re: Has anyone had luck streaming a game on a domestic United Airlines Flight.

United is now upgrading all planes to Starlink. Incredible speeds on reviews. Maybe your plane will have Starlink.

Like others said, it depends on luck of the draw with the plane. I have streamed games on both United and American Airlines planes. I have been unable to stream on both. I fly about 10 round trips per year evenly split between the 2. I have YouTube TV and attempt to stream on every flight. I can stream about 80% of the time domestically. 30% international.

I streamed college game day and some of the Ohio State/Texas game this weekend on a 4 hour domestic united flight. Paid $8 for their WiFi and used my directTV stream. Worked like a charm.

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Which cruise?

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Princess leaving out of Whittier Saturday at 8pm. Whittier to Vancouver. Is that the one you are on. I know Princess had another cruise that leaves out same day but goes from Seattle to Juneau and back to Seattle. We originally were doing that one but decided to do the other so we could fly into Anchorage a couple days early and go up to Fairbanks to see the northern lights.

If we are in same cruise, we should try and meet up Saturday night if they are showing the Tech game somewhere in the ship. If it’s even being televised.

I take it that you didn’t get the reference.

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Lol, I can relate. I am about to fly to Japan, so I was curious. Was the "wifi" good enough to doom scroll on social media at least? That is a great way to intermittently kill some time. I am going to bring my Nintendo switch, and download some stuff from streaming services, too. I also made a movie list to look through their catalogue on their seatback screen. I paid $80 for a window seat otw there (12 hrs), but only middle seats available for my economy basic arse flight otw back. I just recall flying back prior from another location and thinking, yeah... I would pay $100 right now not to feel this way.

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My best suggestion, and it might seem obvious, but it was not obvious to me since I am not a huge podcast guy… but I downloaded a bunch of podcasts about various subjects, some comedy type podcasts for if I was in a good mood, and some true crime type stuff in case I was tired and dragging arse haha.. listening to those podcasts made 14 hours sitting in an economy class seat, slightly more bearable… But the best thing you can do is just pop some Benadryl or an Ambien and try to crash out for half the flight if you can .

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Thanks for the tips. How close were you to any whales you saw on the small boat tour in Juneau?

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A couple of times we were within a 100 yards but this was not by design by the guide. The guides prefer to be 200 to 300 yards away to not stress them while they are eating. We just got lucky that the whale surfaced next to us. Seeing the whales is fun but honestly you will most likely only see portions of their body and their tail which is how they identify and name the whales. The scenery on the boat ride is absolutely incredible!

The tour is very similar to spec fishing at grand isle a bunch of boats piled up in an area where the "fish" are and of course watching the seagulls dive at baitfish letting you know where the whale will likely surface next!

On our particular tour there were two whales feeding via a bubbling technique. One of the whales name is Kelp. He put on a show right next to the larger boat which had about 50 people on a balcony. We were about 200 yards away at that point. We also saw sea lions hanging out on a bouy. We probably saw five maybe six different whales that day.

You will also see whales from the ship but then you will typically just see their spouts. However, yesterday, we had an Orca swim about 100 yards along side the ship jumping out of the water for about 2-3 minutes straight. He stayed what appeared to be directly below our balcony the whole time. From the balcony he appeared to be about as big as a dolphin not a whale. It was pretty cool.

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In Skagway, wife was pretty adamant about doing the train. May have to see what she thinks about the DIY jeep. That sounds much more to my liking.

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Problem with bus and trains is your herded around like cattle in large groups. The busses will stop occasionally but with the jeep you get to stop when you want and as often as you want. Plus you get to go and check out Emerald Lake. We found a couple trails and did a small hike around a portion of the lake. My wife hates long drives and being in a car all day and she loved this trip making me stop every 10 minutes or so to take pictures!
We left around 9:00 that morning and returned the vehicle around 6:00 that evening. The first stop on the DIY tour is a cemetery which is pretty neat to see old graves from the gold rush days. There's also a trail that leads to a pretty cool waterfall around 209 foot drop. I think its called Ried Falls.

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In Ketchikan we are doing some kind of guided zodiac tour along the coastline.

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I thought about doing this tour but picked the bear tour instead. I look forward to hearing about your experience next week.

Does your ship go through Glacier Bay? If so you are in for a treat! Glacier Bay and driving the Klondike Hwy was 1a and 1b for the highlights of our trip! Driving up the Dalton Highway and staying two days in arctic circle was great as well.

The DirecTV Live TV channel lineup is significantly limited. If you get lucky, you'll get one of the planes with Starlink which would allow you to stream.

Totally forgot to report back.

Northern Light Excursion out of Anchorage was cancelled due to cloud coverage. Sucks because we switched cruises and lost our balcony room for nothing.

Skagway- did the train. It was nice. Very scenic. Really wished we had done what y’all did but wife was adamant about riding the train. She loved it and was happy. Happy wife happy life…LOL

JUNEAU- Out helicopter sightseeing/glacier walk about was canceled due to rain and cloud coverage. Booked a whale watching tour and struck gold. Was expecting to maybe see a couple humps blowing a hopefully a tail or two. What we got was a mother and calf and they both kept repeatedly full body breaching. They did this for about 10 minutes. Then we moved on and came across another set and they were doing the same thing. The naturalist on our boat was going just as crazy as all the tourists. She said that even though the calves would occasionally fully leap out of the water it was rare for an adult. And we had two sets do it over and over again. It was pretty neat. Then we went to Mendenhall and made the hike to Nugget Falls.

Ketchikan- did the Zodiac/ wilderness adventure. I really enjoyed it. Short hike thru a portion of rain forest up to a closed salmon cannery converted to museum. Took a tour then they loaded each couple into their own rigid bottom inflatable zodiac. We folllowed the guide all around George’s Inlet and saw eagles and had huge sea lion swim right up to our boat. He poked his head up and just watched us for a minute and swam off.DIDNT see any bears though. Guide said if it were summer we likely would have seen orcas coming into inlet to feat on salmon spawning. When we got back to cannery we were treated to snacks and locally brewed craft beers.

Enjoyed the ship. Ate way too much food and wife got pretty drunk every night which was good for me ..LOL. Saw some good musicians and shows. Was disappointed in how touristy all the towns were. Nothing but t shirt shops and jewelry stores. Alaska itself was beautiful and overall I’m glad we went. Will go back again and not do a cruise. Will spend time in seeing the interior.