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 July 2027, 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
   Sitka (Baranof Island)

   Sitka sits on the outer coast of Baranof Island, the only Southeast Alaska town that faces the open Pacific rather than the Inside Passage, and it was the capital of Russian America before the 1867 Alaska… 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
   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.

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 →