What Is A Cruisetour? | Alaska Cruisetour | Princess Cruises

hi I'm Kendra and I'm Princess Cruises Alaska expert and today I'm gonna talk to you about my favorite topic Alaska cruise tours what's a cruise tour a cruise tour is a seven-day voyage of the glaciers crews combined with rail travel combined with multiple overnight stays at wilderness lodges in Alaska and why would you take a cruise tour you would take a cruise tour to experience Alaska's top two attractions Glacier Bay National Park and Denali National Park these are the top two attractions that you cannot miss when you visit Alaska so a voyage of the glaciers cruise is a seven-day one-way cruise between Whittier and Vancouver BC and you can choose to do this cruise northbound or southbound so it goes both directions on this cruise you'll go to Juneau Ketchikan Skagway and you'll get to Glacier experiences every cruise gets closer Bay National Park and either college fiord or hubbard glacier and i want to stop here to talk about why Glacier Bay National Park is so important and special so Glacier Bay is a protected national park that is highly regulated and not every Cruise Line gets to go into Glacier Bay and princess is lucky enough to be able to enter laisure Bay and it's a very spectacular day and very special so Glacier Bay has many glaciers in it but you enter the bay and Park Rangers board the ship and they get on board and they give presentations and they really teach you about the wildlife and the in the area and all of the glaciers that you'll be seeing for that day and we even have a Junior Rangers program where kids can take the oath to become a park ranger it's just super cute and a pinnacle the highlight of the day is when the ship pulls up to Margerie glacier and each side of the ship gets to see it because the ship does a little turn 360 turn and hopefully if you're lucky the glacier will calve and you will hear the magical sound of white thunder so we love Glacier Bay at Princess and we think it's a major highlight and we know it's a highlight because it's one of the top attractions for Alaska okay so another part of the cruise to experience is the Train experience and Princess has an exclusive direct to the wilderness rail service that takes you between the ship and one of our Denali area lodges and this experience is in domed rail cars it's a great way to experience the great land because their scenery everywhere it's comfortable you can order a beverage up top or a meal downstairs you can listen to the commentary of a tour guide that shows you all of the sites in the area it's one of our most popular experiences and it really helps to bring Alaska to life so rounding out this cruise to experience is princesses wilderness lodges and these are exclusive to princess they're only operational in the summer to serve our cruise to our guests and we have five wilderness lodges the biggest one is the Denali princess Wilderness Lodge and this is located about a mile outside of the park entrance and it's a hubbub of activities it's very special there we have a lot of great restaurants and land excursions that you can book it's it's right on the river we have our new Fanny Q saloon there which is really fun this is a great base camp for your Denali experience the dolly princess on the other side of the National Park sits the mount mckinley princess wilderness lodge and this actually sits within Denali State Park it's a very special place and it was built with the sole purpose of having a great view of Mount Denali and it does also at this location we have our Animal Planet treehouse that was featured on the hit show treehouse masters so we have a lot of things going on there we have mountain climber talks every day twice a day where you can hear the tale of a mountain climber who's climbed Mount McKinley now called Denali and here are their experiences and they'll they let you play with their gear and show you their pictures from their climb a lot going on at that location we have another Lodge the Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge and this is located on the Kenai River and this is a very popular Lodge it's only 86 rooms each room has its own wood-burning fireplace lots of recreational fish in there and rafting on the river it's really a very special place our fourth Lodge is the Copper River princess wilderness lodge and it's located on the boundary of Wrangell sanitised National Park which is the largest national park in North America and the Copper River princess is again a smaller Lodge it's about eighty-six rooms and it offers a lot of really great excursions like fishing you've heard of the famous Copper River salmon there's a lot of fishing in that area ATVs you can go into the national park it's a really special place our last Lodge is the Fairbanks Princess Riverside Lodge and this sits right on the Chena River and offers a great spot to start or end your Alaska cruise tour so I mentioned that Denali National Park is one of the main reasons why people go to Alaska and it is for good reason Denali National Park is six million acres of spectacular wilderness people go to Denali National Park to see the mountain called Denali or the great one people from all over the world travel to Alaska to try to summit Mount Denali another reason why everyone is so interested in Denali National Park is for wildlife there is an abundance of wildlife in general a National Park and everyone's trying to hit the big five which are bare moose caribou wolves and dall sheep so if you're lucky you'll hit all five princess offers many cruise to her options so I'm gonna try to give you a couple tips to help narrow those down so the first thing to think about is do you want to cruise first into your land after or do you want to do the land portion first and cruise later people tend to want to do the land first and cruise later which is the southbound version if you do the opposite direction the northbound cruising first during the land later there are good deals to be had on those cruise tours so if you're looking for a bargain that might be a good place to start the cruise tour is range from ten nights to 17 nights so there's a lot of variation there so think about how much time you wanted to vote to that if you're interested in doing a Denali National Park tour one of the longer ones that we talked about make sure you book a cruise tour that has two nights at the Denali princess Wilderness Lodge one of the things that princess does better than anybody else is we create this very seamless cruise tour experience we own and operate the lodges the Train the buses the cruise so it's one experience we take care of everything from luggage handling to key cards in your room to booking your dinner reservations it is such a seamless experience and you'll get to see the best of the great land for those of you who are looking for a more immersive Alaska experience a cruise tour could be a great option for you I hope this video has been helpful see you next time

Channel: Princess Cruises

Views: 75,344

Keywords: princess cruises, princess cruise line, princess alaska cruise, princess cruise alaska, alaska cruise, alaska cruise + land, alaska cruise tips, top alaska cruise tips, princess alaska cruise tips, princess wilderness lodge, princess wilderness lodge alaska, princess train travel alaska, cruise deals alaska, book alaska cruise, book alaska cruisetour, book alaska cruise tours, book alaska cruise tour land, denali national park, alaska tour denali national park

Id: bV_8MbCkYrY

Length: 6min 58sec (418 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 10 2020