So our cruise venture ended today, and 3 of our band head back to reality. They have a train ride from the seaport to Anchorage, where they will catch their plane for a very long ride home.
Celebrity has the exit process down. Your luggage is snatched the night before and you have to be out of the room by 7(ish), you can get breakfast at the buffet and then wait in the lobby until your number is called. For those of us going on to the land part of the trip, our luggage will magically appear wherever it is that we are going next.
It's hard to get much smoother than that.
We leave the ship today and begin the land portion of our trip. Because the writing of these days is delayed, there may be some details that we miss.
We signed up for the land portion of the trip. Most of this is done by “motorcoach”. This is travel agent talk for “Greyhound Bus”, but the bus stops are cleaner and panhandlers aren’t usually coming up to bum a cigarette or change.
We have a “cruise director”, a nice young man who keeps us on target schedule-wise and makes sure we know where to go next, and we have the same bus driver until we get off the train in Anchorage.
While there are interesting things about this part of the trip, we probably would not sign up for it again. Whereas the cruise ship is extremely comfortable – even bordering on luxury – this part of the trip is not.
It’d been a while since we had been on a charter bus. The first thing you notice is that the seats are tight. Like “Coach airline seat” tight, which is one thing to endure for a 2 hour jaunt and quite another for several days.
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