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I think your parents would love Holland America, they are known forclass and appeal to a slghtly oldercrowd. I'm in my thirties, and one ofmy best friends swears by them.
Also pull up Fielding's web page andread their reviews also.
I am going to see 3 Princess shipsthis weekend. The Regal, which is alittle older and that is the Crown'ssister ship. Also will tour the GrandPrincess, and the Sea Princess andhave lunch on board. I'll let you knowhow it goes.
Princess competes head to head withHAL in Alaska. They are both goodlines, but I would lean towards HALfor your folks to have a classy time.
P.S. Rent The movie "OUT TO SEA"with Lemmon & Mattheau it was filmedon HAL's Westerdam!Hope this helps....lauri
Lucky we had our personal preprinted itinerary from Princess or I don't know where we would have ended.
When we arrived in Anchorage airport there were Princess representatives there but they did not expect us. When the people they were expecting received their luggage they were ready to go and we about had to beg them to wait for our luggage.
When we arrived at the hotel they did not have a room for us but they did find one after a reasonable time. Likewise there were no tickets for the train, no reservations at hotel in Denali, train to Fairbanks and no reservations at the hotel in Fairbanks. There were representatives in all three hotels but none would take the initiative to correct the error. We were told to check in at the desk tomorrow or at the next hotel. We spent so much time checking, and getting the run arround that it put a damper on the whole tour wondering if we would get to the next stop.
We did make it to all of the events but with the time we spent checking I felt I did not get my moneys worth.
We flew back to Anchorage, boarded the Crown Princess and enjoyed the cruise portion of the trip. We have been on 7 cruises and it seems the food was better on the other lines. Their lobster left a lot to be desired.
We corrosponded with Princess numerous time and all we received was very weak responses.
During 1997 we also cruised on the Westerdam and we probably enjoyed all aspects of this ship over all the others.
From my experience I would recommend Holland American.
Also, if you do rent "Out to Sea" be careful - many of the interior shots were actually filmed on the Queen Mary in Long Beach. You're not going to find interiors like that on any of today's ships.
Joe
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