Alaska helicopter tours

[mertziek]

We are booked through NCL for one of their “Dogsled & Glacier Adventure by Helicopter” tours.  We are a family of 6 - 4 adults, 2 children.  Does anyone know how many people can go in the helicopter as we would like to be together?  TIA

[7Contraveler]

10 hours ago, mertziek said:

We are booked through NCL for one of their “Dogsled & Glacier Adventure by Helicopter” tours.  We are a family of 6 - 4 adults, 2 children.  Does anyone know how many people can go in the helicopter as we would like to be together?  TIA

We just did the mendenhall glacier helicopter tour last month while on the bliss, we had 6 adults on ours not including the pilot so 7 adults.. its all based on weight of the passengers.  They will have you guys sit in a specific configuration for weight and balance of the helicopter. It was amazing and hope you guys have fun. 

Edited May 20 by 7Contraveler

[mertziek]

7 hours ago, 7Contraveler said:

We just did the mendenhall glacier helicopter tour last month while on the bliss, we had 6 adults on ours not including the pilot so 7 adults.. its all based on weight of the passengers.  They will have you guys sit in a specific configuration for weight and balance of the helicopter. It was amazing and hope you guys have fun. 

Thank you.  I think we will be good with 4 adults and 2 skinny kids.

[wolfie11]

On 5/19/2024 at 5:07 PM, mertziek said:

We are booked through NCL for one of their “Dogsled & Glacier Adventure by Helicopter” tours.  We are a family of 6 - 4 adults, 2 children.  Does anyone know how many people can go in the helicopter as we would like to be together?  TIA

As long as none of the adults weighs over 250lbs you should be fine.

[mertziek]

8 hours ago, wolfie11 said:

As long as none of the adults weighs over 250lbs you should be fine.

We are good.

[BirdTravels]

12 hours ago, mertziek said:

We are good.

 

For your consideration: Watch the weather. One year, we had airtours booked in 3 ports (all float planes). 2 of the 3 cancelled due to weather and we were literally scrambling in the theater (meeting point) to rebook on something else. The weather cancellations were for low ceilings where the clouds were down below the hill tops around the port. 

[mapleleaves]

IIRC, there are only 3 vendors which offer heli tours in Juneau .....Coastal Helicopter, Northern, Temsco.  Check their web sites (FAQ) for details.   

 

[bonvoyagie]

NCL uses Temsco

 

[Jeena]

I just booked a helicopter tour for my son and I in Juneau. 2 seats just became available luckily. Ours was through coastal.