Alaska Cruise & Vancouver Stay

Day 1 - Fly to Vancouver

On arrival at Vancouver airport,make your own way to your downtown Vancouver Hotel.

Day 2 - Explore Vancouver

Today is yours at your leisure to explore this beautiful city. Speak to one of our Canada Experts for optional excursions to help you take in the best of Vancouver. Vancouver is situated on the edge of the Pacific Ocean and framed by British Columbia's imposing mountains, it's easy to fall in love with this astonishing city. 

Day 3 - Join Holland America Line Alaska Cruise

Make your own way from your hotel to Canada Place and board your Holland America LineCruise for an awe-inspiring 7 night Alaska Cruise.

Day 4 - Cruise Inside Passage

You'll sail beyond the Inside Passage into the more protected Alaska Inside Passage, a complex labyrinth of fjords and bays where whales and sea lions find refuge during the summer months.

Day 5 - Juneau

Juneau, the capital of Alaska, has an air of mystique – a town you cannot reach by road, you need to fly or come by sea!

Juneau delights with an abundance of water, forests and mountains.

Situated between the Coast Mountains and the Gastineau Channel, Juneau offers a lot of variety, with the immense Mendenhall Glacier and the Juneau Icefields at its back door and the Tongass National Forest stretching out to the northeast.

Juneau offers a variety of activities from shopping downtown to dog-sledging, hiking, whale-watching and so much more.

Day 6 - Skagway

Skagway was the gateway to the Klondike gold rush in 1898 and the glory days still resound through the town. Stroll through Skagway and browse the restored buildings and wooden boardwalks at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park or take a ride on the White Pass & Yukon narrow-gauge railway and finish up in the Red Onion Saloon!

Day 7 - Glacier Bay

Glacier Bay National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that protects a unique ecosystem of plants and animals living in concert with an ever-changing glacial landscape. It has more actively calving tidewater glaciers than any place else in the world.

Watch as monumental chunks of ice split off a glacier and thunder into the sea - the impact sending water hundreds of feet into the air. Hold your breath, catch the moment on film. Then wait for it all to happen again. As it always does.

Day 8 - Ketchikan

You've never tasted salmon so fresh. Known as the 'Salmon Capital of the World', Ketchikan is also the ancestral home of the Tlingit people, who have carved the world's largest collection of totem poles. If you're up for an adventure, take a canoe and nature trail excursion through the rain forest or a wilderness exploration followed by a sumptuous crab feast you can't resist.

Day 9 - Inside Passage

You will sail back down the Inside Passage, a complex labyrinth of fjords and bays where whales and sea lions find refuge during the summer months.

Day 10 - Fly from Vancouver

Today after disembarking from your cruise transfer (not included) from Canada Place to Vancouver Airport for your flight back to your choosen airport.