Category: Alaska Cruises
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Repositioning Cruises: Which Cruise Lines Offer Them?
Repositioning cruises serve a crucial function in the global cruise industry, but they are often overlooked. This is at least partially understandable, given that only certain people can realistically take repositioning cruises, and also that cruise lines often don’t explicitly advertise these voyages as “repositioning cruises.” This latter point is important, as it can cause people to operate on the mistaken assumption that not many cruise lines actually offer repositioning cruises. In fact, almost all the major cruise lines, and a number of smaller cruise lines as well, operate repositioning cruises. They have to relocate their ships somehow, and they may as well transport their vessels with lots of paying customers on board. Read more […] -
Repositioning Cruises: What Kinds of Discounts and Deals are Available?
Having explained the basics of repositioning cruises and described the sort of people who can take transitional cruises (as repositioning cruises are sometimes known), we figured we should now delve into the specific types of cruises you can take. After all, even if you gathered that you like the idea of repositioning cruises and have determined you are able to take one after reading these first two articles, this still doesn’t tell you much about what possibilities actually await you when you start looking into taking a repositioning cruise. Where and when exactly can you take a repositioning cruise? What kinds of deals or discounts can you get by taking a repositioning cruise? To these and similar questions we now turn our attention. Read more […] -
Cheap Alaska Cruises
Cruises to Alaska are extremely popular, as are cheap cruises, so it comes as no surprise that cheap Alaska cruises (or, if we’re to be perfectly grammatical, cheap Alaskan cruises) are in high demand. Fortunately, cheap cruises to Alaska are not particularly hard to come by. Indeed, since there are so many Alaskan cruises each year, finding a cheap cruise to Alaska is actually one of the easier cruise deals to secure. Below we’ll explain the basics of finding a cheap cruise to Alaska, covering general advice about finding cheap cruises and how this advice specifically relates to Alaskan cruises. Read more […] -
Alaska Marine Highway System
Plenty has been written about cruises to Alaska. Alaskan cruises are, after all, one of the most popular cruise vacations available, and all of the major cruise lines (and many of the smaller ones) offer them throughout the year. But these types of cruises – the ones offered by cruise lines that most people mean by the words “Alaskan cruises” – are leisure cruises, taken almost exclusively for vacations. However, there is another type of cruise in Alaska (if it can even be called a cruise) that is run by the Alaska Marine Highway System, operated by the government of the state of Alaska. Being a governmental service, the Alaska Marine Highway System serves a utilitarian function – they do not offer cruises for pleasure, but rather cruises for pure transportation purposes. It’s a highly unique system that really only makes sense in a state like Alaska, and since it is so unique, we thought our readers (cruise enthusiasts that they are) would like to know a bit about it. So, that said, what is the Alaska Marine Highway System? Read more […] -
How to Book a River Cruise in Alaska
As a follow-up article to our recent overview of Alaskan river cruises, we thought it might be helpful to shed some light on how to book a river cruise in Alaska. If you are interested in booking one of these cruises, you might be wondering if there is anything special about booking an Alaskan river cruise, or if it is basically like booking any other cruise. The answer to this question, like so many others, is “yes and no,” and it is the aim of this article to explain why. Read more […] -
River Cruises in Alaska
On a number of occasions, we’ve written about Alaskan cruises (i.e., cruises to Alaska). We’ve written about the cruise lines that offer Alaskan cruises, why people take Alaskan cruises, how to book an Alaskan cruise, and a few other dimensions of vacations to this ever-popular cruise destination. We have not, however, covered river cruises in Alaska in any depth. What exactly is a river cruise in Alaska? What different types of Alaskan river cruises are out there? Does it even makes sense to call it an Alaskan river cruise? We answer these and similar questions about river cruises in Alaska below. Read more […]
