[ale] Fwd: Jim - cannot post this message to ALE, please post for me

Wed May 9 13:26:10 EDT 2012

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 15:13 +0000, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> While I might feel "small" compared to the scenery I've always feared
> I wouldn't compared to the cabins.  I'm 6'3" and it has been years
> since anyone described me as "gaunt".   My understanding is that many
> cruise ship cabins are best suited for hobbits.

Not true at all.  Even inside cabins can be quite nice.  Smaller than a
luxury hotel room for sure but, even at 6'3" you won't feel cramped in
one.  And you really don't spend a lot of time in your cabin, other than
sleeping and changing and what not, anyways.

Even when we were on the Windsurf (a sailing ship in the Windstar lines)
the cabins were comfortable.

> Interesting you bring it up though - I've been trying to decide
> whether I should drive to Alaska this summer as it is the only
> continental state I haven't driven to (or been to at all) or
> investigate cruises.

Alaska, we took the "Sun Princess", a cruiser class ship (~1500
passengers) and it was wonderful.  I'm less impressed with the larger
grand cruiser class ships (~3,000 passenger).  They just seem to have
gotten too big at that scale.  But we've been on several of those as
well and they are still very very nice.

If you have 2 weeks, go for a cruise tour where you can tour up to
Fairbanks by rail and cruise the inside passage before or after.  If you
have three weeks, you can make a "midnight sun" tour above the arctic
circle.  Fairbanks gets you high enough that, in the summer, the sun
only goes down below the horizon for about and hour and it never gets
darker than dusk.

Regards,
Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Brian MacLeod
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 10:32 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Fwd: Jim - cannot post this message to ALE, please post for me
> 
> On 5/8/12 10:10 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> > You're correct.   I forgot about ships because I've never taken a
> > cruise.
> 
> 
> If you aren't highly susceptible to motion sickness, I'd say put it on
> the bucket list. The Alaskan cruises remind you just how small you and
> the ship are.  :-)
> 
> 
> > Says: "Valid when entering the United States from Canada, Mexico,
> > the Caribbean and Bermuda at land border crossings or sea
> > ports-of-entry. Not valid for international travel by air."
> >
> > My read of that is it wouldn't be valid for a cruise across the
> > Atlantic from Europe.  (Do they even do those any more, I wonder?)
> 
> 
> Yes, they do, though not as frequently, and they are one way.  More
> often than not, when a cruise line is repositioning a ship, they will
> sell special itineraries for this purpose.  Carnival has 3-4 of these
> coming up in the next year for extremely low prices (less than $50 a
> night for a room and food!), but you have to find your way to/from
> port, depending on debarkation point.
> 
> 
> > The sentence is funny as it seems to imply there are land border
> > crossings with the Caribbean and Bermuda even though that isn't
> > its intent. (Before anyone says it:  The Florida Keys don't count
> > because no passport is required drving back from from them to the
> > rest of the US even if Key West calls itself the "Conch Republic".
> > :p)
> 
> 
> The intent is to try and highlight that the cruises you can do this
> with are supposed to be "closed-loop", meaning you start and end in
> the same port.  Again, there are several cruises that are specials
> when they rearrange ships, like through the Panama Canal or
> repositioning between Miami/New Orleans/San Juan, PR.  You'd need a
> full on passport for those as well.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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