Northern Vacations

Glacier Bay, Alaska

 

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Margaret Glacier, Glacier Bay Alaska

 

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Includes:

Return airfare from your departure city from chart below to Gustavus, 1 night accommodation at Glacier Bay Lodge (mountain-side room), Glacier Bay 8 hour cruise, transfers, porterage, taxes and fees. transfers.

Description:
USD Cost (Net)
Juneau:
$522
Skagway/Haines:
$797
Additional night:
$233
Glacier Bay cruise-only:
$182
Rates are per person based double occupany.  Single, triple and quad rates also available

 

Glacier Bay National Park Tour
2 days and 1 nights

Visit Alaska’s true Jewell. Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve commands a glacier-crowned, maritime wilderness that stretches northward from Alaska’s inside passage to the Alsek River, encircling a magnificent saltwater bay with 16 tidewater glaciers and 30 alpine glaciers! A mountain-guarded, maritime sanctuary, Glacier Bay National Park thus secures the coastal flank of the largest internationally protected area on earth.

Travel Itinerary:

01 Glacier Bay
Flight from your originating city over the nside Passage to Gustavus. Transfer to Glacier Bay Lodge. Afternoon/evening free for optional activities such as National Park talks, sea kayaking or salt-water fishing. The Fairweather Mountain range stretches15,320 feet into the heavens. As the backdrop for Bartlett Cove, Mt. Fairweather is taller than any peak in the other 49 states. An evening on the deck of the Glacier Bay Lodge overlooking this mountain range will inspire your senses with unsurpassed raw beauty.

02 Glacier Bay - Full day Glacier Bay cruise
Tour travels up the west arm of Glacier Bay to the face of the Margerie and Grand Pacific Glaciers, two towering masses of ice and snow. Rising 250 feet above the waterline and stretching another 100 feet below the water, the ice calving from the Margerie Glacier is an average of 200 years old. The Margerie and Grand Pacific are two of the numerous glaciers that encompass Glacier Bay National Park

Several whale species feed extensively in the bay, including the endangered Humpback whales and the threatened Steller Sea Lion. Thousands of harbor seals breed and nurture their pups on the floating ice in Johns Hopkins Inlet and among the reefs of the Beardslee Islands . Minke and Killer whales as well as harbor and Dall’s porpoises feed in the Park’s productive, near-shore waters. Sea otters are colonizing the bay as well as Park waters in Icy Strait and Cross Sound. 

Many of these marine mammals ply the more turbulent gulf coast waters as well, where they mingle with gray whales and the occasional beluga whale or other cetaceans less common to the region.

Additional Options:

  • Optional 4 hour Whale Watching Tour Add-on: $102 p/p
  • View Room Upgrades: $27/night 
  • From Whitehorse (coach & White Pass RR Summit Tour): $119 p/p

2008 Dates:  

Lodge – May 23 – Sept. 1, 2008 / Tours – May 24 – Sept. 2, 2008