Sunday, July 28, 2019

Back to Juneau (July 10th - 12th)

Boys at the Beach - Gustavus

Wednesday 7/10  With our 3:30p departure from Gustavus, we arrived back at Juneau via the ferry around 8p and immediately caught the shuttle back to the Driftwood Hotel. I was impressed the owner of the Driftwood, a guy by the name of Chuck, was there at the ferry terminal greeting guests and managing the onslaught of passengers looking for shuttle service. Our ship was a little early, and another arriving about the same time, was a little late, so there were a lot of people looking for transportation into town.

About the hotel shuttles, here in Juneau, all of our lodging choices offered free shuttle service to/from the airport and the ferry terminal.  It was very convenient and quite reliable. I  was surprised at the number of people who apparently hadn't done their homework and took taxi's to their hotels.  All of these logistics were part of my front-end research and the reason why I didn't mind paying a slightly higher price for rooms.  You could pay $150+ and use taxis . . . or pay $150-$200 and have the free shuttle service.  It seemed like an easy decision for us, especially when the Alaska TourSaver Coupon booklet provided 2:1 lodging at both the Frontier Suites and Driftwood Hotel.

I will post separate blogs on both Hoonah (Thursday 7/11) and our whale watching tour (Friday 7/12).

Juneau this time around, for these couple of days, was really more of a landing spot for us to coordinate travel to Hoonah and reposition to head on to Skagway by the ferry on Saturday 7/13.  Most of the rest of our time in Juneau these couple of days was down time, catching up on some rest and some DVRed television shows we had with us.  It was good to not always be GO GO GOING, especially given how long some of our days were with being up early and back late.  Our day in Hoonah was like that . . . up by 4a and not back until close to 10p; with an early morning whale tour pick-up at 7:15a the next day.

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