JeffNK

Thank you martincath, very informative.

Yes again thank you all.  Upon review I think the suggestion to concentrate on the cruise portion and do the Anchorage/Denali/Fairbanks et al at a later time is the better one.  

I have been consulting with a travel agent re this albeit an online oriented one.  ecruising (Australia).  I gave up relying on a travel agent to do things I can do myself quite a few holidays ago.  (even if my daughter is a wholesale agent in a major company).

Viking perhaps outside the budget.  >$AU7000 for a 11 day cruise compared with approx $AU9600 for a 21 day trip including flights ex Australia and accommodation in Calgary, Banff, Kamloops, Vancouver, Rocky Mountaineer one dayer and a 14 day cruise.

My philosophy over the last 11 years of touring and road tripping in Europe, the UK and US has been to go to the most distant and less accessible places first needs to have a rest this time.  (eg I went to Shetland before I went to Edinburgh, I road tripped for over 10 days in Maine but am still to visit Bangor or Augusta.)

Jeff

Thanks for the responses.  I will check out all hints and repost when I am able.

(I know where Fairbanks is by the way.  I was the beneficiary of a late 50's/early 60's Australian primary school education.  I didn't mean to indicate that I expected to cruise to Fairbanks.)

Cheers, Jeff

Hello forum members.

My partner and I have been looking for a cruise on the Alaskan Coast (Vancouver/Inside Passage to Anchorage and perhaps land content to Denali and Fairbanks).  We received a package offer in email "Rail Sail" which includes a Rocky Mountaineer land component and the Holland America "Great Alaskan Explorer" 14 day cruise which looks good.  Then I decided I would like to have an add on or add in trip to Denali and Fairbanks.  To this end we had a look at some Princess cruises.  However I am keen on the ports/cruise itinerary of the Holland America cruise specifically  the port stop in Valdez.  But this stop does not appear in any Princess cruise which includes both Anchorage city and Fairbanks.

Do any forum members know of any cruises which cover most of these bases.  Doesn't have to be a round trip.  A one way trip eg Vancouver to Fairbanks or reverse would be fine.  I've looked extensively but haven't found anything which quite matches.

Thanks for any help.

Jeff