8 nights, Vancouver to Vancouver

The itinerary, port by port

7 calls over 8 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
   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 →

3. 3
   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
   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 →

5. 5
   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…

6. 6
   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 →

7. Disembark
   Victoria

   Victoria is the small, walkable capital of British Columbia on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, an unhurried city of heritage stone, gardens, and a working Inner Harbour. Port guide →