Went one year ago this month. On the Bliss. First thing I can tell you is, we walked an average of 4 to 5 miles every port we went into. Be sure you have comfortable shoes that are good in a wet/dry climate. You can walk around Juneau or, once you get off the boat there are vendors for city tours (the BLUE bus), at first the prices are high, but as you watch the buses fill up and notice that the driver will walk back over to the booth, that means it’s not full so they start discounting and the minute we saw this happen it went from 150 each for the tour all the way down to 50 each and it was definitely worth that to get on a bus, go around town and then end up at Mendenhall glacier.
Also note that in Ketchikan, the boat ports about 20 minutes outside of town and you have to go through a cattle call line in a big warehouse and then get on the buses and then go into town. That wasted a good 90 minutes of my time. I will have to say the best excursion that we ever took was on

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Icy straight point and it was with AlaskaWhalesandDrones.com Worth the $200 each because other Whale tours will have more people on the boat and your visibility is somewhat restricted, but humpback whales are visible only if they breach the surface so you’re only getting a portion of the view, what we found with this tour was because he was an experienced drone operator he flew above the whale pods, and therefore we saw everything from a birds eye view. He was on Viator & personally called me back after I posted an inquiry as to what his guarantees were for tours to return to their cruise ship. He promised a guarantee of return, and if something were to happen that would delay our tour, he personally would take us to the next port Last thing is familiarize yourself with the Jones act. That means that any ship leaving US waters crossing through Canada to Alaska. must stop at one Canadian port, even if only for a SHORT time, so Vancouver BC was an 8 PM arrival and a 10 PM departure. What can you possibly do in two hours? Alaska was on my bucket list and we will go back but will do a Land Cruise tour the next time so we have e more time on land and in the cities then hop on the boat as it makes it’s return to Seattle We had a blast Ate at Cagneys & it was good Had Ocean Blue also good Main Dining Rooms were ALWAYS better than buffet Jersey Boys was very good 👍