Up pretty early this morning to catch the train to Denali. We were supposed to be in the lounge for departure by 7:10, although we didn’t end up getting off the ship til closer to 7:40. Princess seemed to somewhat drop the ball on this, because apparently we were supposed to have boarding passes to get on the train, and nobody did, so they were giving us little post-it notes with our assigned table. Decent but long train ride (about 10 hours). Did happen to see a bore tide just as our guide was talking to us about them, that was kinda neat to see (basically, the tide coming in as a long wave that runs all the way up the
inlet). Food was fairly pricey on the train ($5 for a cinamon roll, $11 for a cheeseburger). Kinda amazing just how tired you can get when you sit on a train for 10 hours doing nothing.
Get in to Denali and it seems Princess screwed up again here. A very significant portion of those arriving had keys that didn’t work on their doors (including ours). Thankfully we managed to get it taken care of relatively quickly, but I suspect some people were waiting a while. Luggage had managed to arrive in the rooms though, so that’s good. After getting into the room and dropping stuff off, went out in search of some food. Ended up eating at the pizza place at the hotel. Crowded, so getting a table was tough, and very pricey ($30 for a 12″ pizza, some breadsticks, and 2 drinks). However, the pizza was actually pretty
good.
Then it was off to get to bed at a reasonable hour, since our Tundra Wilderness Tour was scheduled for 6:30 the next morning. Ugh.