{"id":17627,"date":"2014-10-13T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/voyage-of-the-glaciers-a-spectacular-canadian-and-alaskan-holiday-at-an-attractive-price\/"},"modified":"2014-10-13T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T09:48:00","slug":"voyage-of-the-glaciers-a-spectacular-canadian-and-alaskan-holiday-at-an-attractive-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/10\/voyage-of-the-glaciers-a-spectacular-canadian-and-alaskan-holiday-at-an-attractive-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyage of the Glaciers \u2013 a spectacular\u00a0Canadian and Alaskan holiday at an attractive price"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take a Canadian Icefield Discovery tour from Calgary to Vancouver, including VIA Rail \u2013 the sort of trip that\u2019s so spectacular it takes your breath away. Add a stay in the gracious city of Vancouver and a seven-night\u00a0<\/span>Grand Princess<\/em>\u00a0Alaska cruise from Vancouver to Whittier.<\/span><\/span>

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That\u2019s the essence of \u2018Voyage of the Glaciers\u2019, a memorable new 17-day fly-cruise-and-tour holiday from Worldwide Cruise Centres (worldwidecruisecentres.com.au).<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2018Voyage of the Glaciers\u2019 includes flights to and from Australia. The holiday begins with a flight from Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne to Calgary, Gateway to the Rockies, on 16 May 2015, followed by transfer to the Calgary International Hotel for a night\u2019s rest to prepare for adventures ahead.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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The holiday, packed with sights and excitement, costs from A$5199 twin share per person if booked by the end of October 2014. The deal is valid until that date or until it books out. Making value even better, a bonus US$60 in onboard credit applies per twin cabin on the\u00a0Grand Princess<\/em>\u00a0cruise.<\/span><\/div>\n

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From Calgary, you\u2019ll set out on a four-night\/five-day Icefield Discovery Tour to Vancouver. It includes a two-night stay at the Banff Caribou Lodge, a night at the Deer Lodge Lake Louise, a night at the Sawridge Inn Jasper, and a night in a Private Sleeper Bedroom aboard VIA Rail Sleeper Touring service from Jasper to Vancouver.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Along the way you\u2019ll travel by coach along the Icefields Parkway, one of North America\u2019s most scenic highways. See enormous Columbia Icefield and ride the Ice Explorer on the Athabasca Glacier. Stop at the award-winning Glacier Skywalk to experience a glass-floored observation platform poised 280 metres over glacier-formed valleys and waterfalls.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The terrain around Bow and Peyto Lakes, the Crowfoot Glacier and the Athabasca Falls is renowned for sightings of bear, elk, moose and mountain sheep \u2013 so keep your camera ready.<\/span><\/div>\n

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After a relaxing morning in the mountain town of Jasper, board the VIA Rail train, in Sleeper Touring Class, to Vancouver. Traverse Jasper National Park and pass the sprawling grandeur of Mount Robson, then follow the mighty Thompson River all the way to the Fraser Valley and the coastal city of Vancouver.<\/span><\/div>\n

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In the evening, train attendants transform your quarters into a cosy bedroom. Prior to dinner, enjoy complimentary beverages and hors d\u2019oeuvres in the Dome to relish the joy of train travel with views of panoramic scenery.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Arriving in Vancouver, you\u2019ll spend two nights at the Rosedale on Robson Hotel in the heart of Vancouver\u2019s entertainment district.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Now its time to board\u00a0Grand Princess<\/em>\u00a0for a seven-night Alaska cruise. All shipboard main meals (excluding specialty restaurants) are included. The ship offers innovative touches like Movies Under the Stars, an Italian-inspired Piazza \u2013 plus yoga lessons, pools and spas \u2013 but most of the excitement happens ashore.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Highlights include phenomenal Glacier Bay, where 16 massive tidewater glaciers plunge into icy fjords. On land, brown, black forage for food along gravel beaches. Occasionally the rare glacier bear (with blue-tinted fur) is sighted.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Grand Princess<\/em>\u00a0calls enters College Fjord (five tidewater glaciers) and visits the historic town of Juneau at the foot of grand mountain peaks, the Klondike gold-rush settlement of Skagway and Ketchikan with its totem poles,Arriving at Whittier\u00a0 on Western Prince William Sound, you\u2019ll transfer to Anchorage Airport and fly back to Australia at the end of a fabulous holiday.<\/span><\/div>\n

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To find your local Worldwide Cruise Centres agent go to:<\/strong>www.worldwidecruisecentres.com.au<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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Take a Canadian Icefield Discovery tour from Calgary to Vancouver, including VIA Rail \u2013 the sort of trip that\u2019s so spectacular it takes your breath away. Add a stay in the gracious city of Vancouver and a seven-night\u00a0Grand Princess\u00a0Alaska cruise from Vancouver to Whittier. That\u2019s the essence of \u2018Voyage of the Glaciers\u2019, a memorable new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}