Well, we just found out that a somewhat big group would be on the Alaska cruise we had booked. I heard big groups can disrupt the enjoyment of the other passengers by closing off certain areas of the ship (dining room, theater, etc.) from the rest of the passengers for their exclusive use. We won’t want that, so we switched to a different cruise.

Our new cruise will be:

7-day Alaskan Inside Passage aboard Holland America Nieuw Amsterdam
8/31 – 9/7/2019

It’s a 7-day round-trip from Vancouver instead of Seattle, on a ship that’s pretty much identical to Eurodam. Itinerary is very similar too, except that we’ll have Skagway instead of Sitka, which is a bit of a bummer, since we’ve been to Skagway, but not to Sitka. But I like the idea of going through the Inside Passage, and this ship offers the optional Tracy Arm boat excursion that departs from the ship.

So I think it turned out OK. Just hope no groups will book this cruise!