Outstanding Cruise

Item: Island Princess
Rating: 5
Author: Cruiser834

Island Princess Cruise Review to Alaska - Gulf of Alaska

Cruiser834

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 7

Overall rating:

5 out of 5

7 Night Voyage Of The Glaciers Northbound (Vancouver To Anchorage)

Sail date: May 11, 2016

Ship: Island Princess

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: B717

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

We actually did the cruise from Vancouver to Whittier and then did the land tour hosted by Princess up from Valdez to Copper River to Denali and back on the train to Anchorage. All was great, but we enjoyed the land tour as the best part of the trip.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Children's Programs

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Cabin was fine, very clean and excellent service. We did this same tour in 2007 and stayed in the exact same cabin. In 2007 there was an open back deck on the Island Princess that we truly enjoyed just steps from our cabin. Unknown to us , the Island Princess was renovated a couple of years ago and the back deck behind our stateroom was converted to more staterooms. I was surprised to see this as we boarded the ship this time. Had I known of the conversion, we would have purchased a stay in a balcony room. I just did not do my home work as well as i should have. We did find other places to hang out on the ship, but I missed the back deck.

Ship tip

The early dining, at 5:15 is fine for most of the trip, but we had to skip this eating time one night as we were just then arriving at College Fjord, and did not want to miss the glaciers, Also we did a jeep tour at Skagway up into the Yukon Territory that was just outstanding.

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Ports of call

Vancouver (Canada Place), British Columbia

5 out of 5

Ketchikan, Alaska

5 out of 5

Juneau, Alaska

5 out of 5

Skagway, Alaska

5 out of 5

Cruise Glacier Bay

5 out of 5

Cruise College Fjord, Alaska

5 out of 5

Whittier (Anchorage), Alaska

5 out of 5

5 Comments

rhermans 8 years ago

When you do a land tour and cruise you need to pack one suitcase for the land portion and another suitcase for the cruise. When we arrived in Fairbanks a couple of years ago we found out they wanted to take one of our suitcases to the cruise terminal. We were able to quickly repack our suitcases. Never saw information about this on the web site. This year we're prepared.

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ygrealtor 8 years ago

We're doing the same cruise on 8/31. Anyone else? How were the hotels? Any tips regarding the land portion of the trip?

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karenhorn 8 years ago

Humphred1, it looks like we may be on the same tour!

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TeamDavonavo 8 years ago

We are starting the land tour in Fairbanks on June 22 and ending in Whittier 7 days later. Any recommendations?

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humphred1 8 years ago

We are starting with the land tour in Fairbanks on June 11th. Can't wait.

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