Bucket-List Cruise Adventure

7-Night Vancouver to Anchorage Cruise Adventure

Princess · Crown Princess · from Vancouver

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.

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
A day at sea
⛰ A day to savor the ship — the voyage itself is the experience, and it’s all included.
Day 3
Misty Fjords Floatplane with a Wilderness Water La… · $790 for two with Island Wings Air Servicehow 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
Glacier Bay
⛰ A scenic-cruising day — savor it from the ship. The view is the experience, and it’s included.
Day 7
College Fjord
⛰ A scenic-cruising day — savor it from the ship. The view is the experience, and it’s included.
Day 8
Anchorage Disembark
Disembark in the morning — or stay on for the days just below.
After you disembark

Bucket-list days near Anchorage

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

0 mi from Anchorage

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…

0 mi from Anchorage

Exit Glacier (Day Trip from Anchorage)

Accessible glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park (3 hours from Anchorage) where visitors walk directly onto blue glacier ice; marked routes show the g…

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.

5 mi from Vancouver · fly PDX

Painted Hills, Pinot, and the Gorge: Oregon at Full Volume

Waterfalls, Wine, Wild Oregon

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5 mi from Vancouver · fly PDX

Salt Air & Old Growth: Manzanita's Quiet Oregon Coast

Coastal Forest & Craft Food

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126 mi from Vancouver · fly SEA

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

Pacific Northwest Adventure Base

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After you disembark

Make it longer — by land from Anchorage

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

4 mi from Anchorage · fly ANC

Alaska's Wild Heart: An Anchorage Adventure Worth Every Mile

Glaciers, Wildlife & Game Dining

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Home

Fly home from Anchorage (ANC)

Treat yourself — the same trip, elevated

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Every cruise line that calls at Vancouver — round-trip from here or stopping by — pick the one that’s you, then your date.

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