Sailing to Alaska on the Mercury
My husband and I took an amazing Alaskan cruise on the Mercury, a ship in the Celebrity Cruise line. It sailed roundtrip from Canada Place in Vancouver, B.C. and visited three ports: Juneau, Skagway and Ketchikan. We had been to all three of the ports before, so we spent most of our Port time walking around on our own. We did catch the Lumberjack show in Ketchikan which was a lot of fun.
The Mercury is a beautiful ship with an attentive crew. There are activities going on throughout the day from movies to trivia and bingo games, to lectures to culinary demonstrations. Then at night there was always some kind of entertainment scheduled in the main theater. Sadly, the entertainment wasn't very good. We really enjoyed the comedian but the ship productions were no better than most high schools could put on! They do have a Casino, with a small non-smoking area as well as multiple locations where we were able to listen to live music.
The Mercury has traditional dinning which means we ate at the same time, same table every night. We were lucky to get a table for just the two of us and a great set of waiters. Breakfast and lunch are open seating where we could sit at a small table alone, or join a large table of our fellow cruisers. They also had a buffet which was open for breakfast and lunch but for some odd reason, not for dinner. If you were looking for something quick, there was a pizza/pasta bar, a grill out by the pool and of course 24 hour room service.
We had a wonderful, relaxing time and would sail the Mercury again!
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We took an Alaskan cruise with a different company. I saw a Celebrity ship and it looked awesome! Too bad about the entertainment. That was one of the best things on our ship.
Sounds like a fun and relaxing time!!
I totally enjoyed this very well written and lively review!
If you could add a ballpark price as an update it would be great! I'd sure love to cruise the Alaskan coast.
I have always wanted to take a cruise and I have always wanted to take the Alaskan cruise. I have friends who have done it and said it was the best cruise they ever took. Thanks so much for the information.
Alaska is high on our list of cruises to take. I would love to do it on Celibrity.
I would love to do an Alaskan cruise. It sounds fun!
Have always wanted to take an Alaskan Cruise, thanks for the info on Celebrity, have never cruised on that line. Sounds like fun.
That stinks the enterntainment was very good. The rest of the cruise sounded like alot of fun. I really would like to take a cruise to Alaska someday. Great review.
I did this trip seven years ago. I also did it once on another ship about 12 years ago. This was a good time :)
Sounds like fun! I hope to go on a cruise like that someday!
What a fabulous cruise this sounded like!!!!
im not sure about alaska, but would love a cruise
Sounds like an amazing cruise... my hubby has been to Alaska but I would love to visit someday.
This sounds wonderful, I have never been on a cruise, have always wondered if it would be something I would like, great review, thanks for sharing
friends did an Alaskan cruise and loved it, sounds wonderful
i would love to go on a cruise like this!
I've been trying to get a group of friends together for a cruise...Alaska is one of the destinations we've been considering, Hawaii is another with the Caribbean sort of in there too :) This is a very helpful review as I wasn't too certain about this line...you've helped a good deal, great review thanks
Thanks for the pictures. It looks like a nice boat.