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Hey Glo-Bug!If you plan on going RCL like on your previous cruise, You'll probably end up leaving from Vancouver, so you'll have to fly either to YVR (airfare can be brutal!) or SEA (cheaper airfare) and drive about 3 hrs+ north (depending on customs/ crossing the border). We sailed on The Radiance of the Seas, which only went to 3 ports (Juneau, Ketchikan and Skagway) which can be either a good thing or a bad thing depending if you'd rather have more sea days or more port days (We decided sea days were better!). Compared to the Monarch, the Radiance might seem huge! As in the previous post, we did the $10 Mendenhall Glacier shuttle in Juneau. In Skagway we did the White Pass Train for $89 (worth it, although we didn't see any animals except for one duck!). From the ship, we saw seals and eagles, and that's about it, but the animals we did see impressed us. We thought the Hubbard Glacier was great! But we don't knoiw anything about Glacier Bay so we can't compare the two. Onboard there were lots of activities (rock climbing, mini golf, darts, shuffleboard). If you do end up going on RCL, you'll probably go on the Radiance or the Serenade. They're identical, except for a couple of changes. The Serenade is newer, but we chose the Radiance because we thought the arrival and departure times in port were better. Good luck!
Hey Glo-Bug!
If you plan on going RCL like on your previous cruise, You'll probably end up leaving from Vancouver, so you'll have to fly either to YVR (airfare can be brutal!) or SEA (cheaper airfare) and drive about 3 hrs+ north (depending on customs/ crossing the border). We sailed on The Radiance of the Seas, which only went to 3 ports (Juneau, Ketchikan and Skagway) which can be either a good thing or a bad thing depending if you'd rather have more sea days or more port days (We decided sea days were better!). Compared to the Monarch, the Radiance might seem huge! As in the previous post, we did the $10 Mendenhall Glacier shuttle in Juneau. In Skagway we did the White Pass Train for $89 (worth it, although we didn't see any animals except for one duck!). From the ship, we saw seals and eagles, and that's about it, but the animals we did see impressed us. We thought the Hubbard Glacier was great! But we don't knoiw anything about Glacier Bay so we can't compare the two. Onboard there were lots of activities (rock climbing, mini golf, darts, shuffleboard). If you do end up going on RCL, you'll probably go on the Radiance or the Serenade. They're identical, except for a couple of changes. The Serenade is newer, but we chose the Radiance because we thought the arrival and departure times in port were better. Good luck!
