Alaska Cruises & Tours 2012

While the journey to Alaska is filled with adventures, their remains the option to further enhance the experience with some really incredible shore excursions while on your Alaskan cruise. These tours come in the form of independent tour companies as well as options from your cruise line itself. For the remainder of this site we will be dealing primarily with the independent tour companies in the ports of Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Sitka, Seward and Whittier. Note: Whittier is often referred to as Anchorage in many brochures and itineraries.

Alaska Independent Tours

From the Bering Sea Crab Fishing Tour in Ketchikan to the Helicopter Glacier Landings in Juneau, there is a peoria of options from sea to sky. These tours can be booked while on the ship or from the cruise line when you book the initial cruise. But the option also exists to book your tours in advance via the internet and pass up the middle man ultimately saving you some dollars for your trouble. So let's look at some of the options for the ports along the Alaska cruise routes.

Starting the journey, cruise ships visit the port town of Ketchikan Alaska where a rich history of fishing, lumber and shipping. See Ketchikan Tours.