The Best Alaska Cruise Tours
Cruise tours are land vacations taken in conjunction with a ocean cruise. Passengers on cruise ships to Alaska can take a multi-day cruise tour in Alaska after taking the cruise ship or follow up the land tour with a sea cruise back to the mainland U.S. Alaska is popular for its rugged beauty, remote destinations and abundant wildlife.
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Ultimate Alaska-Yukon Escorted Cruise Tour
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Holland America Line offers an 18 or 19-night cruise tour that explores the major destinations of both Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. Transport includes deluxe motor coach, glass-domed train and catamaran and stern-wheeler river excursions. Major stops include Mt. McKinley, Denali National Park, Kluane National Park of Canada and historic gold mining towns like Dawson Creek and Whitehorse, Canada and Eagle and Tok, Alaska. The land portion is accompanied by a tour director to guide and direct. This cruise tour can either start with a sea cruise to Seward, Alaska, then a looping land tour through Alaska and Canada to Vancouver or reverse with the land tour first then cruise from Seward back to Vancouver.
Holland America Line
300 Elliott Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
hollandamerica.com
Alaska Cruise and Train
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Princess Cruises offer 13-night cruise tours that combine a seven-night cruise of the inland passage including the stunning Glacier Bay combined with a land portion featuring glass-domed train travel through the Alaska wilderness. Highlights include Mt. McKinley, Denali National Park and Fairbanks, Alaska. While in Fairbanks a sternwheeler cruise is taken on the Chena and Tanana Rivers. Travelers can elect to take the cruise portion either northbound or southbound.
Princess Cruise Lines / Carnival Corp.
3655 NW 87th Avenue
Miami, FL 33178-2428
305-599-2600
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Escorted Arctic Ocean Journey
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Holland America Line has the option for a cruise tour that includes travel to the Arctic Ocean during the land portion. From Anchorage, Alaska travel is by glass-domed train through the wilderness to Fairbanks, Alaska with a stop at the Denali National Park. Deluxe motor coach from Fairbanks up the Dalton Highway includes a stop at the Gates of the Arctic National Park at Coldfoot, Alaska before continuing on to Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean. After a day exploring the Bay a flight is taken back to Anchorage. The land travel is accompanied by a dedicated Tour Director. The cruise leg can be before or after the land tour and includes seven days of glacier focused routes.
Holland America Line
300 Elliott Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
hollandamerica.com
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