ilovecraigandcooper
Mouseketeer
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- Apr 22, 2009
We're cruising to Alaska this june and while I'm super excited I'm also stressing about the cost of it all. The cruise itself I have mostly taken care of. These are the things I'm looking for tips and advise on:
-We live in Georgia so obviously flying is a must. We have flown several times before but not in the last couple years and not since we've had kids. I was looking at southwest fares which weren't TOO bad. Isn't there some magical date to buy flights, like 12 weeks out or 10 weeks out or something like that that's supposed to be cheapest?
-We're flying into Seattle and staying 2 days before we embark and we've looked up some things to do there. (We're thinking of getting the city pass that has the space needle, aquarium, harbor tour and a museum). We also want to go to Pike Market. There's 15 of us traveling together so when pricing hotel/renting a house from vrbo it's much cheaper to do the house but I can't find anything close to downtown. I've looked at several hotels downtown. If you stay right in the city are a lot of things accessible by walking or is it more of a uber/taxi situation regardless?
-On excursions the ship ones are high (even higher than usual it seems). My husband had picked out one for himself that he's doing but as for me and our 9 year old and baby we're not sure what we want to do. Our ports are Skagway, Juneau and Victoria. Anyone done anything at those places that you loved that wasn't so pricey?
-And about the baby...*sigh* I don't know what to do about flights/car seats/etc. I'm not opposed to buying her her own seat on the plane. I think we have plenty of people (15) to pass her around to that she's going to be sitting in laps and I honestly think her own seat would be a waste...and I heard now flights only accept 'airline approved' car seats now which probably isn't what we have so I'd have to buy a new one...AND what do you do with the carseat in seattle? Do you carry it around with you? Do I need it? Is there public transportation? Should I just get a hotel that offers shuttle airport pick up/cruise drop off so we don't need the carseat? oh my gah, loosing my mind...HELP ME
Anyway regardless that I'm stressed I'm also excited! I'm glad that all the extended family is going. Alaska has been our dream for awhile now and it just came together this year! I know it'll be worth it, memories are everything
-We live in Georgia so obviously flying is a must. We have flown several times before but not in the last couple years and not since we've had kids. I was looking at southwest fares which weren't TOO bad. Isn't there some magical date to buy flights, like 12 weeks out or 10 weeks out or something like that that's supposed to be cheapest?
-We're flying into Seattle and staying 2 days before we embark and we've looked up some things to do there. (We're thinking of getting the city pass that has the space needle, aquarium, harbor tour and a museum). We also want to go to Pike Market. There's 15 of us traveling together so when pricing hotel/renting a house from vrbo it's much cheaper to do the house but I can't find anything close to downtown. I've looked at several hotels downtown. If you stay right in the city are a lot of things accessible by walking or is it more of a uber/taxi situation regardless?
-On excursions the ship ones are high (even higher than usual it seems). My husband had picked out one for himself that he's doing but as for me and our 9 year old and baby we're not sure what we want to do. Our ports are Skagway, Juneau and Victoria. Anyone done anything at those places that you loved that wasn't so pricey?
-And about the baby...*sigh* I don't know what to do about flights/car seats/etc. I'm not opposed to buying her her own seat on the plane. I think we have plenty of people (15) to pass her around to that she's going to be sitting in laps and I honestly think her own seat would be a waste...and I heard now flights only accept 'airline approved' car seats now which probably isn't what we have so I'd have to buy a new one...AND what do you do with the carseat in seattle? Do you carry it around with you? Do I need it? Is there public transportation? Should I just get a hotel that offers shuttle airport pick up/cruise drop off so we don't need the carseat? oh my gah, loosing my mind...HELP ME
Anyway regardless that I'm stressed I'm also excited! I'm glad that all the extended family is going. Alaska has been our dream for awhile now and it just came together this year! I know it'll be worth it, memories are everything