Alaska - Inside Passage Cruise Reviews

Great trip overall. Alaska scenery is gorgeous. Holland staff is extremely friendly.

This was covered in the comments but it was a great cruise. Wonderful for older families and service was excellent. Entertainment was disappointing. Only downside.

We would like to thank for the great service, friendly, accurate and professional manners of Szabina and Daryl (Ketchikan Dining), Elmir (17th Bar), Anthony (coffee Bar at 5th )

Norwegian has a huge ship that is very crowded. They need to stop charging for meals and do like they used to with freestyle dining anywhere.

This was a special treat for us to celebrate 2 milestone birthdays together on something we've never experienced. It's a lot of homework preparation, reading of fine print documents, and uploading to the Princess Medallion app. So be prepared to invest several hours, especially due to covid restrictions and if it your 1st cruise. Alaska cruises are expensive if you want to take a excursion off the ship, and the food prices will give you menu sticker shock.

I was more hopeful about the cruise. Was a celebration of our 25th wedding anniversary. I alerted everyone, signed up for a special dinner and was told I would get a call. Never heard again. I called and was told the event was over. Nice anniversary gift.

Wonderful cruise. Disappointed we were not able to go to Skagway due to rock slide. Found out while boarding ship so that required scrambling at the last minute to book an excursion at the new port, Icy Strait.

Trip of a lifetime, perfect weather every day (highly unusual for summer in Alaska), most memorable excursion was the Helicopter Trip to the Glacier and walking around on the Glacier, breathtaking and wondrous.

Got sick from there fine dining and paid money for the services that I didn’t recieved

The cruise exceeded my expectations. The ship was great! There were an abundance of activities and the service was great! It was wonderful visiting all of the ports!

The ship was beautiful and clean, and the waitstaff was lovely. The takeaway for me is that the food was inedible. We tried for weeks to get specialty dining reservations which were all sold out, so we were relegated to main dining and it was terrible. It was a joke to the vegans and vegetarians, in fact. Outside of VOP and Dan Austin who worked their butts off and were amazing, the entertainment and choice of activities was sub-par. the stand up comedians were amateur and lousy and had not prepared a full set. There was one fully produced show (and it was good, called Rock Opera) but I expected shows every night. the best things to do on the ship--spa, sanctuary, specialty dining--all carried extra charges. it's a shame.

My cruise was amazing, I love Princess and everything they are about. Looking forward to the next one.

Very bad itinerary. Nice ship. However, there was a lot of issues on the ship - miscommunication, long lines to get things done, etc.

to quote my hard to please teenagers. "Best Vacation Ever Mom. Can we do this again?"

First cruise, it was a good experience. I would recommend it.

This was my first cruise, and it did not disappoint! The beauty seen and experienced in Alaska was incredible! Likewise the experience on the Discovery Princess was great. Not happy about the 8 pounds I gained, did not think that amount of weight gain was possible, but I did it! The staff was great and accommodations top notch! I would suggest that the number of times folks could sign up for events like karaoke be limited to give others the chance to participate.

This was an amazing cruise and excited to travel with Princess again!

Too many charges for a cruise that you pay a lot for to begin with, every stop was long lines and very little time to do anything! Icy Strait wasn’t worth giving up Ketchikan for and the docking fees that we paid for Ketchikan should be refunded! I probably won’t go on another Princess Cruise!

Cruise was nice, but Princess cancelled our Ketchikan port visit and substituted Icy Strait Point, a cruiseline owned stop which was basically just a bunch of cruiseline owned tourist shops. I should have complained to the cruiseline or asked for at least a partial refund, but ran out of time due to other issues.

Overall Alaska was incredible but this particular Holland America Cruise left much to be desired. Service on the ship was well below expectations. There was a very large conference group on this cruise, at the same time as we were, and they were given priority while the rest of us passengers (not part of that group) were not treated as well. Alaska was a beautiful as expected!! We had terrific weather (high 50's to 70's - varied in each port) but no rain!! We loved seeing Alaska but the cruise, itself, was very disappointing.