Sorta Urgent Alaska Help needed (part 2)

We were all set to book tomorrow with a cruise on hold but now we have some questions… Some of my group are asking if princess has a cruise with a four-day land tour (2 day Denali) that will also stop in Sitka or icy Strait Point. A few of our cruisers are wanting to do the zip line in Icy Strait Point. Please help... Trying to figure this out tonight .

Interesting question! Icy Strait Point appears to be included on northbound cruises on the Island Princess in 2018. So as long as you are willing to do your land tour after the cruise and are OK sailing on the Island, it should work.

Are you booking for this summer or next?

Island Princess northbound Vancouver-Whittier cruises in 2018 will stop at Icy Strait Point instead of the current Ketchikan. I'll leave the remaining research (whether any available cruisetours meet your criteria) to you.

Only Princess calls in Sitka are on a handful of Grand Princess round trip San Francisco sailings, presumably due to a regular port on that itinerary being overbooked for that week. So no associated land portion with a Sitka stop.

Do your own land tour. It is usually cheaper if you have time to do research. That way you can do whatever you want to do and are not limited by anything other than your imagination, time and money :)

Here's the link to the Alaska brochure as it might be easier for you to narrow down acceptable tours on the Island than searching on line: https://book.princess.com/images/cc/brochure/downloads/Princess-Alaska-2018.pdf

Love Sitka. Too bad it's not on more itineraries. :(

Zip line junkies should check out the nearby Whistler Sasquatch when in Vancouver for a few days.

https://whistler.ziptrek.com/tours/sasquatch/

Interesting question! Icy Strait Point appears to be included on northbound cruises on the Island Princess in 2018. So as long as you are willing to do your land tour after the cruise and are OK sailing on the Island, it should work.

Thank you. That's exactly what I saw. I was hoping I was missing something because we have one couple doing the land tour and they really wanted to do the tour portion first.

Love Sitka. Too bad it's not on more itineraries. :(

Have you been to icy Strait? I wonder what it's like there.

Interesting question! Icy Strait Point appears to be included on northbound cruises on the Island Princess in 2018. So as long as you are willing to do your land tour after the cruise and are OK sailing on the Island, it should work.

I was looking forward to cruising on the Star or Golden Princess but I will be fine with anything as long as what everybody wants works out. I have never cruised on the Island Princess before so I'm not sure if I would like it or not. Have you tried the ship before?

Here's the link to the Alaska brochure as it might be easier for you to narrow down acceptable tours on the Island than searching on line: https://book.princess.com/images/cc/brochure/downloads/Princess-Alaska-2018.pdf

Wow! That's awesome! Thank you so much. I did not know that this even existed.

Have you been to icy Strait? I wonder what it's like there.

It's super small with not much there, however they have the most awesome small boat whale watches. The best, IMHO. Love Floyd fishes.

Way better than Harv and Marv in Juneau.

It's super small with not much there, however they have the most awesome small boat whale watches. The best, IMHO. Love Floyd fishes.

Way better than Harv and Marv in Juneau.

Thank you! Do you book the small whale watching trips from the cruiseline or an independent?

Love Sitka. Too bad it's not on more itineraries. :(

Me too! I'd really love to go back there. Beautiful place.

Last summer our 10 day Alaska out of San Francisco stopped at Icy Strait. We did a private tour to see bears. Lots of fun but required patience. Guide knew where the bears appear and we waited quite a while for them to show up, and they did.

I saw the Zip line, and it appeared to be small. Since we didn't do it, really can't comment on it.

The port was small, with a couple of shops inside a building. The place is not commercialized like the other ports with all those jewelry stores, not a single one there. It was a nice change.

Last summer our 10 day Alaska out of San Francisco stopped at Icy Strait.

I saw the Zip line, and it appeared to be small. Since we didn't do it, really can't comment on it.

As an FYI - The zip line at Icy Straight Point is the longest one in the world.

It's super small with not much there, however they have the most awesome small boat whale watches. The best, IMHO. Love Floyd fishes.

Way better than Harv and Marv in Juneau.

Independent. There are more than one to pick from. Around 160 bucks pp and worth every penny. Only 6 to a boat.

As an FYI - The zip line at Icy Straight Point is the longest one in the world.

Yes that's pretty small. LOL

As an FYI - The zip line at Icy Straight Point is the longest one in the world.

Yes, I've done it.

A long drive up a mountain and done in 60 seconds.

Yes that's pretty small. LOL

A small island with tall mountains. ;p

Someone posted the zip line was longest in the world.Hard to believe in such a tiny place where ships hardly ever show up.(and only in the summer months.

Then Silly Jilly who actually did it said it took 60 seconds. I go with Jilly's opinion.

Someone posted the zip line was longest in the world.Hard to believe in such a tiny place where ships hardly ever show up.(and only in the summer months.

Then Silly Jilly who actually did it said it took 60 seconds. I go with Jilly's opinion.

It is long and takes a long time to get to the top through winding mountain roads, but it's a lot quicker going straight down. :D

A walk to town where there is nothing to see takes about 15 min.

I've done the whale watch twice and it was awesome both times!

Well the zip line will have to wait until the next time. It was finally decided and we booked the Anchorage/Whittier to Vancouver southbound. I do have to add that I'm kind of glad that I do not get to watch my friend do that zip line [emoji33]

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Thank you all so much for your help!

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