We had always wanted to do an Alaskan cruise and had the fun of going on this one with some friends who had never been on a cruise at all. They loved it and had a few misconceptions about cruising corrected. It was fun to watch THEM have so much fun, and of course we enjoyed almost every minute as well.

Their main misconceptions (as far as I know) were that the ship would be jammed full of people everywhere you turned, not true, and that the cabin might be uncomfortably small, again not the case.

We boarded the ship in Vancouver and got there a day early to avoid and last minute airline mishaps. Boarding time for the Coral Princess was between 1:00 and 3:30; we waited until about 2:30 and the lines were practically nonexistent. Read more