6 nights, Seward to Vancouver

The itinerary, port by port

7 calls over 6 nights, Seward to 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 Seward (ANC) open around August 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
   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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   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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   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 →

4. 4
   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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   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 →

7. Disembark
   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 →