Holiday Overview
Experience two awe-inspiring trips on the one holiday! See grizzly bears up close in their native habitat as you enjoy the hospitality at the famous Knight Inlet Lodge. Knight Inlet is a 100km long fjord carved by glaciers in the coastal mountains, the floating lodge is tucked into Glendale Cove and only reached by floatplane transfer. Following this terrific wildlife experience take an awe-inspiring 7 night Alaska Cruise with Holland America Line. Sail along the Inside Passage, travel to the best places for viewing wildlife and experience popular ports such as Juneau, Skagway and Ketchikan.
A definite "bucket list" holiday with memories that will remain with you for ever.
Grizzlies and Alaska Cruise includes:
- All flights
- 7 night Holland America Line Alaska Cruise (meals and entertainment included)
- 4 Nights Accommodation in Vancouver
- Transfers (Including float plane transfer to Knight Inlet)
- 1 night Accommodation in Campbell River
- 2 nights at Knight Inlet Lodge with meals and bear viewing excursions included
- Vancouver Hop on Hop off Sightseeing Tour
- Ask about upgrading to Azamara or Regent of Seven Seas cruises
Day 1 - Fly UK to Vancouver
On arrival at Vancouver airport make your way to your downtown hotel for a 2 night stay.
Featured accommodation
Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver
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Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
Day 2 - Vancouver Sightseeing Tour
Enjoy taking in Vancouver's scenery and sights at your leisure today with your Hop on Hop off Sightseeing pass.
Featured accommodation
Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver
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Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
Unmissable Experiences
Vancouver Experiences
Day 3 - Fly Vancouver to Campbell River
Today transfer from your hotel to the airport, where you fly to Campbell River for an overnight stay.
Featured accommodation
Comfort Inn Campbell River
Day 4 - Float plane transfer to Knight Inlet
Today we take the float plane transfer to the superb Knight Inlet Lodge for a 2 night stay with grizzly bear watching and so much more...
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Knight Inlet Lodge
Day 5 - Enjoy Knight Inlet
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Knight Inlet Lodge
Day 6 - Knight Inlet to Vancouver
Today we say our goodbye's to all at Knight Inlet as we head back to the cosmopolitan city of Vancouver. Transfer from Vancouver South Terminal to your downtown hotel.
Featured accommodation
Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver
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Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
Day 7 - Enjoy Vancouver
Day at leisure to enjoy more of Vancouver's stunning waterfront location.
Featured accommodation
Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver
Enhance your experience
Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
Day 8 - Board your Alaska cruise
Transfer from your hotel to Canada Place where you will embark one of Holland America Line ship's for an awe-inspiring 7 night Alaska Cruise.
Day 9 - Cruise the Inside Passage
Today cruise one of the most scenic sea-lanes in the world - the Inside Passage - where ships can sail close to steep mountain walls, giving magnificent views of the unbelievable scenery from forests to evocative towns.
Unmissable Experiences
Inside Passage
Day 10 - Tracy Arm / Juneau
The narrow Tracy Arm Fjord twists is way through the Tongass National Forest, surrounded by 300 foot high granite walls! The melting snowcaps create waterfalls which dot the shoreline, along with trees growing at odd angles from the rocky outcroppings. Catch a glimpse of the varied wildlife that make their home in and around the fjord’s icy waters, including black & brown bears, wolves, deer, moose, seals and whales At the end of the Fjord, view the dramatic Sawyer glaciers which are framed by the mountains.
Juneau, the capital of Alaska, has an air of mystique – a town you cannot reach by road, you need to fly or come by sea! Juneau delights with an abundance of water, forests and mountains.Situated between the Coast Mountains and the Gastineau Channel, Juneau offers a lot of variety, with the immense Mendenhall Glacier and the Juneau Icefields at its back door and the Tongass National Forest stretching out to the northeast. Juneau offers a variety of activities from shopping downtown to dogsledging, hiking, whale-watching and so much more.
Unmissable Experiences
Tracy Arm
Day 11 - Skagway
Skagway was the gateway to the Klondike gold rush in 1898 and the glory days still resound through the town. Stroll through Skagway and browse the restored buildings and wooden boardwalks at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park or take a ride on the White Pass & Yukon narrow-guage railway and finish up in the Red Onion Saloon!
Unmissable Experiences
Skagway
Day 12 - Glacier Bay
Glacier Bay National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that protects a unique ecosystem of plants and animals living in concert with an ever-changing glacial landscape. It has more actively calving tidewater glaciers than any place else in the world. Watch as monumental chunks of ice split off a glacier and thunder into the sea - the impact sending water hundreds of feet into the air. Hold your breath, catch the moment on film. Then wait for it all to happen again. As it always does….
Unmissable Experiences
Glacier Bay
Day 13 - Ketchikan
With shops and houses built out over the water, Ketchikan clings to the shoreline of the Tongass Narrows. The stairways are weathered and the vibe is cheerful in the town that calls itself the Salmon Capital of the World. Besides the main attractions – Creek Street, the Tongass Historical Museum, Totem Bight State Park and Saxman Village – try a flightseeing trip to Misty Fjords National Monument. These deepwater fjords were gouged out by retreating glaciers, leaving granite cliffs towering thousands of feet above the sea and countless waterfalls plunging into placid waters
Unmissable Experiences
Ketchikan
Day 14 - Cruise the Inside Passage
Cruise back along the Inside Passage and take in the breath-taking wilderness coastline, with snow-capped mountain peaks, glaciers, and rain forests. You may see whales, eagles, sea lions, sea otters, and mountain sheep
Unmissable Experiences
Inside Passage
Day 15 - Arrive Vancouver, fly to UK
On arrival in Vancouver, transfer to Vancouver airport for your flight to the UK
Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver
Few hotels can rival the elegance, European charm and hospitality of The Sutton Place Hotel. One of Vancouver’s most beautiful boutique hotels, situated in the heart of downtown Vancouver. The spectacular setting allows guests to experience exceptional service and all the needed amenities within the cosmopolitan ambience of the city set against a majestic backdrop of mountains and sea.
Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver
Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver — a Vancouver luxury hotel with a superb downtown address and at the same time positioned against a serene mountain backdrop. The downtown Vancouver hotel’s convenient locaion is surrounded by all the pleasures and excitement that one of Canada’s finest cities has to offer, whether you come for business or pleasure.
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Vancouver
The Fairmont Waterfront luxury hotel showcases the best of Vancouver. Conveniently located, the hotel connects by covered walkway to the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre, the cruise ship terminal at Canada Place, and the Sky train. Situated on scenic Burrard Inlet, it has a central to sightseeing and shopping in Vancouver.
Comfort Inn Campbell River
Located on the waterfront in downtown Campbell River, the Comfort Inn & Suites offers unparalleled comfort in distinctive, West Coast style.
Knight Inlet Lodge
Knight Inlet is a 100 km long fjord carved by glaciers in the coastal mountains. This pristine wilderness is the native habitat of the Grizzly Bear. Every spring when the bears come out of hibernation, they can be seen from a boat on the banks of Glendale Cove eating sedge grasses, mussels and barnacles that abound in the cove.
Image & Video Gallery
Bear at Campbell River
Campbell River Fishing
HAL at the Hubbard Glacier
Grizzlies and Alaska Cruise HAL Cruise
View of Vancouver from Granville Bridge at night
Vancouver
Vancouver Gastown Maple Tree Square
Grizzlies and Alaska Cruise Vancouver
Creek Street Ketchikan
Knight Inlet Cub
Grizzlies and Alaska Cruise Knight Inlet 2
Knight Inlet Bedroom
Knight Inlet canoes
Knight Inlet Bear
Grizzlies and Alaska Cruise Knight Inlet
Grizzlies and Alaska Cruise Whale
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