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Embark on Seabourn's 7-day Glaciers & Alaska Inside Passage cruise, departing from Vancouver on June 12, 2026. Explore Ketchikan’s Native heritage, Sitka’s Russian-Tlingit history, and the breathtaking Hubbard Glacier. Discover the wildlife-rich Inian Islands, scenic Icy Strait Point, and charming Haines before concluding in Juneau. Enjoy Seabourn’s signature luxury, expert-led excursions, and stunning Alaskan landscapes throughout this unforgettable journey.
- Seabourn Encore
- 6 nights
- 12th - 19th June 2026
- From £4,799
*Price correct at time of publication 02/04/2025
Itineraries
Day 1 Embarkation
Vancouver / Transit the Seymour Narrows
The Seymour Narrows is a 3-mile/5 km stretch of the Discovery Channel north of Vancouver Island, British Columbia that is notorious for the strength of the tidal currents flowing through it. The average width of the narrows is just 750 meters. During extreme tides, the current through the narrows is subject to severe Venturi effect, resulting in an increased velocity that can reach 15 knots. For much of its modern history, there was an additional hazard in the narrows called Ripple Rock, a shallow obstruction that claimed no fewer than 119 ships and 114 lives. In 1958, after months of tunneling and preparation, Ripple Rock was blown up in the largest commercial, non-nuclear explosion ever recorded in North America. Still, the navigation of Seymour Narrows is dependent on tidal and other conditions, and requires skill and technical accomplishment.
Day 2
Cruising the Queen Charlotte Sound
The Queen Charlotte Sound lies between the Queen Charlotte Strait, which winds between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland in the south, and Hecate Strait, which is northward, adjacent to the Haida Gwaii Islands off the Pacific coast of British Columbia. It is a broad reach in the long shipping route called the Inside Passage threading the myriad islands stretching from Washington’s Puget Sound to Alaska.
Day 3
Ketchikan, Alaska, US Transit Snow Pass, Transit Decision Passage
In the passage between Sumner Strait and Clarence Strait in Southeast Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago, midway between Price of Wales Island on the west and Zarembo Island on the east, is a small cluster of islands with a picturesque passageway between them called Snow Pass. It makes a scenic up-close route for your Seabourn ship during the transit.
Day 4
Sitka, Alaska
Day 5
Cruising Yakutat Bay, Hubbard Glacier
Yakutat Bay is 18 miles wide at its entry, and cuts from the Gulf of Alaska into Disenchantment Bay, the entryway to the huge Hubbard Glacier, North America’s largest tidewater glacier. As the bay narrows and the shorelines draw closer, the 400-foot face of the glacier exerts a luminous, ghostly presence, often from as much as 30 miles away. More and more floating ice dimples the surface of the water, and seals bob up and disappear again. The chilled air from the glacier flows in a downdraft of cold that gives rise to mists and gray clouds, through which the vivid blue of the ice wall shimmers. It is an impressive sight of nature’s immense raw workplace, shaping the earth itself as part of an endless cycle of water from the sea evaporating to the sky, falling as snow on the heights and inching over centuries back again to the sea.
Day 6
Inian Islands, Alaska, US, Icy Strait Point, Alaska, US
As the gatekeepers to the northern entrance of the fabled Inside Passage, the remote Inian Islands stand between Cross Sound and Icy Strait, exposed to the high energy seas of the Pacific Ocean. Tidal currents surging through the narrow channels separating the islands can be severe. Nicknames like ‘The Laundry Chute’ justify their notorious reputations.
Day 7
Haines, Alaska, US, Cruising Lynn Canal
Icy Strait Point is a unique community on Chichagof Island near the entry to Glacier Bay National Park. It was created and is owned by a corporation of over 1300 Native Americans of various local Tlingit tribes, for the purpose of offering visitors an enjoyable, educational experience of Alaska’s native cultures, as well as the human and natural history of the region. Your tender will dock at the historic 1912 salmon canning facility, which today is a museum.
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- Complimentary premium spirits and fine wines available on board at all times.
- Complimentary caviar, an extra indulgence offered throughout your voyage.
- Welcome Champagne and complimentary in-suite bar stocked with your preferences.
- Complimentary Wi-Fi packages with unlimited minutes powered by SpaceX’s Starlink.
Free Helly Hansen jacket for each traveller in partnership with Trends Gibraltar.
Book by 30th April and enjoy up to $2,000USD in shipboard credit per suite and a Veranda Suite upgrade. Find the moments you live for and discover hidden gem ports in less traveled destinations, making the adventure all the more unique.
This exceptional Sail of the Year offer is only available until April 30th, 2025, so book yours today.
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From £4,799 per person.
Claim your free Helly Hansen jacket for each traveller in partnership with Trends Gibraltar and book by 30th April to enjoy up to $2,000USD in shipboard credit per suite and a Veranda Suite upgrade. Find the moments you live for and discover hidden gem ports in less traveled destinations, making the adventure all the more unique.
This exceptional Sail of the Year offer is only available until April 30th, 2025, so book yours today.
