Norwegian Star Sailing Date 2 October 2010 Itinerary: Pacific Coastal Number in party 6 (one from Seattle, and 5 from the Salt Lake City, Utah area)
On 28 September 2010 five of us flew from Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon and board Amtrak Cascades to Seattle. We transferred to the Empire Builder and left the train in Edmonds, Washington. The scenery along the railroad is really wonderful, some of it is inland and some along the sea shore. We stayed two nights in the Seattle Area. Then we boarded another train (Amtrak Cascades) for Vancouver. Crossing the boarder into Canada, a number of people were waving at the train. We arrived in Vancouver and stayed two nights in North Vancouver. We did rent a van, but it appears the mass transit system in Vancouver I really good. Doing this again, I would not rent a van.
On 2 October, we went and dropped off the luggage, and most of the people at the pier. My wife Kristi and I then took the van back to the rental agency, and walked back to the pier. We went through the check in line, and boarded the ship. The check in line was not really bad, it only took us about 45 minutes once we were in the queue to be on board the Norwegian Star.