Alaska Avontuur Cruise met The Boat Company

We booked this as our honeymoon splurge, and even at that price point it felt worth every penny from the first day to the last. The small luxury ship's size meant only a handful of passengers, so the crew knew our names by lunch and the whale sightings felt like they were just for us. If you can swi

The small-ship setup is what sold me, and it delivered. We spent a full week weaving through fjords with fewer than 100 passengers, so there was zero crowding when the captain cut the engines to let the humpbacks surface. Worth every penny for the scenery alone.

We booked the mid-June sailing mostly for the scenery, but the small ship's capacity made every meal and shore excursion feel personal. Standing on the bow with maybe ten other people while a glacier calved was worth every penny of the $6,250.