Alaska cruise 2024

Alaska has breathtaking landscapes that are unrivaled anywhere else. In the highlands, there are untouched forests, and massive glaciers are gently melting away to the sea. Keep your eyes out for whales breaching the water’s surface and bears ambling around the meadows. Cruises to Alaska in 2024 are available from Juneau, Ketchikan, San Francisco, Seattle, Seward, Sitka, Vancouver, and Whittier.

Alaska Cruise Lines 2024

Cruising in Alaska can range from viewing the highlights on a huge ship with the possibility of shore excursions to more distant locations to spending the majority of your stay in the wilderness.

A wide selection of cruise lines will sail in Alaskan waters in 2024, including Carnival Cruise Line, Disney Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, and Viking Cruises.

Many cruise lines, such as Celebrity Cruises, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, and Royal Caribbean, provide land options that can be coupled with your trip to take you to Anchorage, Fairbanks, the Kenai Peninsula, Denali National Park, and the Yukon Territory.

A small-ship Alaska cruise is one of the most intensive ways to explore Alaska’s coast. Several cruise lines, like American Cruise Lines, Lindblad Expeditions, and UnCruise Adventures, offer small ship Alaska cruises.

The most luxurious Alaska cruise lines, including Regent Seven Seas, Seabourn Cruise Line, and Silversea Cruises, offer fewer passengers and more intimate, personalized shore excursion experiences.

Alaskan wilderness

Alaska cruises in 2024 include a pass by some tidewater glaciers including Glacier Bay, Hubbard Glacier. Tidewater glaciers are a type of glacier that flows directly into the sea and can calve violently into the water. Passing through the Inside Passage, the most popular cruises visit areas like Strait of Georgia, and Tracy Arm. With a few exceptions at Haines, Hoonah, and Sitka, cruises also visit Ketchikan, Skagway, or Juneau.

Southeast Alaska is aslo home to the Tongass National Forest, which is the largest national forest in the whole country. As part of Tongass National Forest, Alexander Archipelago is a collection of about 1,100 islands stretching along Alaska’s southeast coast.