We are seniors ; 15+ cruises with lots of time. The 22 night cruise left from Vancouver and went to Alaska, Korea, Japan & China. The ports were all new to us.
We pre booked a few sightseeing tours - but it was easy with some prior research to arrange last minute tours on our own at the ports. Princess did a very good job of describing the ports (the night before)and arranged for buses to take us from the ports to town most without charge. Wonderful!! The ports in Asia were amazingly modern with skyscrapers and wide clean boulevards and could have been in any big modern 1st class city in the world
Downtown Vancouver our embarkation has many excellent hotels and it was an easy and inexpensive taxi ride to the ship. we stayed 2 nights at the Marriott so we could tour the city.