Cruise Honeymoon to Alaska
For those that want the added romance and excitement mingled in with breathtaking scenery while on honeymoon Alaska can be the place you are looking for and what better way to take in a spectacular view of a pod of humpback whales the glimmering glaciers and surrounding coastline of one of America’s last great true frontiers while spending your honeymoon on a cruise.
This unspoiled part of the World is home to exotice wildlife, towering mountains, glaciers and an abundance of forests with scenic waterfalls and lakes that will amaze your eyes and take your breath away.
To pick up your cruise there are four top ports you can choose from and if you are lucky to spend time in any of them for a day or two, listed below is a small sample of what is on offer.
Picking Up Your Alasks Cruise Liner
Vancouver. This scenic region has an array of exquisite galleries and museums with outstanding surrounding areas and is a delight to visit during any time of the year.
- Grouse Mountain is one of Vancouvers highlights where you can take the Skyrise to the summit of the 4,000 mountain.
- Capilano Suspension Bridge is world renowned and well worth taking the time to cross over.
Seattle. A town that is unfortunatly well known for its bad weather and traffic jams. On a good day it is the ideal place to take walks among the abundance of greenery in and around the many newly build shops and restaurants that have being bringing back the tourists.
- The Space Needle is one of the city’s most recognisable landmarks where you can see a new view every 10 seconds as the observation deck turns. From the snow capped Mountain Ranier above to the Sparkling water of Lake Union.
- The Waterfront is a mile and a half of piers, restaurants, shops and attractions.
- The Ominimax 70mm theatre can boast of combining one of the worlds largest film projectors with one of the largest film formats. You can experience and feel the power of a volcanic eruption, soar through space or dive with sea creatures. This is classed as one of the worlds truly wonderful and unparelleled cinematic experiences.
Seward acts as a gateway to the Kenai Peninsula and the rest of Alaska. It is one of the oldest cities in Alaska dating back to 1793 when the then governor of Russia landed and named Resurrection Bay. Tourism has exploded in this remote location and offers some outsanding fishing, hiking and kayaking opportunities.
- Kenai Fjords National Park has an abundance of wildlife and a multitude of breathtaking landscapes. Within this land of constant change you can see wild bears, whales and ice worms and earthquakes that are entwined with ocean stormes which are very much the architects. At the very tip of the Paninsula the ice age still lingers.
- Chugah National Forest can be likened to the same size as Massachusetts and Rhodes Island combined. Only 500 miles south of the Arctic Circle this forest is a land of moving rocks and ice with a background of mountains, lakes and rivers.
Whittier was first established as a strategic military facility during the first world war and has been used mainly for freight transfers during marine activities.
The 2.5 mile tunnel build in 1941 was once the largest in the world and since June 1943 it enables a link line with the Alaskan outpost by sea or land. It is still the longest vehicle tunnel in North America. With surrounding snowcapped mountains the town is nestled at the base with views of hanging glaciers.
- Salmon fishing and berry picking is in abundance during the summer months.
- Glacier and fishing cruises are also on offer.
Different Alaska Cruise Trips
With choices of Inside Passage cruise or Gulf of Alaskan cruises offering many ports of calls the hardest part of your honeymoon cruise may well be which one to go on.
The Inside Passage Cruise has most of the ships sailing a round trip from Vancouver to Seattle which is considered to be the traditional way to cruise this fabulous country. You will take a route through glacier country going as far north as Juneau or Skagway.
Gulf of Alaska Cruise travels from Vancouver through the Inside Passage and up to Seward/Anchorage giving this cruise a much wider cover of territory and making it one of the more expensive trips.
Your Alaska cruise and port calls can give you such experiences as visiting and seeing native American art and culture, Russian heritage, bald eagles, sea creatures, snow capped peaked mountains and unspoilt frontiers, to name a few.
Cruises in Alaska has a season that last from May right through until September with the least expensive during May and September. The cruises have a trip length of between seven to twelve days.
Twenty three hours of daylight can be experiences during June in Alaska
The Canadian Rockies, Denali National Park and the Yukon gold rush country are high on the list for almost half the passengers that combine a land tour with their cruise and if you have time and money to spare why not extend your honeymoon and travel across to visit the spectacular Niagara Falls and Toronto.
