Glaciers to Denali

Guest arrive and transfer to the Westin Seattle Downtown (or similar) for a two night stay.

This morning, your travel host will meet you for a city tour of the beautiiful Emerald City and lunch at Ivar’s Seafood one of our favorite local restaurants. Lunch is always best enjoyed overlooking the beautiful Puget Sound.

We travel aboard the new 'Cascades' train along the Puget Sound to Vancouver this morning, a pretty and relaxing journey followed by a ten-minute transfer to the pier and ms Nieuw Amsterdam.

Alaska's Inside Passage is a renowned cruising route through a protected network of waterways, featuring glacier-cut fjords, lush rainforests, and diverse wildlife. Stops along the route showcase Alaska's rich history, including Native Alaskan culture in Ketchikan and Skagway's Gold Rush era legacy.

Take an adventure and cruise to Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska's "First City" of Ketchikan is so named because it’s the first major landfall for most cruisers as they enter the fjords of the Inside Passage, where the town clings to the banks of the Tongass Narrows, flanked by green forests nurtured by abundant rain.

Cruise to Juneau and visit the most remote, most beautiful and strangest state capital in the United States. Surrounded by water, forest and mountain sights, visitors seeking things to do in Juneau indoors and outdoors can hike a glacier, eat fresh-caught fish on a seaside patio and tour a grand capitol building all in one day.

At the height of the Klondike Gold Rush, the port town of Skagway served as the primary gateway to the gold fields, and quickly grew into Alaska’s largest settlement. It was then a raucous frontier hub packed with trading posts, saloons and guesthouses.

ON your cruise to Glacier Bay, close your eyes and take in the sounds—the creaks and groans of “living” ice, the shrill cries of gulls and soaring eagles, the splash of a breaching humpback whale. Frosted peaks towering over mossy forests, wide tidewater glaciers (there are seven in the park), and marine wildlife are givens on Glacier Bay cruises, but every experience in this changing biosphere is unique.

An Alaska glaciers cruise is the best way to see majestic, centuries-old rivers of ice cascading from the mountains to the sea. Glaciers have shaped many Alaska lakes, rivers and valleys one slow centimeter at a time.

The Whittier, Alaska cruise port is a unique stop on a Holland America Line cruise tour. Here we board the Mc Kinley Explorer train for the beautiful ride to Denali.

Denali is the number one reason to book Alaska cruisetours into the state’s rugged wilderness and it’s easy to understand why. At an impressive 20,310 feet above sea level, Denali isn’t just any mountain; it’s the centerpiece of Alaska’s interior, a shining jewel rising above pristine Alaska wilderness.

This morning, a drive brings us to Fairbanks where a riverboat discovery cruise awaits followed by an overnight hotel stay, making easy air connections home the next day simple and easy..

Time in Fairbanks, AK, USA.