Cruise Port Guide
The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Charter a private luxury motor yacht through Prince William Sound's most dramatic waters — calving glaciers, sea otters, orcas, and secret anchorages yours alone. This is Prince William Sound exactly as it should be experienced: unhurried, uncrowded, and entirely on your terms.
Lift off by helicopter over the colossal Columbia Glacier — one of North America's largest tidewater glaciers — then land on the ancient ice for a guided walk through a blue-creviced otherworld. Few experiences in Alaska rival the sheer scale of standing on a glacier that stretches 34 miles into the Chugach mountains.
Spend a full day navigating the iceberg-studded waters of Prince William Sound past 26 named glaciers, with an expert naturalist narrating every encounter with humpbacks, orcas, Steller sea lions, and puffins. This is the definitive water-level glacier and wildlife experience in Alaska.
Glide your kayak to within arm's reach of Blackstone and Beloit glaciers — two of Prince William Sound's most active tidewater glaciers — in the silence of a wilderness bay. Paddling among icebergs while harbour seals bob curiously alongside is an utterly unforgettable Arctic encounter.
Explore the magnificent Keystone Canyon — a dramatic gorge carved by glacial meltwater, draped in waterfalls and riddled with gold-rush-era history — then walk the historic port of Valdez, epicentre of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill and one of Alaska's most storied towns.
Board a nimble expedition Zodiac and penetrate deep into Unakwik Inlet to reach Meares Glacier — one of the few advancing tidewater glaciers in Alaska — drifting through a chaos of bobbing ice to the very edge of its thundering calving face. This is raw, visceral Alaska.
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