Originally Posted by quarter man View Post
Has anybody went on a cruise from Hawaii to Alaska cruise? Which company did you use? Also, is it better to start in Alaska and end in Hawaii? We are looking at August 2025 is that a good time? Did you love it? Do you recommend it?
We have no experience cruising.
We cruise about once/year on average. If you haven't cruised before I would suggest taking a shorter cruise first to see whether cruising is for you. Not everyone likes it. Long cruises require acquiring both physiological and mental sea legs. Miami is the cruise capital of the world and there are numerous cruises leaving from Fort Lauderdale, Port Canaveral and Tampa. Taking a 5-7 day cruise out of a FL port that has at least one "day -at-sea" is a good introduction.
We found that NCL offers an excellent Hawaiian cruise the encircles the islands. The ship (Pride of America) is registered in the US and departs and returns to Honolulu. Because it is a US registered ship and travels only to US ports, they must comply with US labor laws and the vast majority of the crew are US citizens. We've done two Alaskan cruises (Princess and Celebrity) and linked a train trip to Danali and Fairbanks with one of them. The aquatic and land scenery and animal sightings were spectacular. If you do only one cruise I would recommend Alaska. Most of it occurs within the inside passage with maybe one day on the rougher ocean and every day is spectacular. From a number of considerations, not the least of which would be packing of clothing for the two environments, I would not try to do Hawaii and Alaska together.
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