{"id":7717,"date":"2012-06-27T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/unique-alaska-coast-mountain-tundra-and-backcountry-cruisetours-2\/"},"modified":"2012-06-27T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T06:40:00","slug":"unique-alaska-coast-mountain-tundra-and-backcountry-cruisetours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/06\/unique-alaska-coast-mountain-tundra-and-backcountry-cruisetours-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIQUE ALASKA COAST, MOUNTAIN, TUNDRA AND BACKCOUNTRY CRUISETOURS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-lGB1i_ocXD8\/T-qq8xVjMYI\/AAAAAAAAV-E\/kc5V29jHxRQ\/s1600\/ship%2Bdiamond-princess_resized-750837.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-lGB1i_ocXD8\/T-qq8xVjMYI\/AAAAAAAAV-E\/kc5V29jHxRQ\/s320\/ship%2Bdiamond-princess_resized-750837.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A range of 16 night packages to Alaska with Cruiseco in 2013 are more than just a cruise with a few coach excursions ashore \u2013 these unique &#8220;cruisetours&#8221; include two nights to enjoy all that Vancouver has to offer, a 7 night cruise to Anchorage via three ports and scenic cruising of Glacier Bay National Park and College Fjord, and 7 nights through Alaska&#8217;s mountain and tundra backcountry from Whittier to Fairbanks by coach, rail and riverboat. <\/p>\n<p>And with return Economy Class airfare from Sydney, all meals and entertainment during the week aboard the luxury 116,000 tonne Diamond Princess, two meals daily and all transport during the 7 day Alaska cruisetour, the services of professional naturalists and guides, and taxes and port charges, prices start from just $6,540pp twin share. <\/p>\n<p>Cruiseco has eight of these packages between May 23 and August 29 next year; <\/p>\n<p>For complete itineraries, inclusions and the name of your nearest Cruiseco cruise-specialist travel agent go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruising.com.au\/\">www.cruising.com.au<\/a>. Conditions apply. <\/p>\n<p>HIGHLIGHTS of these unique Cruiseco packages include a transfer on arrival in Vancouver to The Fairmont Hotel for two nights with breakfasts, followed by 7 nights luxury cruising aboard Diamond Princess to Ketchikan (the so-called &#8220;Salmon Capital of the World&#8221; and Alaska&#8217;s totem-pole capital,) State capital Juneau with its spectacular glaciers, and Skagway that was the wild frontier to the 1890s gold-rush. <\/p>\n<p>The week-long cruisetour that follows includes stays at Princess Cruises&#8217; own wilderness lodges and hotels, national parks that abound with fjords and glaciers, wildlife from grizzlies to Dall sheep and all manner of other land and bird life, a Tundra Wilderness Tour into remote backcountry, a ride aboard the famed Alaska Railroad in Princess Cruises&#8217; own glass-canopied private rail carriages, a unique Ice Museum in Fairbanks, and a trip on the Chena River aboard an authentic paddlewheel steamboat evocative of frontier days. <\/p>\n<p>Six breakfasts are included and nightly dinners range from 3-course offerings at famed restaurants to traditional Alaskan salmon bakes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A range of 16 night packages to Alaska with Cruiseco in 2013 are more than just a cruise with a few coach excursions ashore \u2013 these unique &#8220;cruisetours&#8221; include two nights to enjoy all that Vancouver has to offer, a 7 night cruise to Anchorage via three ports and scenic cruising of Glacier Bay National [&hellip;]<\/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-7717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717","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=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}