Millennium Alaska Cruise Excursions

Can I get some excursion recommendations. We will be on the Millennium August 25th to September 1st. are stops will be Seward, Juneau, Skagway, Icy straight , and Ketchikan. Also do most people book through the cruise line? Anyone who booked excursions themselves how did it work out for you? Will also be doing the land portion before the cruise. stops will be Anchorage, Denali, Talkeetna, and Alyeska would love good restaurant and bar options as well as excursion options in these towns.

Thanks so much!

You might do some reading on the Alaska board here, under Ports of Call. EM

Can I get some excursion recommendations. We will be on the Millennium August 25th to September 1st. are stops will be Seward, Juneau, Skagway, Icy straight , and Ketchikan. Also do most people book through the cruise line? Anyone who booked excursions themselves how did it work out for you? Will also be doing the land portion before the cruise. stops will be Anchorage, Denali, Talkeetna, and Alyeska would love good restaurant and bar options as well as excursion options in these towns.

 

Thanks so much!

We are on this cruise also. Come over to the roll call, found here:

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2325073&page=22

for more information on what some of us are doing. This will be our 3rd cruise to Alaska, the 1st 2 times we did the land portion thru Celebrity. This time we are doing it on our own. We mostly book Alaska excursions on our own, pricing is not that much different from booking through the cruise line but groups are often smaller.

The Brew House in Anchorage is a good choice for meals/bar. In Talkeetna we ate at the hotel both times we were there. It's a small town with a very limited choice of dining/bars in town. I can't remember the name of the restaurant we ate at in Denali but it was down the hill from our hotel, right at the corner and the hotel ran a shuttle. Denali does not have many choices either.

If you are doing the land portion thru Celebrity the tour guide will have information on excursions you can book at each stop on the tour. It's hard to pre book because you don't have the schedule of included tours or of the arrival, leaving time.

We booked all our own excursions. In Icy Strait Point, the Celebrity whale watch was jammed full of people. They were squished along the decks and those several rows back from the railing were holding their phones over their heads Hoping to get a picture of a whale. The excursion was much shorter than the one we booked through Glacier Winds and we had six clients on the boat.

A floatplane trip is incredible and can be found at most ports. We used Island Wings in Ketchikan.

In Juneau we did the independent small boat trip through Tracy Arm Fjord with Adventure Bound, but you have to have a long post day to do that one.

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