Celebrity Millennium Review

Celebrity Millennium Alaska Northbound/Southbound B2B May 12th & 20th 2016

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6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: May 2016
Cabin: Ocean View 6
Mother Bear and two cubs crossing the road in Canada BC (driving from Skagway)
Bove Island in Canada BC (driving from Skagway)
Canada BC (driving from Skagway)
Canada BC (driving from Skagway)
Yukon Territory (driving from Skagway)
Emerald Lake in the Yukon Territory (driving from Skagway)
Emerald Lake
Hoonah (Icy Strait Point), canoe making
Hubbard Glacier Calving
Mountain Range behind Hubbard Glacier
Face of Hubbard Glacier close u. Glacial ice is 7x more dense than normal
Face of Hubbard Glacier.
An eagle perched on a Hubbard Glacier growler
Approach to Hubbard Glacier - surreal, isn't it?!
Icy Strait Point cannery museum and dock.
Icy Strait Eagle poised in the tree
Icy Strait Ziprider. My wife is in the middle!
Icy Strait Ziprider elevation is over 1300ft, taller than the Empire State
Coastal helicopter at Herbert glacier second stop after mushing
Our Iditarod sled team
Flowers near the Shrine of St. Therese in Juneau
A river on top of Herbert glacier. Blue blue blue
The inside of the Shrine of St. Therese
Mendenhall glacier in Juneau
Exterior ship view in Juneau
Exterior view of the Shrine of St. Therese in Juneau
Our ski plane out of Skagway, landed on a glacier in Glacier Bay
Ketchikan Creek Street
Our float plane out of Kethikan, during our landing mid-tour
The meadow area we hiked to in Misty Fjords Wilderness after leaving the floatplane
Totem poles at Totem Bight in Ketchikan
The Totem Bight Clan House in Ketchikan
Uh, it's a sign welcoming you to Ketchikan   ;  )
One of the fjords in Misty Fjord Wilderness
This is a night picture - look how smooth that water is.
This is the new rooftop terrace freshly installed on the Millennium.
This is the tail of the baby Orca. He would flip it three times about every
Downtown Seward
Our Seward harbor seal welcome party
This the the tail of a humpback as it begins a deep dive (Seward)
This is the humback's tail just before the tail flips out of the water
A pod of Orcas on the Kenai Fjords 6 hour National Park tour. So cool
A sea otter having lunch (Seward)
Our water chariot in Seward
I love this ship
So shiny and clean after her recent drydock
This would be the pool area. Notice the new furniture is outside too.
Castle hill, Sitka. This is were the old fort had been and were the Russian
This is St. Michael's Cathdral in Sitka
Glacier Bay during our Skagway air tour
Glacier Bay (Skagway air tour)
Glaciers in Glacier Bay (Skagway air tour)
The Millie in Skagway
Our group touching what few men have touched here before - solitude and God
Walking the ski plane's landing track at the top of the world (at least
A cooked dish from Sushi on 5...this was exceptionally delicious
The real deal, sushi rrom Sushi on 5 (yup, raw and very good)
The brand new Sushi on 5
The Brand new Tuscan Grill
Canada Place in Vancouver BC

This is my opportunity to pay you all back for the great advice I have received on cruisecritic.com. We planned this cruise for our 30th wedding anniversary and went hog wild on port excursions, thinking that if we were lucky and the weather cooperated we might be able to complete half of them. Well, when they tell you that the month of May is a great month to go to Alaska (less rain, more sun) – believe it. The weather Northbound was amazing and every single one of our excursions went off as planned. Southbound had more typical Alaska weather (cloudy), but still little rain and good temps.

We travel with a group, and had many of them with us on the first week. This was the cruise first we all had without the kids. In our case, the kids are all either married (Son), in grad school (eldest daughter), or entering their last year of college (twin “baby” girls). Did they want to go on this trip, yes; but could we afford it with all the excursions planned and tuition coming due, no. So be it. It was great even without them.

First, our sailing took us from Vancouver, BC to Seward, and then back again on the second sailing. Because this was the first sailing of the season, the Northbound trip also had Sitka, Ak thrown in as an additional port in order to reset the Millennium to a Friday-Friday schedule. So it was an 8-day cruise going North. Nice bonus!

Cabin Review

Ocean View 6

Cabin 06

We had cabin #3116 for the May 12th sailing. GREAT cabin. It is a Cat6 OV that was installed back in the 2012 refurb, so it is basically new and had a little more wiggle room between the front of the bed and the cabin wall – we did NOT have to turn sideways to pass between the bed and the cabin wall. There is maybe an extra 20 square feet or so there. It also has a VERY large window. The area used to be where the old theatre was and a pleasant reading area prior to the new cabins being installed. The windows are the size of the Main Dining Room windows, about 5 feet in diameter (compared to normal OV windows of about 4 feet). Being on deck 3 was also very convenient to get to the restaurants, all venues on deck 4 and 5, and when going/returning ashore. Needless to say, we loved this room. All cabins from #3112 to 3144 are like this cabin.

Port Reviews

Vancouver

Clean, safe city. We took the walked from our hotel to the local marina, hopped on the Aquabua to Granville Island, and had the best fish in chips at Go Fish just off the island. What a wonderful welcome and pleasant way to begin our vacation.

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