June & July Excursions ?s For Encore & Bliss

[mlbcruiser]

If you are sailing on the Encore or the Bliss, from mid June to mid July, are you finding most of the shore, excursions, especially the best ones, are already booked? I’m guessing they likely are. Family members about to book a cruise to Alaska on another line, but the excursions are said to already be sold out. So before they finalize, just wanted to check and see what I can find out. Thanks for any helpful info. (For the record, most independent operators are also filled.)

[www3traveler]

I am not surprised.  With several new cruise ship companies sailing this Alaskan season, everywhere should be very crowded.  You might to able to find people at the various piers selling excursions.

[mlbcruiser]

Thanks for replying. I know that’s true and many, many ports, but fear Alaska might be different because it’s not as highly populated in the small port towns as many other places we visited. Dd needs to decide  if it might be better to skip an Alaskan cruise this year and shoot for some other year.

[mapleleaves]

Not sure which ports you are visiting, but each town has a visitor information website with lots of info on things to do, vendors, DIY, walking tours, and even a visitor guide to download.  Just google the town's name followed by visitor information. 

ie googling 'Ketchikan visitor information' provides these 2 sites:

Visit Ketchikan Alaska - Things To Do (visit-ketchikan.com)

 

Experience Ketchikan Alaska, the salmon capital of the world

 

Have you looked at the Alaska forum of cruisecritic?

Edited March 20, 2023 by mapleleaves

[mlbcruiser]

FaceTime looked at some of those already, but thank you. I’m sure we will find something. Thanks!