The wife and I have talked about heading north for a few years and we pulled the trigger. We took a cruise too Alaska. We flew out of Cleveland and landed in Seattle and boarded the Norwegian ship "Joy", Saturday May 11. Our first port of call was in Juneau. We had great weather (for Alaska) and at times we had warmer temps than back here in Ohio. The wife really wanted to go whale watching so we had pre booked 2 trips, one for Juneau and one for Hoonah. We weren't disappointed at either location.
This was our 3rd cruise and we really enjoy the whole experience and Norwegian is a good fit for what we like. Most of it is ala carte which fits our needs. Our first cruise was back before we had kids and then again 2 years ago and both were too the Caribbean so this was a big change.
The scenery was spectacular as you could imagine and a few can attest that had lived and traveled there here on the site. Between the wife and I we snapped over 2k pictures and it'll be a month of editing them all lol. Some didn't pan out as well as we had hoped but many of them did. Whales and eagles as well as the mountains and coastline we the bulk of them. We chose the inter coastal route too get as much of the flavor of Alaska we could see from the water.
All in all it was a great trip and I'd do it again in a heartbeat (if my wallet wasn't currently empty) lol. Our only hiccup was on the way home and involved american airlines and one of their broke ass airplanes lol. Added another day too the excursion.
I'll add pictures sporadically throughout the next few days so y'all can get a taste of what we had seen. If you've ever thought of heading that way, do it. You won't be disappointed.
We did Juneau, Ketchikan, Hoonah and our final port before heading back too Seattle was Victoria BC.
This was our 3rd cruise and we really enjoy the whole experience and Norwegian is a good fit for what we like. Most of it is ala carte which fits our needs. Our first cruise was back before we had kids and then again 2 years ago and both were too the Caribbean so this was a big change.
The scenery was spectacular as you could imagine and a few can attest that had lived and traveled there here on the site. Between the wife and I we snapped over 2k pictures and it'll be a month of editing them all lol. Some didn't pan out as well as we had hoped but many of them did. Whales and eagles as well as the mountains and coastline we the bulk of them. We chose the inter coastal route too get as much of the flavor of Alaska we could see from the water.
All in all it was a great trip and I'd do it again in a heartbeat (if my wallet wasn't currently empty) lol. Our only hiccup was on the way home and involved american airlines and one of their broke ass airplanes lol. Added another day too the excursion.
I'll add pictures sporadically throughout the next few days so y'all can get a taste of what we had seen. If you've ever thought of heading that way, do it. You won't be disappointed.
We did Juneau, Ketchikan, Hoonah and our final port before heading back too Seattle was Victoria BC.