Icy Strait Point in Alaska, a winner in Travel + Leisure's 2025 Global Vision Awards, offers both thoughtful programs and exciting excursions. Elaine Glusac is a writer and travel columnist for The ...

MSC Poesia is undergoing a major 2026 refit, adding the MSC Yacht Club, new specialty dining, refreshed spa spaces, and more ...

Q: What is the Icy Strait Point experience like right now? A: After 20 years, it has changed dramatically. We've got two cruise ship docks. We have gondolas that spread people out to get their own ...

SEATTLE — In Alaska's Icy Strait Point, there is one experience that combines nerves, excitement and competition — the highest and longest zipline in the state. “If you're in for a thrill in Alaska, ...

Huna Totem Corporation (HTC), the Alaska Native village corporation that owns and operates the cruise ship destinations Icy Strait Point and Port Klawock, as well as a new cruise terminal in Whittier, ...

With 629 staterooms, Riviera is an ideal size—large enough to have lots of amenities but small enough to never feel too crowded. Excellent restaurants, including a steakhouse and venues doing French, ...

Padget Kaiser from St. Helena, California, the first cruise ship passenger to set foot in Klawock, is greeted by representatives of Port Klawock. (Courtesy of Jennifer Black) Alaska’s newest port, ...

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has informed guests that one of its most popular ports in Alaska will not be available on some itineraries in 2023. The popular call in Skagway is not physically open to ...

An aerial view of Icy Strait Point, the first private cruise destination on Alaska’s Inside Passage. More than 20 years ago, when the Tlingit residents of Hoonah in coastal Alaska decided to build a ...

More than 20 years ago, when the Tlingit residents of Hoonah in coastal Alaska decided to build a cruise port on native land, the stakes were high. The community’s main sources of income—logging and ...