6:00PM

Seward might be the most beautiful embarkation port in Alaska - surrounded on all sides by Kenai Fjords National Park, Chugach National Forest, and Resurrection Bay, it's a town that makes you wish you had more time before the ship sailed. Founded...

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1:00PM – 4:00PM · 3hr

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9:00AM – 8:00PM · 11hr

Icy Strait Point sits just outside the native Tlingit village of Hoonah, and it has a legitimately interesting origin story - a restored 1930s salmon cannery that now serves as the port's cultural and culinary hub. The whale watching here is excep...

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7:00AM – 8:30PM · 13hr 30min

Skagway is history preserved in amber - the downtown district is part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, and it looks almost exactly as it did when 100,000 prospectors flooded through in 1897 looking for a shortcut to the Yukon go...

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7:00AM – 5:00PM · 10hr

Alaska's capital city is the one you can't drive to - bounded by mountains and water, it's only reachable by sea or air, which gives it an island-community feeling despite being the seat of state government. The contrasts are part of the charm: fl...

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8:00AM – 4:00PM · 8hr

Wrangell is the Alaska that most cruise passengers never see. Off the route of the larger ships, it's one of the oldest communities in Southeast Alaska - the only Alaskan city to have flown Russian, British, and American flags - with a rough-aroun...

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7:00AM

Vancouver is the kind of city that disembarkation day almost feels like a gift rather than an ending. The setting - mountains behind, ocean in front, Stanley Park jutting into the harbor - is legitimately one of the most beautiful urban environmen...

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