Full disclosure: I love cruises, love service, sun, pool, beaches, food, excursions - the whole shebang. Alaska?! Brr! Not for me! I went on this cruise because my wonderful husband, who had endured Caribbean for me a number of times, really wanted to see Alaska.

Turned out that even for someone like me, who, to quote Woody Allen, is "two with nature", there were still lots of things to enjoy on an Alaska cruise!

While he went on floatplane trips to fish for salmon and to sit by a creek for 2 hours (quietly! - ugh - not my thing!) to watch bears in the wild, I fully enjoyed a bus trip to see the Mendenhall Glacier and the catamaran whale watching tour in Juneau. Nice px to prove that I had been to Alaska. Read more