Dateline: 2015-05-24, Sunday Location: Ketchikan, Alaska Besides touring the town of Ketchikan, (covered in this Blog entry: Ketchikan), we went on a boat tour of the surrounding harbor to spot eagles and other wildlife. Our captain was a…
Dateline: 2015-05-24, Sunday Location: Ketchikan, Alaska Today we docked in the picturesque town of Ketchikan. All of the buildings and shops around the pier area where ships dock are colorful and have the unique architecture of an Alaskan…
Dateline: 2015-05-23, Saturday Location: Celebrity Millennium, galley area This first full day of our Alaskan cruise was a day at sea, sailing through a portion of the Inside Passage. Since there wasn’t a port and excursions to do, we…
Dateline: 2015-05-22, Friday Location: aboard Celebrity Millennium in Vancouver Arriving at Canada Place If you take a taxi from your hotel to Canada Place on embarkation day, you don’t have to worry about directions and where to drive…
Dateline: 2015-05-22, Friday Location: aboard Celebrity Millennium at Vancouver’s Canada Place pier Behind the Scenes I love seeing how things function behind the scenes, whether it’s movie or TV extras that show filming or costume design, how busy restaurant…
Dateline: 2015-05-21, Thursday Location: Vancouver Harbour and city Read the associated Blog entry of our adventure just getting to Vancouver: travelagentphoenix.com/2015/09/21/vancouver-bc-canada-getting-there/ If you’re coming in the day of your cruise (again, not recommended!), you probably will…
Dateline: 2015-05-21, Thursday Location: PHX airport, YVR airport See this picture below? That’s two mechanics (there were a total of four just a few minutes earlier) with part of a jet engine casing lifted up. That was our plane…
Dateline: 2015-01-03 to 06, Saturday to Tuesday Location: Pacific Ocean and Ensenada, Mexico We recently took a long weekend and went on a getaway cruise aboard the Crown Princess, sailing from the World Cruise Center (Los Angeles) to…
Dateline: 2014-12-07, Sunday Location: Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, Florida In early December, I was lucky enough to be able to perform a travel agent ship inspection of the Regal Princess. The Regal is one of Princess’ newest ships,…
Dateline: 2014-12-25, Thursday Location: Arizona I suppose the benchmark for rating an experience is answering the question, “Would you do it again?” To go ahead and address that right up front, my answer is “definitely yes”! I’m already thinking…