Alaska Trip Critique Request
Hi, All:
I am just starting looking into Alaska for June of next year and could use some direction to my early thinking. This is for a family of 4 from the Midwest. Here is my early itiniary…
- fly into Fairbanks. Minimal stay (the only thing that interest us here is a day trip to the arctic circle with a tour company - don't want to go do ourselves due to cell phone black outs). Probably 1 to 2 days in a hotel.
- drive to Denali and spend 2 to 3 days (hotel).
- drive to Anchorage and spend 2 to 4 days (hotel).
- take a cruise from there down to Vancouver or Seattle (preferably as short as possible - 4 night - as we are not cruise people).
- fly home from there.
We could do this in reverse order and nothing is set. We would like to see a few glaciers, do a flightseeing and bear sighting. Nothing crazy. So...
- Is this doable?
- Are we too late for next year?
- Are there 4 day cruises (I only seem to find 7 day minimum ones right now)? Or do I have to use the ferry system?
I think that's it for now. Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks to all!