Grand Princess Review

Cruise Great With A Few Hiccups

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BrnBrok
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Jul 2015
Cabin: Balcony

We chose a land sea tour of Alaska with the land portion first. Princess handled the land portion well in terms of organization of buses, and trains. Getting us our travel material for each hotel and providing a number of interesting trips at each "Wilderness Lodge" We chose a North South Cruise following our land trip and it gave us lots of opportunities for shore excursions. We also had two day of Glacier viewing with stays near Hubbard Glacier followed by another visit to Glacier Bay. I believe that taking the cruise following the land portion gives you some time to unwind and still see sites.

If you have no interest in our air issues you can skip this next part

The air part of the trip booked using Princess air was a very poor introduction to our vacation. We never got any advice that would take us from BWI to Fairbanks with a minimum of stops (changing planes). Our path was early flight from BWI to Dallas. Plane delayed for a brake light failure with brakes working. That put us behind schedule on our American Airlines flights by an hour and 1/2. Once in Dallas having missed our connection we tried throughout the day to get on standby for our flight to Seattle. Finally we did board where we encountered a problem with the window seal. That was another hour plus wait first on board then at gate and then back on board. We then got to Air Alaska 10 minutes before that flight went to Fairbanks. So given our luck that put us back a few more hours as we could not board. We arrived at our hotel at 2:30 am their time for about a 26 hour traveling experience.

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Balcony

Cabin BA

An accessible cabin was large and Caribe deck does have large balconies.

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