11 nights, Vancouver to Vancouver

The itinerary, port by port

10 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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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   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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   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 →

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   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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   Sailing the Tracy Arm Fjord

   Tracy Arm is a classic glacier-carved fjord about 30 miles long, roughly 45 to 60 miles south of Juneau, that narrows to barely 300 yards between granite walls rising as much as 4,000 feet from milky…

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   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 →

10. Disembark
    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 →