jenseib
Mommy to Claire
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2006
Hi all!
For those that don’t know me, I am Jen. For those that do…well hi again!
I am a mom of 3, 2 grown kids and then my baby who is 10 and a grandmother to a now 10 month old.
For those that know me, you know I am a pretty big Disney fan..nerd..geek…whacko….whatever term you want to use is fine. I’m cool with it. I tend to try and go to Disney World once a year, though it doesn’t always happen and then there are years when I go more than once, so it all evens out in the end.
This year is a non-Disney year believe it or not! We decided to sail on Norwegian (NCL)....to Alaska…. as you can tell my by title.
What? Disney sails to Alaska, so why didn't you sail with them?
Well long story short, we found going out of Seattle was going to work better for us and Disney sails out of Vancouver. And then price and availability was another factor. When I started looking at the week we wanted to cruise, Disney was pretty much sold out. Every so often a stateroom would pop up but the price was sky high. In the end we went with NCL which was almost half the cost of DCL and we got a bigger stateroom category.
When did you go? July 31 we flew into Seattle and set sail on the NCL Jewel on Aug. 1.
Who went?
Well that would be me…obviously…and my husband Skip and my youngest, Claire.
797765 by Jennifer Dowling, on Flickr
I often travel with Claire and my husband comes most times, but he is what I like to call a resister. He complains a lot about vacations, even though I know he has a good time. Things have changed around here a little bit and it was easier for Skip to get away and believe it or not he was excited about this trip!
I will be sharing the good, bad and the ugly….and the beautiful. There was a lot of good and a lot of beautiful…unfortunately there were some bad and ugly as well and I will tell all the details.
I also will also be comparing my experience to Disney Cruise line. I have sailed them 4 times in the past and they are still ranked number 1 to me. I also sailed Princess for the first time last year and I may do some comparisons to them as well.
Please bear with me as I am slow at writing. I edit my pictures as I go and it is time consuming and I am also busy with work and life, so it takes me a while.
Coming up…I will clue you in how this cruise came about…it was not the vacation I had been planning on originally.
For those that don’t know me, I am Jen. For those that do…well hi again!
I am a mom of 3, 2 grown kids and then my baby who is 10 and a grandmother to a now 10 month old.
For those that know me, you know I am a pretty big Disney fan..nerd..geek…whacko….whatever term you want to use is fine. I’m cool with it. I tend to try and go to Disney World once a year, though it doesn’t always happen and then there are years when I go more than once, so it all evens out in the end.
This year is a non-Disney year believe it or not! We decided to sail on Norwegian (NCL)....to Alaska…. as you can tell my by title.
What? Disney sails to Alaska, so why didn't you sail with them?
Well long story short, we found going out of Seattle was going to work better for us and Disney sails out of Vancouver. And then price and availability was another factor. When I started looking at the week we wanted to cruise, Disney was pretty much sold out. Every so often a stateroom would pop up but the price was sky high. In the end we went with NCL which was almost half the cost of DCL and we got a bigger stateroom category.
When did you go? July 31 we flew into Seattle and set sail on the NCL Jewel on Aug. 1.
Who went?
Well that would be me…obviously…and my husband Skip and my youngest, Claire.
797765 by Jennifer Dowling, on FlickrI often travel with Claire and my husband comes most times, but he is what I like to call a resister. He complains a lot about vacations, even though I know he has a good time. Things have changed around here a little bit and it was easier for Skip to get away and believe it or not he was excited about this trip!
I will be sharing the good, bad and the ugly….and the beautiful. There was a lot of good and a lot of beautiful…unfortunately there were some bad and ugly as well and I will tell all the details.
I also will also be comparing my experience to Disney Cruise line. I have sailed them 4 times in the past and they are still ranked number 1 to me. I also sailed Princess for the first time last year and I may do some comparisons to them as well.
Please bear with me as I am slow at writing. I edit my pictures as I go and it is time consuming and I am also busy with work and life, so it takes me a while.
Coming up…I will clue you in how this cruise came about…it was not the vacation I had been planning on originally.
We all understand how work slows things down so will patiently await each update 
I can't believe Claire is 10 - she is so tall now! I loved reading your thoughts on Princess and now NCL too..! We are also sailing Alaska again in 2016 but this time not on 
