You just officially replaced me as the Alaska cruise expert on this thread - I've only been on ONE! lol I told someone last night who had been twice that I feel I could do this itenerary at least three or four more times and not get tired of it. So much to see and do in every port!
We will have two 3 year olds in our party - my daughter Izzy and her little buddy Paige. We'll have to meet up in the kids' club or something so they can all hang out! Though my husband has a strict "no dating until she's 35" ploicy...
They did, for the most part. Palo is always tricky with parties of four or more, especially when the parties span THREE DIFFERENT CC CATEGORIES. So we decided we are all going to Palo on Tracy Arm night, just at different times. It's officially "date night"
Brunch will be a bit trickier but I think if we keep watching every day it will work itself out. Worst case scenario, we go to Palo when we board. I've never not been able to fix brunch so all parties sit at the same table.
All excursions are good! We are booked! Now we wait....won't be long now, will it?
I totally second this. The dress code technically *is* no shorts, but I have seen people in the dining room ON FORMAL NIGHT in jean shorts and t-shirts. The only place I've ever seen anyone turned away for dress code was Palo - a woman was sent to change because she was wearing jeans. They were dressy jeans, but clearly jeans nonetheless. She was very gracious about it.
We usually just grab something from the closet for Izzy but this year she totally sprouted up and nothing fits her now! So we decided, because her Belle dress from our first go-around in Alaska is too small, we are going to buy her a new princess dress onboard for formal night. I got a dress on clearance at Target for semi-formal. I'm not worried about any of the other nights, because her regular clothes should suffice - leggings, tutus, jeans and cute tops, etc.
Hope that helps!