Alaska Cruise Reviews

Based on the rates, we decided to do Alaska in October, even though we knew the weather would be iffy, some excursions and shops would be closed, and we might miss out on some events, wildlife, etc. Knowing that, I would say this was still a wonderful trip. It gave us a great taste of Alaska, without the crowds and hustle bustle, we still saw whales, (no bears) Eagles, Glacier Bay was majestic, and the service on the Bliss five star. It was a prequel to our next "in season" Alaska trip. There is so much to see, we will be going again. Alaska, it not a once in a lifetime. You will want to come back again and again.

This cruise was just ok. We got places, they fed us food, and there were some things to do. The saving grace is the staff was very nice.

Be careful with credit cards and kids. They will swipe away at the arcade and no one will warn you or tell them it will get charged to your room. However, if you don’t have a credit card on file for them, you can’t gocarting as a family or laser tag. They will force you to go down to customer service and put a card on a child’s account. You can’t, as their parent pay for them under your account. Sounds like a scam and was a scam because I met other parents having same problem.

Our favorite parts of the cruise (out of many!) was that the food was delicious and the crew were the sweetest and most caring and upbeat people!! The crew members really made our vacation special and had a great attitude! Special shout out to Carla and the coffee song team in the buffet, Albert the waiter at the Four Seasons Restaurant, and Emmanuel the waiter at Four Seasons restaurant! Please tell them we said hello!! every crew member helped make our vacation memorable and extremely fun!

Overall, I really enjoyed my time with this cruise and happy to have nicer weather than expected! The only thing I would recommend to others would be to go end of August, early September as a lot of places were closed due to end of the season which was a bummer.

Great trip ship was nice and clean good staff service food was excellent had a good time

Our NCL Alaskan Cruise was fabulous! The only disappointment was we didn’t feel we got a real feel of Alaska at the ports. Next Alaskan trip we’ll be driving Our first time cruise was a learning experience. We learned we desire a balance of NCL & interior non-tourist communities.

The cruise and crew were fabulous, but the Spa/massages were horrible!!

Overall a good experience. Great service, good food, okay activities. Weather couldn't have been better, no rain.

I know that a lot of the port problems were not of NCL’s making, but that didn’t make it any better. The cruise as it eventualized certainly was not what was expected and certainly not worth the money, nor effort, involved. All that we really saw was Glacier Bay National Park but one would do a lot better on a small ship, and shorter cruise, if this was all you wanted! Overall, a very unsatisfactory experience.

Cruise was beautiful. I was disappointed in the ports and time there very limited. We enjoyed the ship and activities

Excellent trip to Alaska. We enjoyed hanging out on the observation deck.

Not pleasant with the air or smell but a terrific crew

Overall it was very fun cruise. We honestly packed too much figure it was going to brrrr cold up there but the temp was almost near the same as back in Seattle, WA. While crusing, we had a lots of fun, entertainment was outstanding every night. Free cocktails were super enjoyable; everyone on board was super nice and friendly. It was a memorable cruise. We also spent lot of money on arts. Heck! you live only once.

Highly recommend this cruise! I was disappointed that we did not make it to Glacier Bay, it otherwise it was great!

Great trip, good food, excellent wait staff and steward and the excursions were amazing.

The ship is beautiful and all of the employees are very pleasant and accommodating. The daily updates/schedules on the TV were much appreciated. I especially enjoyed the Steve and Neal show every day - informative and hilarious at the same time.

As I said this was a JOKE of a cruise. Royal Carribean should be investigated for false advertising and lies. A couple of week prior to the cruise they sent a message saying that they would not cruise by any Galciers because of a damaged engine. I found out on the crusie and from the internet that it was a lie. The Smithsonian channel they have a video on the Quantum class ships where they show that the ships have 4 enginees and only use 3 enginees and the 4 engien is a backup device so that they always have 3 engines available. So if they have a spare engine that excuse is a lie. Doing some research online I found complaints from passengers back in July that the truth was there had been a fire in July in the engine room that had done some damage. But they waited until only 2 weeks before the cruise to tell us that the glaciers had been cancelled and came up with this lie. Now lets get down to the real truth, gas prices are up and this gave them an idea to pocket some money by skipping the most popular part of the trip and save money by not going to locations where they also do not make money from excursions. After all they have NO excursions at the glaciers so they want to get to the ports where they can make millions in excursion money fees. They also same hundres of thousands of dollars by slowing down the ship to save gas money. This tirp was advertised as a Alaska with glaciers, and so they decide to increase their profits by skiping the Glaciers, which is the biggest selling proint for these cruises. Maybe the DOT needs to look into these cruise lines pumping out all the lies and hidding the truth about safety problems on these ships. What is it going to take, for a ship with 5,000 people on board sinking or bruning before the DOT takes it serious that there may be some real problems with these curise lines lying?

Would cruise again, learned a lot so would be more prepared. Was a great get-away - loved the service - all staff was very courteous and attentative.

To list a few highlights, the ship was very safety conscious; maintenance, function and appearance of everything aboard was perfect; crew service, professionalism and friendliness was outstanding; food and dining choices were exceptionally good; the entertainment and activities for kids and adults thrilled all of us. In short the entire cruise experience exceeded our expectations.