alaska holiday cruises

The popular Alaska holiday cruises bring more than half of all visitors to Alaska.

There's only one way to truly experience the expanse of Alaska's coastline. With a cruise you can go where roads and rails can't.

Many take the opportunity to combine a land tour with the cruise. The top two attractions in Alaska for land tours are Glacier Bay National Park and Denali National Park.

Operators

Because of the popularity of Alaskan cruises, many cruise lines have included Alaskan cruises in their schedule. These cruise lines include:

Carnival Cruise Line
Celebrity
Crystal
Holland America
NCL
Orient Lines
P and O
Princess Cruises
Radisson Seven Seas
Royal Caribbean
Silversea

If you want to experience a land tour combined with the cruise, one of the leading companies offering these packages is Princess Cruises.

Their shore excursions are offered in Alaskan ports of calls including Anchorage, Haines, Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, and Skagway.

You can find a good selection of shore excursions from many of the other cruise line operators as well.