Bucket-List Cruise Adventure

7-Night Vancouver to Whittier Cruise Adventure

Regent · Seven Seas Explorer · from Vancouver

$8,499 per person · next sails Jul 21, 2027 Book this cruise@ Cruisebound · same fare
Get there

Fly into Vancouver (YVR)

Your gateway to the voyage. Arrive a day or two early — the best of the trip starts before you board.

Open-jaw · fly into YVR, home from LAX · $298 for two est.
Before you sail

Bucket-list days near Vancouver

Fly in at least a day early — every seasoned cruiser does, so a delay never costs you the ship. Here’s what’s worth that day, within reach of your port — not just the city you fly into.

58 mi from Vancouver

Private Whale Watching and Wildlife Tour (Capt. Jim's Whale Watching)

Board a comfortable vessel for expert-guided marine wildlife viewing, targeting orca, gray whales, sea otters, and bald eagles with naturalist narrati…

45 mi from Vancouver

Westcott Bay Sea Farms & Oyster Shack

Visit a working oyster farm where you can watch oyster cultivation in the bay, then shuck and eat fresh oysters at a waterfront shack with only raw ba…

Your voyage · 7 nights, day by day

Day by day — the unforgettable thing at every port

Your whole sailing in order: the day you board, every port it calls — each with the single bucket-list experience there and the operator who runs it — any days at sea, and the day you step off.

Day 1
Vancouver Embark
Board in the afternoon — fly in at least a day early (your day ashore here is just above).
Day 2
Willis Islandport guide →
★ Zodiac Circumnavigation of Willis Island — how to make it yours →
Day 3
Prince of Wales Whale & Marine Mammal Quest · $149 for two with Klawock Island Excursionshow to make it yours → ·
Day 4
★ Helicopter Glacier Landing & Guided Ice Walk on th… — how to make it yours →
Day 5
Chilkoot Trail Hike & Float · $284 for two with Skagway Float Tourshow to make it yours →
Day 6
Icy Straitport guide →
River Fishing & Brown Bear Search Wilderness Exped… · $1,000 for two with Alaska Shore Excursionshow to make it yours → ·
Day 7
Willis Islandport guide →
★ Zodiac Circumnavigation of Willis Island — how to make it yours →
Day 8
Whittier Disembark
Disembark in the morning — or stay on for the days just below.
After you disembark

Bucket-list days near Whittier

You end in a different port — stay on, and add what’s within reach before you fly home.

51 mi from Whittier

Kenai Fjords National Park (Day Trip via Tour)

Full-day guided boat tour from Seward (2.5 hours from Anchorage) into a UNESCO-worthy landscape of tidewater glaciers, sea otters, puffins, and fjord…

20 mi from Whittier

Alyeska Resort & Glacier Valley Adventure

Girdwood-based alpine resort (45 minutes from Anchorage) offering summer glacier tramway rides, mountain biking, and alpine hiking. Base camp for acce…

Before you sail

Make it longer — by land from Vancouver

The ship is the spine, not the whole trip. These are full land adventures within reach of your port.

44 mi from Vancouver · fly YYJ

Victoria's Wild Coast: Falconry, Gold Mines, and the Pacific

Coastal Wilderness Luxury

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130 mi from Vancouver · fly SEA

Tacoma's Wild Side: Puget Sound, Quarries & a Volcano

Pacific Northwest Adventure Base

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130 mi from Vancouver · fly SEA

Salt Air and Oyster Shells: A San Juan Islands Sailing Guide

Island Hopping Pacific Northwest

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After you disembark

Make it longer — by land from Whittier

The ship is the spine, not the whole trip. These are full land adventures within reach of your port.

99 mi from Whittier · fly SAN

Salt Marsh to Surf Break: San Diego's Wild, Cultured Edge

Coast Culture Adventure

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Home

Fly home from Whittier (ANC)

What this adventure runs estimated · for two
Your hotel
Flights open-jaw · fly into YVR, home from LAX · 2 travelers $298 est.
Hotel before you sail1 night · Vancouver · Luxury~$450
Cruise fare7 nights · Regent · 2 guests$16,998
Shore excursions3 bucket-list things, booked direct · for 2 · swap any at its port above ↑~$1,433
Transfersairport ↔ ship, private car~$180
Trip total$19,359
Flights are estimated from our best gateways (refine from your own airport above) — an open-jaw trip: out to the embark port, home from where you disembark; the cruise fare is this sailing’s lead-in price for two; the hotel scales with the style you pick above; shore excursions are real book-direct operator prices, added as each port is curated; transfers are an estimate. We always build in at least one night ashore before you sail.
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