thndrmatt said:
thndrmatt said:Actually they were doing late runs to come stare at the wall of clouds between Juneau and the dog camp... I guess a large group from Taku Lodge benefited because their floatplanes couldn't get them out, but our helicopters could. They would come check the route to us, call nojoy, go pick up a bunch of them and head back. We didn't get back to Juneau until 3pm the next day on our 4th attempt. After spending the night in a musher's tent on the ice in the rain. We did get two dog sled rides out of the deal instead of one, and then the next day while Juneau was still under the weather they got us as far as Taku Lodge and fed us the salmon feast that normally comes with that excursion and we saw some bears. As far as I know they got everyone back to the ship other than my wife and I and one crewmember. They said it people got marooned on the glacier only one other time in 13 years...
We were well taken care of for the hotel night in Juneau, commercial flights to Vancouver via Seattle, and another hotel night in Vancouver, but obviously the last half of the cruise got blown away, and we were "traveling" for four days in a row continuously tired rather than relaxed.
While neither the dog mushers, helicopter tour company, or cruise line can take any blame for the weather, and in fact all three took extremely good care of us, it was just an unfortunate set of circumstances. Paid for a seven night cruise and ended up with four...
Actually they were doing late runs to come stare at the wall of clouds between Juneau and the dog camp... I guess a large group from Taku Lodge benefited because their floatplanes couldn't get them out, but our helicopters could. They would come check the route to us, call nojoy, go pick up a bunch of them and head back. We didn't get back to Juneau until 3pm the next day on our 4th attempt. After spending the night in a musher's tent on the ice in the rain. We did get two dog sled rides out of the deal instead of one, and then the next day while Juneau was still under the weather they got us as far as Taku Lodge and fed us the salmon feast that normally comes with that excursion and we saw some bears. As far as I know they got everyone back to the ship other than my wife and I and one crewmember. They said it people got marooned on the glacier only one other time in 13 years...
We were well taken care of for the hotel night in Juneau, commercial flights to Vancouver via Seattle, and another hotel night in Vancouver, but obviously the last half of the cruise got blown away, and we were "traveling" for four days in a row continuously tired rather than relaxed.
While neither the dog mushers, helicopter tour company, or cruise line can take any blame for the weather, and in fact all three took extremely good care of us, it was just an unfortunate set of circumstances. Paid for a seven night cruise and ended up with four...
Actually they were doing late runs to come stare at the wall of clouds between Juneau and the dog camp... I guess a large group from Taku Lodge benefited because their floatplanes couldn't get them out, but our helicopters could. They would come check the route to us, call nojoy, go pick up a bunch of them and head back. We didn't get back to Juneau until 3pm the next day on our 4th attempt. After spending the night in a musher's tent on the ice in the rain. We did get two dog sled rides out of the deal instead of one, and then the next day while Juneau was still under the weather they got us as far as Taku Lodge and fed us the salmon feast that normally comes with that excursion and we saw some bears. As far as I know they got everyone back to the ship other than my wife and I and one crewmember. They said it people got marooned on the glacier only one other time in 13 years...
We were well taken care of for the hotel night in Juneau, commercial flights to Vancouver via Seattle, and another hotel night in Vancouver, but obviously the last half of the cruise got blown away, and we were "traveling" for four days in a row continuously tired rather than relaxed.
While neither the dog mushers, helicopter tour company, or cruise line can take any blame for the weather, and in fact all three took extremely good care of us, it was just an unfortunate set of circumstances. Paid for a seven night cruise and ended up with four...
FE almost everyday. I'm very sorry that I missed the meet, as we lost track of time trying to unpack our luggages. Hopefully, we'll meet again in a future cruise.
I think I would have much rather done that than deal with our flooded stateroom!
Actually they were doing late runs to come stare at the wall of clouds between Juneau and the dog camp... I guess a large group from Taku Lodge benefited because their floatplanes couldn't get them out, but our helicopters could. They would come check the route to us, call nojoy, go pick up a bunch of them and head back. We didn't get back to Juneau until 3pm the next day on our 4th attempt. After spending the night in a musher's tent on the ice in the rain. We did get two dog sled rides out of the deal instead of one, and then the next day while Juneau was still under the weather they got us as far as Taku Lodge and fed us the salmon feast that normally comes with that excursion and we saw some bears. As far as I know they got everyone back to the ship other than my wife and I and one crewmember. They said it people got marooned on the glacier only one other time in 13 years...
We were well taken care of for the hotel night in Juneau, commercial flights to Vancouver via Seattle, and another hotel night in Vancouver, but obviously the last half of the cruise got blown away, and we were "traveling" for four days in a row continuously tired rather than relaxed.
While neither the dog mushers, helicopter tour company, or cruise line can take any blame for the weather, and in fact all three took extremely good care of us, it was just an unfortunate set of circumstances. Paid for a seven night cruise and ended up with four...
You mentioned 4 attempts to bring you back - was the weather too severe so you were forced to go back?
MrHappy said:Hey all, glad to see that most everyone had a great time.
For those that are DVC members and was wondering, we won the lanyard of pins also. I don't know how many actually turned in the referral cards that I handed them, but they told us that we won by 2 cards. They were really happy since at least 2 of the people we referred actually bought into it. We even bought more points ourselves.
For those interested, I gave out the hot coco add-ins and the room ears. I loved all the magnets and stuff that we ended up with, it was great!! I even caught a few people taking pictures of our door since there was so much great stuff on it.
I had so much fun trading pins with Diz and Dumbo. I ended up trading about 350-400 pins, so I am really happy about that. I actually traded with the staff so much that they asked me to stand up with the staff the last day for pin trading with the officers. I also met a bunch of new people and I'm so excited to keep in touch with them later.
I'll be at Disneyland the first week in Oct if anyone wants to meet up there again!! I'm going to try to get there on Friday the 5th and leave on Monday the 8th.
If anyone wants to keep in touch I'm happy to meet up and catch up. Just Facebook me or email me. My email is MrHappy@Cheerful.com!!
