Most people come to Alaska with one picture in their head. A glacier, seen from somewhere warm and dry, with nobody in the way.
Getting that picture is mostly a matter of decisions made months earlier — which week, which ship, which side of the boat, and whether your itinerary actually stops where you think it stops. None of it is complicated. It's just specific, and most of it never comes up until it's too late to change.
These are the questions I answer most often. If yours isn't here, ask me.
Start here
Best time to visit Alaska
May through September, and what each month actually looks like — including the two weeks most people should avoid and nobody warns them about.
Glacier Bay vs. Hubbard Glacier
The single decision that most determines whether you get the glacier day you're imagining.
Princess vs. Holland America in Alaska
Two good lines, two genuinely different trips. How to tell which one is yours.
Before you book
Alaska land & cruise tours
Adding Denali to the front or the back of the week, and what that does to the rest of it.
Alaska cruise packing list
What people actually forget. Layers, binoculars, and the one pair of shoes that matters.
What to do in Ketchikan if it rains
Because it will. The people who planned for it have a better day than the people who didn't.
The thing I'd tell you first
If anyone in your group has trouble walking distances — a cane, a bad knee, a hip that's been replaced, or just a pace that isn't what it used to be — tell me before we talk about anything else.
Some Alaska ports don't have a dock. The ship anchors offshore and everyone goes in by tender, which is a small boat, boarded by steps, in whatever the water is doing that morning. On a good day it's an inconvenience. On a bad one it's a port you skip entirely, from a chair, watching everyone else leave.
There are itineraries that tie up at the dock in every single port. You walk off. No boats. They cost about the same and almost nobody knows to ask for them.
That's the sort of thing I'm for.
Who I work with
Families who'd rather spend the vacation together than on hold with an airline. First-time cruisers who don't know what to ask yet — which is fine, that's my job. Grandparents trying to get three generations into one week that everybody remembers.
I don't book party resorts or spring break, and I'm not the person to call if the only thing that matters is the lowest possible price. Plenty of good advisors do that work. I'm not one of them, and I'd rather say so now.
Tell me what you're thinking
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