This was our second cruise with Regent on the Navigator, so we were familiar with the ship, its layout, just not the destination - Alaska.

For the first time, we took advantage of the Regent air package and were very pleased with the arrangements they made for us, travelling out of Toronto, changing in Vancouver for a flight to Anchorage. On the way back, we took a deviation so that we could stay in Vancouver for three days. On arrival at Anchorage, the Regent Reps were very much in evidence and it was a mere minutes before we and our luggage were on a coach with other passengers heading for the Hilton in Anchorage.

The Hilton (never our favourite hotel chain) has definitely seen better days. It is tired looking in its furnishings. Our impressions of it were probably not helped by striking workers demonstrating outside the hotel later in the afternoon. Our room was adequate, but no more and we were both bothered by allergies while there which we suspect came from the air conditioning as they cleared up as soon as we left the next day. Read more