Carnival Spirit Review

Carnival Spirit - Alaska

Review for Alaska Cruise on Carnival Spirit
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big rob
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Aug 2006

for a little back ground on myself im a typical 23yr. old male college kid living in Texas i went on this cruise with my parents and sister and her husband after reading the reviews on here and planning everything i wanted to do and see for months the day finally came and off we went. for some reason carnival placed my parents on different planes different stops and different times considering everything was booked in advanced at the same time im not sure why they would do this but it resulted in us getting on the ship with plenty of time and the ship having to wait for my parents as well as several other thousand people...as far as i know none of this was weather related so it seems someone dropped the ball...

after arriving in Anchorage it was on a bus that takes you to the ship in Whittier, our driver was very interesting and talked all about different things and provided laughs for everyone... actually everyone in Alaska seemed friendly and full of laughs through out the whole trip. after a short ride that involves a tunnel among other things you arrive at the Spirit and we had no trouble at all no long lines no waiting a short check in and on to the ship(after the photo-op. of course)

First morning we woke up to the thundering of glaciers calving its hard to explain but absolutely incredible to watch. our first port was Sitka and for some reason me and my brother in law decided on sportfishing and lets just say its something everyone still talks about haha. the fisherman guides said it was a little bit rougher than normal and that the waves were about 8 ft. however being on a 30 ft. boat and standing there looking up at the water i would have to say the waves were much higher i didnt ever feel unsafe but i was outside my comfort zone haha in Juneau we went to the mendenhall glacier even got some pictures of a bear wasnt expecting to be so close but a very cool experience also i think this is where we went whale watching also something i think everyone should do at least once in Skagway we took a train up into the mountains and over the Canada border its a great experience being in such a different place but i must admit this might not be the greatest for keeping the kids entertained at 23 i did get kinda bored after a while haha in Ketchikan we went on a crabbing excursion it was a great experience out on the water-in the wild and when we returned to the lodge they had a crab feast waiting on us.

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