Masaki:
ok..The Princess offers a variety of pre cruise choices - they have their own lodges I understand - Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge (mixed reviews) - Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge (mixed reviews) and on another tour - Fairmont Banff Springs or something like that, which is supposed to be really nice (2 nights). In contrast, the Mariner offers different stays as well, some are just at one hotel for 3-4 days or another package includes among others 2 nights at the Banff Springs hotel, but then goes through Kamloops which it says basically has crummy hotels but they'll pick the best at the discretion of the tour guide (??) which doesn't sound great, then Vancouver hotel 2 nights. Another has a stay at Pikes Wilderness Lodge, Grande Denali Hotel, Alyeska Prince Resort (nice). But then it includes a 7 hour tour by school bus of all things!! None even mention going to Mt. McKinley.

The Banff hotel sounds like a really great place - a friend of my mine stayed there and said it was incredible. I don't know, I'm getting really confused and am ready to go back to Tahiti-PG!!! My TA said we can book pre cruise privately if we want to go with Mariner, but then came up with about $4,000 each for the privately purchased precruise, which is a bit much for us just for the land tour. I just have to re-group and start from the beginning again I guess.
j/