In Ketchikan, we did the wildlife boat tour with the hopes of seeing bear. We booked the tour through Celebrity, mainly because we could not get the company we wanted to use to answer their phone and we realized Celebrity had contracted with the same company. 
Our tour with Snow's Cove was good, but not great. We saw eagles, seals and sea lions while out on the water. We spent 30 minutes lingering near a creek area looking for bear, but had no success. On our way back to shore, we had porpoise get in a "race" with our boat. It was really amazing to watch how fast they would swim to keep up with us. We shot some really cool video of this. I was disappointed because I had thought our tour would go in to the Misty Fjords, and it did not. It was my own fault for not doing more research, next time we will plan something to take us into the Fjords. 
Ketchikan itself is a pretty junky little tourist trap. The strip of stores near the dock are lots of cruise line owned jewelry stores with jacked up prices. We were really surprised at the lack of restaurants in town. We finally grabbed lunch at Annabelle's, which was really good. We then walked to Creek Street and watched the salmon swim in the creek and shopped around some more. 


Ketchikan

We packed our day in Juneau! As soon as we walked off the ship, we got right on the Mt. Roberts Tram and up to the top of the mountain. The view up here was great and also provided a good photo op of our ship. The little gift shop at the nature preserve up here (not the one in the main building), had very nice things at really good prices. I wish I had bought more gifts there. 
Next we shopped around and bought our "special" souvenir from the trip. We bought a moose antler ulu knife carved to look like a humpback whale from Alaska Knifeworks. They had the best selection we found in both Juneau and Ketchikan. Alaska Shirtworks had very good prices on t-shirts and small gifts. The Alaska Fudge Company had amazing fudge and super good cookies. 
Next we went on a whale tour with Orca Enterprises. We had booked this on our own a few weeks before we sailed. It was worth every penny. We saw lots of humpback whales, many very close to our boat. Captain Larry and his crew clearly knew where to go for the whales and we reaped the benefits. 
Finally, we headed to Mendenhall Glacier Park. From the look-out point, we could see there was a rough path to hike to the waterfall to the right of the glacier. We decided to make the hike and were so glad we did. We crossed some rocky terrain and some creek beds, got a little wet, but it was totally worth it for our up close view of the glacier and waterfall. I highly recommend this. 


Juneau

We really loved Victoria. It was like a European town. Very clean, beautiful flowers everywhere, lots of artist markets. Just stunning. We had nothing planned for Victoria, so we got off the ship and walked to the wharf. From there, we took the harbor ferry to the downtown area. We had lunch at a little tex mex joint (as great as the ship's food was, we were really hungry for mexican, so we found it in Victoria), and then wandered around. The gardens at the Empress are not to be missed - incredible. We then took a pedi-cab back to the ship. The day was perfect! 


Victoria

We spent two days in Seattle following our cruise. We stayed at the new Doubletree Arctic Club Hotel. This was a great location and a very nice property. We spent lots of our time Friday at Pike Market just wandering around looking at all the beautiful flowers and food. That night we had dinner in the Belltown neighborhood. On Saturday, we took the city bus to the Museum of Flight - this is a great museum. We really enjoyed touring the Concord and Air Force One. We took the bus back to downtown and then later took a bus over to the Ballard neighborhood where we shopped and then had dinner at a great place called The Matador. All was great! 


Seattle

Cabin has extra large balcony, literally twice the size of other cabins in this category.  Other balconies were half as deep and enclosed at top.  Our balcony being deeper and having open ceiling made it seem extra spacious.

Cabin located in quiet end of hall, little to no traffic here.

In fact, the morning we sailed in to Victoria, I was drying my hair near the balcony door (where the electrical outlet was located) and saw orca whales right off the side of the ship!First, the itinerary, maybe it is just us, but it seemed like Celebrity got some prime docking time in ports.

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