so amazing!

 

No worries I would never think you would steal them :)

 

All of my photos will be up at (eventually lol) at

www (dot) nelsonphoto (dot) smugmug.com under vacations

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[vivavegas]

Absolutly loving your photo review! Thanks for taking the time to share with us!:)

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[PathfinderEss]

Awesome pictures, thanks for taking the time to post them.

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thank you all for your kind words and looking at my photo review. We did not get off in Victoria so sadly no photos from there.

 

Enjoy your day!

 

If you want to see the rest of my husband and my photos (we have two cameras) you can see them at

 

http: // nelsonphoto (dot) smugmug (dot) com/Travel/Alaska-Cruise

[cio541]

thank you all for your kind words and looking at my photo review. We did not get off in Victoria so sadly no photos from there.

 

Enjoy your day!

 

If you want to see the rest of my husband and my photos (we have two cameras) you can see them at

 

http: // nelsonphoto (dot) smugmug (dot) com/Travel/Alaska-Cruise

 

I thought I should add some general observations about the cruise:

 

Our first cruise was on the Splendor last October so I only have that ship to compare to. In general I had the following impressions:

 

The beds on the Spirit are not as comfortable as the Splendor

 

I liked the size of the Spirit more my husband less he likes "bigger" I guess

 

I was disappointed in the casino, so many fewer slots and most were not the kind I like (penny with bonus stuff, not the 7s etc) most of the casino was card tables etc. However upside for the Casino is it smelt soooo much better than the Splendors did.

 

Food was pretty much the same and I was pretty much happy with it :) Only disappointment if you want to call it that is our Head Waiter, was The Head waiter, I mean head over all other Head Waiters and half way through the week his assistant's changed. Apparently new ones to the ship go through him to make sure they "pass his muster" and then they are moved out to another area. I was just getting attached to ours when they were moved, so the dinning felt a little less personal than our last cruise, other than this all was good.

 

I learned not to plan the whole day in a port away to excursions not only was it exhausting I felt I didn't get any time to "check out" the port, this was especially true in Skagway, even though we had lots of time to spare (we got back at 4:30 left port at 9, I was too tired to do anything except go to dinner and go die.

 

I thought the second show "Jazz Heart" was much better than first one which was New Oreleans geared. (cant remember name) both were good, just really enjoyed the second one. On the Spirit there are two male and two female lead singers which was nice as on the Spirit there was just two.

 

I found I used my balcony on this one all the time. We either had the window drapes full open looking out or were on it all the time. It was easy to bundle up if we got cold where in Mexico it was so blasted humid we didn't use it much. As you can tell from our photos we love scenery so it worked for us wonderfully!

 

Thanks all!

[shipshape3]

The picturea are just breathtaking!!!!!!!! I so want to do this cruise:)

[spacepotatoes]

Thanks for sharing your beautiful pictures! We are heading to Alaska in a little over a month (not on Carnival) and can't wait :D