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 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
   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 →

2. 2
   Sailing the Icy bay

   Icy Bay is a remote, multi-armed fjord on the Gulf of Alaska coast inside Wrangell-St.

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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
   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 →

5. 5
   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 →

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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 →