10 nights, Vancouver to Vancouver
Explora's name for it: A Journey of Spectacular Nature & Wild Adventure
Ten nights round-trip from Vancouver, where the ship berths at Canada Place right downtown and Gastown and Stanley Park are a walk from the gangway. From there it works the Inside Passage with seven shore calls and two full cruising days set aside for ice. The rhythm leans walkable: Ketchikan drops you 0.1 to 0.3 miles from Creek Street and the totem collection, Haines ties up at the foot of Fort Seward in the quiet town next door to Skagway, and Icy Strait Point puts you straight onto the only Alaska Native-owned port in the state, with a free gondola between piers. The glacier days are the punctuation. Hubbard, the largest tidewater glacier in North America, runs about seven miles wide; Endicott Arm narrows to a granite corridor that ends at Dawes, with the face usually in view around 7 to 8 a.m.
This one rewards a traveler who wants the lived-in Alaska over the excursion midway. Wrangell and Prince Rupert are working towns of a few thousand, with rock art and humpbacks instead of jewelry rows. If you want big-name thrills and float-plane glamour, you will notice Skagway is not on the list and that two days are spent watching ice from the rail rather than ashore. Pick a different routing if sea-day stretches feel like dead time to you.
EXPLORA III is all-suite, all-oceanfront.
The itinerary, port by port
9 calls over 10 nights, round-trip from Vancouver. Open any port for my full day-ashore guide, what to see, when to go, and how the day actually runs.
Getting there: Flights to Vancouver (YVR) are already bookable for these dates. I watch the fare for booked clients so you book at the right moment. When to book your flights →
- Embark
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- 4 Sailing the Hubbard Glacier
- 5
- 6
- 7 Sailing the Endicott Arm (Dawes Glacier)
- 8
- Disembark
Fares on this departure, decoded
Reading the fare fine print is the job. Here's what this sailing currently carries:
- Invitation to Discover More
- Explora's discovery fare, available across most of the calendar. Onboard credit where the offer applies.
The ship and your suite
This sailing is aboard EXPLORA III, all-suite, every suite with a private ocean-front terrace. Suites run from the entry Ocean Terrace to the Owner's Residence; the right tier depends on how you travel. Compare suites → · What's included →