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Old 12-08-2007, 10:27 PM LuLu is online now     #1 (permalink)
Question PACIFIC NORTHWEST Cruises

In a travel magazine I saw a small ad on Pacific Northwest Cruises -- not much info just "Take a Pacific Northwest Cruise -- a New Experience". Is this the same as a cruise to Alaska? Wonder where it would go?

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Old 12-09-2007, 09:54 PM hanna is online now     #2 (permalink)
Interesting question Lulu. No idea.

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Old 12-09-2007, 10:54 PM LuLu is online now     #3 (permalink)
Me too, Hanna! I'm totally clueless where a Pacific Northwest Cruise would go!

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Old 12-10-2007, 05:41 PM LuLu is online now     #4 (permalink)
Decided to do a bit of research on this ....

HAL is the only major cruise line I could find that offers these. There's a whole section on HAL listing Pacific Northwest & Pacific Coast Cruises.

It seems they are out of California/Washington ports ... 1 to 5 nights ... go to places like Astoria, Oregon .. Victoria, BC .. Vancouver, BC.

They're offer on very nice HAL ships. Maybe, they are fill-ins between Alaska cruises? Maybe folks on the Left Coast use them for SHORT get-aways like we East coast folks do the Bahamas?

It would be interesting to hear from anyone who has actually taken one....

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Old 12-20-2007, 12:37 PM Krazy Kruizers is offline     #5 (permalink)
They are fill-ins for repositioning cruises like Alaska for ships coming from the Caribbean and heading to Alaska.

There are also 1 - 5 day cruises for ships leaving Alaska in the fall and heading back to the Caribbean.

For us to fly across country to do a 3 -5 day cruise would be too stressful and too expensive - airlines and hotels.

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Old 12-20-2007, 02:22 PM canarymoon is offline     #6 (permalink)
There are alos River Cruises that go along Washington and Oregon riverways...

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Old 12-20-2007, 02:29 PM canarymoon is offline     #7 (permalink)
The Majestic America Line offers quite a few river cruises in the American North West.

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Old 12-20-2007, 09:22 PM LuLu is online now     #8 (permalink)
Thanks for the link!

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Old 12-20-2007, 09:27 PM Blizzard is offline     #9 (permalink)
I have done many PNW cruises.

Currently Celebrity does 3/4 cruises out of Seattle for about 4-5 weeks from mid-Sept into October. They go to Vancouver and Naniamo BC.
In the spring they also do a couple 7 night R/T from San Francisco.

Many of the west coast repositioning cruises from California to Vancouver and Seattle are sometimes call PNW's as well.

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Old 12-20-2007, 11:21 PM zydecocruiser is offline     #10 (permalink)
I did one on RCL once that went from Seattle to Victoria and Vancouver.

There are some small ships that cruise the San Juan Islands.

If you saw an ad, it was probably for something like this:
Pacific Northwest Cruises - Small ship cruises from Seattle {they actually have a reasonable single supplement, but limit the cabins}.

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I love the San Juans. Probably time to start thinking about another visit.

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