Let me preface this review by saying my husband and I do not consider ourselves to be "Cruise People.' We like to go at our own pace, see as much as we can and go, go, go on our vacations. We RARELY visit the same place twice as we like to visit as many places as we can when we vacation. Simply lounging by a pool on a ship doesn't sound appealing to either of us, especially since we tried a cruise to the Caribbean on celebrity a few years ago and were not impressed.

That being said, we still had an open mind because we have been told that the very best way to tour Alaska is by cruise, so we took the plunge: Cashed in all of our rewards points for a Balcony Mini-Suite on the Diamond Princess that sailed from Vancouver, stopping at Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway and landing in Whittier(Anchorage).

By day 2 we decided that not only would we repeat this cruise, but we would do it on the exact same ship! A HUGE novelty to us. Read more