10 nights, Vancouver to Vancouver

The itinerary, port by port

8 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) open around September 2026, about 11 months before you sail. I track that window for booked clients and flag it the moment it is worth booking. When to book your flights →

1. Embark
   Vancouver

   Vancouver is the embarkation city for most Alaska sailings, a coastal Canadian metropolis pinned between the harbor and the Coast Mountains, with a forested 1,000-acre park at its tip. Port guide →

2. 2
   Ward Cove (Ketchikan)

   Ward Cove is a cruise berth built on a former pulp mill site about 20 minutes north of downtown Ketchikan, used to spread ships out beyond the crowded downtown docks. Port guide →

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   Sitka (Baranof Island)

   Sitka sits on the outer coast of Baranof Island, the only Southeast Alaska town that faces the open Pacific rather than the Inside Passage, and it was the capital of Russian America before the 1867 Alaska… Port guide →

4. 4
   Sailing the Hubbard Glacier

   Hubbard is the largest tidewater glacier in North America, a 76-mile river of ice that meets the sea at the head of Disenchantment Bay near Yakutat.

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   Seward

   Seward sits at the head of Resurrection Bay on the Kenai Peninsula and is the gateway port to Kenai Fjords National Park, where tidewater glaciers calve into the sea and humpbacks, orcas, sea otters and… Port guide →

6. 6
   Skagway

   Skagway is a four-block gold-rush boomtown at the head of the Lynn Canal, frozen at its 1898 peak as the gateway to the Klondike. Port guide →

7. 7
   Juneau

   Juneau is Alaska's state capital, wedged between the Gastineau Channel and steep forested peaks and reachable only by water or air. Port guide →

8. Disembark
   Wrangell

   Wrangell is a working Southeast Alaska town of about 2,500 people, with no chain jewelry rows or built-for-tourists waterfront. Port guide →