Cunard Line announces its return to Alaska

Cunard Line has announced its first cruise to Alaskan ports in twenty years. The cruise will include four round-trip sailings on board the vessel Queen Elizabeth, which will departure Vancouver in May/June 2019.

Queen Elizabeth will sail from Tokyo (Yokohama) to Vancouver on May 5, 2019, with the first stop being the Alaskan port of Kodiak.

The second stop will be Juneau and then Skagway, before finally arriving on Sitka, Ketchikan, Victoria and Vancouver.

    Josh Leibowitz, Senior VP, Cunard North America, said”Cunard is thrilled to make our return to Alaska with our youngest ship Queen Elizabeth. Our guests can now explore the region on the best itinerary in Alaska—four 10-night round-trip Vancouver sailings with more time in port and opportunities to visit the natural wonders of Tracy Arm Fjord and Hubbard Glacier.”

Queen Elizabeth will also do four 10-night roundtrip Vancouver sailings, departing on May 21 and 31 until June 10 and 20, 2019.

The stops will include the famous Inside Passage. Then the guests will stop to Skagway and Juneau, as well as Ketchikan and Sitka. The itinerary also includes the Tracy Arm Fjord or Endicott Arm, Icy Strait Point, Hubbard Glacier and Victoria.

From Vancouver, Queen Elizabeth will head to San Francisco and then Los Angeles.

After departing from Vancouver and stopping in California, the ship continues through the Panama Canal to Ft. Lauderdale or New York before crossing the Atlantic to reach the shores of Reykjavik, Dublin, Glasgow on to London.