Welcome back Jan! Loooove your pics. We have cruised to Alaska twice once on the Sea Princess (which we added the cruisetour to and FELL IN LOVE WITH ALASKA!) The next one was on the Diamond Princess. We have been out of San Francisco and Seattle and absolutely love them both. We also did Muirwoods and Sausalito .... magic, although I think I love the feel of Seattle a little more. As you can see by my signature we were loyal Princess fans and still think they are the absolute best for Alaska and then we found Royal Caribbean. We never had a bad experience on Princess, love the ships - I think we can safely say we love Princess and Royal equally. I see you are going on the Brilliance soon .......