Luxury Travel
This New Alaskan Cruise Is the One for Your Bucket List
There are wrong ways to cruise Alaska—but Seabourn’s new itineraries are very, very right.
The Aialik Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.
Photographer: Joel Rogers/Getty ImagesIf you think of Alaska as the Last Frontier, you might be surprised to find it overrun by fanny-packing cruisers, all scurrying from one Disneyfied shore excursion to the next. After all, tiny towns such as Ketchikan, Hoonah, and Valdez are welcoming upwards of a million passengers a year—despite having as few as 760 local residents.
Take Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas: It started sailing to Alaska last summer, with a shipboard population that, at 3,835 guests, is about one and a half times the entire population of Seward, one of the state’s largest ports.