I'm trying to decide between four cruises for our first Alaskan cruise. Two are Vancouver roundtrips, the other two are Vancouver northbound one-ways. I checked airfare from our home to Alaska, and it's actually about the same whether we fly roundtrip to Vancouver ($741) or one way to Vancouver and then one way home from Anchorage ($607), so the one-way isn't a big deal. We will spend 2-3 days in Seattle before we depart (or after, if we return to Vancouver, perhaps) because we enjoy that city,