Hi Wandra and Karen,

I made the mistake of telling my husband what was written and he freaked. I'll explain a bit. I personally am just happy to go to Alaska, and step foot on Alaskan soil. I'm celebrating my health and the fact that I lived to do it.
My husband is very good to me. He gives me NYC 2x a year for the last 4 years and believe me when I say I could do a cruise instead for each trip to NYC easily, for what each of those trips cost, I'm not jokeing, due to the cost of the broadway shows, restos that I go to and the hotel/parking itself. Plus the "extras" that I won't even go into.
This is his one trip where he can take a lot of pictures and the Tracy Arm from all he read means a lot to him. For me, I don't care as much as I'll be happy with what I see as I've booked the couple of excursions I wanted privately.
In the last 5 years, he has given me carte blanche of where I want to go and what I want to do.I always do all the planning, booking etc. Especially NYC since I grew up in the City and still keep up with everything there even though I have no family there anymore. His clients come to him (to ask me) for advice on NYC.
He allowed me the same freedom for Alaska, with two conditions, he gets his "photo ops" and no formal dinner attire, otherwise I had carte blanche. He personally didn't want a cruise, preferring to fly into Alaska and take 3 weeks to tour. I didn't want to go for 3 weeks at a time (I worry about my mom, who will take her grocery shopping), so I said (not implicating my mom as she would feel guilty)that I didn't want the extra "flight" and that my dream trip was a cruise and that's why I'm stressing.
So there you have it, he's a good hubby, and it's very important to me that he will be happy on this trip. I've put over 18 months of work into this trip (since x-mas of 2003)with research, phone calls to Alaska, etc. trying not to leave anything to chance.

I hope no one here thinks badly of me for what I wrote. I think y'all deserve a lot of perks for all those cruises, I think y'all deserve the perks (freebies), personally I must add though, that if I had all those cruises under my belt, "money" rewards would be what I would like to see. But of course that would cut into their "bottom line". If they give free excursions, bigger discounts, etc, that cuts into their bottom line. Giving priority doesn't cost them anything, just perhaps the loss of a customer which can and most likely will be replaced by someone else.
I hope y'all understand what I'm saying and don't think badly of me for voicing my opinion.