SUPER ALASKA CRUISE

T. Alaska Cruise Links

 

I encourage you to explore with search engines sites for all ports of call on your Alaskan cruise and send away for free brochures when offered.  On another page I have provided the web sites for the cruise lines offering Alaskan voyages.  Below are some unusual sites that may be helpful and interesting for people researching an Alaskan cruise.  Please try all sites.

---

 Live Cams with images of Alaska

1. Live Photo Cam from Juneau Public Library: http://www.juneau.lib.ak.us/camera.htm

This is a cam located in the window of the dockside Juneau Public Library aimed at the cruise ship docks and it updates every 30 seconds.  Use it along with ship cams to get a real time view of the Juneau waterfront area from various vantages.  Also print out the schedule of ships visiting Juneau from the Northwest CruiseShip Association site below to identify which ship is at dock and to see when to tune in to get a real time picture of your ship so you know it made it to Alaska before you sail.  Below are some pictures taken by this cam.

 

2. Untitled page with live cams from several cruise ships: http://www.tsinc.simplenet.com/cruise/shipcams.hts

This page pulls the live cams from several cruise ships (the Princess Cruise Line Fleet, ships from NCL and Royal Caribbean) and the Panama Canal.  This site refreshes itself every so often to pull in the latest pictures.  It also has a link to a daily updated schedule of the Alaskan ports of call, and a feature where the viewer can post messages commenting on the location of the ships.  Use a shipboard camera to find ships docked at Juneau’s ‘South Franklin Street Dock’, which cannot be seen from the Juneau Public Library photo cam.  Below are some pictures taken by ships’ live cams.

3. Juneau Live Webcam: http://www.go2net.org/alaska/juneau/webcam.html

This site has pictures taken from the back porch of someone who either works or lives across the channel from the Juneau waterfront.  The pictures are updated once or twice a day.

 

4. Seattle Loft Cam: http://www.loftcam.com/

This is a real time cam that overlooks a dock on the Seattle waterfront.  I once saw an Alaska bound cruise ship.

 

5. Vancouver Live Cam:  http://www.videocomplex.com/cruisecam.htm

This site is says that it is a web cam overlooking the Canada Place Cruiseship terminal in Vancouver, but the picture has not changed for months.  I think it is no longer active.  If it worked it would be a great site to see cruise ships arrive and depart (when used with the schedule in the Port Vancouver site).

 

6. Haines: http://www.akweathercams.com/Haines/haines.asp

This site is of cameras located in the wilderness around Haines, Alaska.  I have not seen anything special, but I have not spent time looking at the site.

 

7. Current Weather Images from Valdez: http://www.alaska.net/~nwsar/photo.html

This site has cameras overlooking Valdez Harbor for visitors taking one-way Alaskan cruises.  I have not seen anything special, but I have not spent time looking at the site.

---

 

Alaska Cruise Schedules

1. North West CruiseShip Association: http://www.alaskacruises.org/

This site is a trade association of the cruise lines sailing the Alaskan routes.  If you click on ‘Ports of Call’ you can find schedules for the entire season for each Alaskan port visited by cruise ships.  Included are times of arrival and departure and which berth the ship will dock at (or whether the ship’s passengers will be tendering).  Find out how busy each of your ports of call will be when you visit.

 

2. Port Vancouver: http://www.portvancouver.com/

This site (after scrolling through a few pages) contains the schedule for the entire season for cruise ships at the Vancouver docks.  It also indicates whether the ship is docking at Canada Place or Ballantyne Pier, so you know where to go to meet your ship.

---

 

Sites Containing Alaska Cruise News

1. The Cruises page of the Marine News website: http://www.wn.com/?t=maritime/cruises.txt

This page pulls all items from English language web news sites that contain the word ‘cruise’.  Many interesting incidents concerning single cruise ships and stories about the cruise ship industry are located here (along with an occasional article on a cruise missile).

 

2. The Eagle Eye Journal: http://www.eagleyejournal.com/

This is the site of the Haines local newspaper.  It is updated once a week.

 

3. Juneau Daily News Online: http://www.juneau.com/kiny/newsminute/

This is the site of the Juneau local newspaper.  It is updated daily.

 

4. Anchorage Daily News: http://www.adn.com/

This is the site of the major newspaper in the largest Alaskan city.  It is updated daily and contains news from all over Alaska.

To Gallery

E-Mail Me With Your Comments, Suggestions, Pictures, etc at:

[email protected]

Links to other pages in the Super Alaska Cruise web site