11 nights, Vancouver to Vancouver

The itinerary, port by port

9 calls over 11 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 →

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
   Ketchikan (Revillagigedo Island)

   Ketchikan is Alaska's southernmost cruise town, a steep fishing port wedged between the Tongass rainforest and the Inside Passage on Revillagigedo Island. Port guide →

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   Icy Strait Point (Hoonah)

   Icy Strait Point is a converted 1912 salmon cannery on Chichagof Island, the only Alaska Native-owned cruise port in the state, built and run by the Huna Tlingit of neighboring Hoonah. 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.

5. 5
   Haines

   Haines is the quiet alternative to neighboring Skagway: no float planes overhead, no jewelry-store gauntlet, just a small fishing town wrapped around a restored 1904 Army post under the Chilkat and Coast… Port guide →

6. 6
   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 →

7. 7
   Sailing the Endicott Arm (Dawes Glacier)

   Endicott Arm is a fjord more than 30 miles long that branches south off Holkham Bay, about 45 miles south of Juneau within the Tongass National Forest.

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   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 →

9. Disembark
   Prince Rupert (Kaien Island)

   Prince Rupert is a small fishing and First Nations port on Kaien Island, the last Canadian stop before the Alaska panhandle, set in the Great Bear Rainforest. Port guide →