Destinations
Where cruises from Vancouver actually go
Most cruises from Vancouver go to Alaska between April and September: seven-night round trips up the Inside Passage, and one-way trips north to Seward and Whittier. The Alaska cards below are split by the glacier each cruise visits, because that is the clearest difference between routes. In spring and autumn the ships move, so 342 sailings are one-way: down the coast to California, out to Hawaii, across to Japan or through the Panama Canal. The counts on each card come straight from the schedule.
Glacier Bay
Holland America and Princess run nearly all of these, with some Norwegian and Seabourn sailings. Most are seven nights: round trips up the Inside Passage to Ketchikan, Juneau and Skagway with a day in Glacier Bay National Park, or one-way trips north that add College Fjord or Hubbard Glacier and end at Whittier, the port for Anchorage. The 14-night round trips go both ways. They sail from April to September.
323 sailings · 7 to 18 nights · from $631
Hubbard Glacier
Mostly seven-night one-way trips from Vancouver to Seward, on Celebrity, Royal Caribbean, Viking, Silversea, Explora Journeys and others, with Ketchikan, Juneau, Icy Strait Point or Sitka on the way and a day of scenic cruising at Hubbard Glacier before Seward. There are some ten-night trips and a few round trips too. May to September.
136 sailings · 7 to 21 nights · from $674
Other Alaska
Alaska cruises whose pages name none of the four big glacier days. Disney's Alaska trips list a day of glacier viewing without saying where. Regent and Seabourn run round trips and one-way trips to Juneau, Whittier and Seattle, and a few other lines add the rest. Ketchikan, Skagway and Juneau are the usual calls.
89 sailings · 4 to 11 nights · from $419
Endicott Arm and Dawes Glacier
Seven-night round trips, most of them on Princess, Celebrity and Royal Caribbean, calling at Ketchikan, Juneau and usually Skagway, with a day of scenic cruising up Endicott Arm towards Dawes Glacier. They leave most weeks from May to September.
79 sailings · 7 to 11 nights · from $749
Tracy Arm
Royal Caribbean round trips and Silversea and Seabourn sailings, some of them one-way to Seward, with a day sailing up Tracy Arm fjord. Every one calls at Juneau, and most at Ketchikan. June to August, with a few in May and September.
40 sailings · 6 to 14 nights · from $653
Pacific coast
One-way trips south along the coast, most of them in September and October and a few in April and May. The short ones run to Seattle, Los Angeles or San Diego, some by way of Astoria, San Francisco or Avalon on Catalina Island. A few longer ones start with a week in Alaska and end in California.
33 sailings · 1 to 16 nights · from $109
Japan and Asia
Long one-way voyages across the North Pacific to Tokyo, Yokohama or Hong Kong, almost all in September, on Viking, Seabourn, Silversea, Regent, Explora Journeys, Oceania and Celebrity. Most start with Alaska, Ketchikan, Sitka and Kodiak among the calls, then cross to northern Japan.
28 sailings · 14 to 36 nights · from $1,357
Hawaii
Round trips of 16 and 17 nights that cross to the islands and back, one-way trips that end in Honolulu, and a few longer one-way voyages that go on from the islands to California or Mexico. They sail in spring and from September to November. Hilo, Kona, Kauai and Maui are the usual calls.
12 sailings · 9 to 28 nights · from $905
Panama Canal
Princess and Holland America voyages through the canal in September and October, down the coast by way of California, Mexico and Central America, ending in Fort Lauderdale, Port Canaveral or New York.
5 sailings · 20 to 23 nights · from $2,068
South Pacific
Royal Princess's long voyage south in September 2027, by way of Los Angeles, Hawaii, Tahiti and Moorea, ending in Auckland or, a week later, in Sydney.
2 sailings · 24 to 31 nights · from $2,609
South America
Nieuw Amsterdam's voyage down the Pacific side of the Americas in October 2027: California, Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, Peru and Chile, ending at San Antonio in Chile or carrying on by way of the Chilean fjords and the Falklands to Buenos Aires.
2 sailings · 26 to 41 nights · from $3,409
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