Alaskan Wilderness – Juneau & Glacier Bay

About this cruise

If you want the classic cruise without a massive time commitment, this is a strong option. 7 nights from Seattle on May 31, 2026, visiting Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay, Ketchikan and Victoria. There's a stretch of back-to-back port days, so those days are busy, but the sea days around them give you time to recharge. Glaciers calving into the water, bald eagles overhead, and air that smells like pine. It's a different kind of cruise. Most ports give you about 8 hours, so you can do more than just tick off the main sights. As for the ship itself, There are 20 restaurants on Norwegian Encore, so you'd need to double up a few evenings to try them all in 7 nights. A spring departure helps too: decent weather and a calmer feel at each port. You start in Seattle and come back with stories from United States and Canada.