Background: This cruise was for our 10 year anniversary and my wife really wanted to see Alaska. We have sailed multiple times on Royal Caribbean and once on Disney.

We booked our cruise through Royal Caribbean and the whole process was fairly straight forward with no major issues.

Embarkation: We flew into Seattle the day of the cruise and took the paid transfer from the airport to the ship. Once we arrived at the terminal (around noon), it took around an hour to complete the embarkation process. Out of all the cruises I have been, this was by far the longest we had to wait to get onto the ship. However, windjammers was open and we managed to get lunch on board before heading to our stateroom. Read more