I guess I already waited too long to book hotels too, the one I wanted appears to be booked already before our cruise. Just still not sure exactly when we’re getting to Vancouver. I’ve booked excursions in Ketchikan (float plane) and Juneau (whale watching) but nothing for Skagway yet. I’d like to squeeze in 2 excursions that day since it’s a later all aboard, but since we have main dining I guess we can’t really take advantage of that unless we eat in Cabanas that night.
ETA: We were able to book the Pan Pacific yesterday for the weekend before our cruise. The website was glitching out and telling me the room was unavailable after I hit confirm booking, but then someone from their reservation team emailed me and told me I had three bookings! Luckily I booked the non-prepay room so they were able to take the extra two off. I'm hoping I'll find a discount I can apply to the room later or even just switch to the Alaska cruise package that includes breakfast, but I'm wary of doing full pre-pay this far in advance so I'm going to wait until we're closer to the date. We haven't booked flights yet and I'm hoping we'll spend more time in Vancouver, but I think we'll do a cheaper hotel or AirBnB if we decide to do that and just switch to the Pan the weekend before the cruise.