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Port deep-dives, dual-terminal explainers, and the operational reality of how cruise ships actually call at Alaska's harbors.
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Seattle handles 330 cruise calls and 2.1 million passengers in 2026 across two terminals: Pier 91 (Smith Cove) and Pier 66 (Bell Street). They work very differently. Here's how to choose.
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Juneau's tidelands lease for Áak'w Landing was finalized April 2026. Construction starts summer 2027. Opens for the 2028 season. Built by Huna Totem, the Tlingit corporation behind Icy Strait Point.
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Coral Princess docked at Whittier on April 28, 2026 — the first cruise ship of the season — wrapping a 131-day world voyage from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles.
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Ketchikan has two cruise berths — downtown and Ward Cove, seven miles north. Which one your ship calls at materially changes your day, and not always for the better.
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Seward is the second cruise gateway to the Alaska interior — but unlike Whittier, the connection to Anchorage runs through the Kenai Peninsula on one of America's most scenic train rides.
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Skagway was the boomtown gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898. Today its main street is a National Historical Park, and the White Pass railway runs the same route prospectors took 128 years ago.
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The cruise gateway to Anchorage shares its only road with a railroad, fits most of its 200 residents into one Cold-War-era apartment building, and just opened a new dual-berth terminal in 2024.