# Alaska Cruise Deals? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 5, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaska-cruise-deals/498871 "2009-06-05T20:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SanDiegoTim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaska-cruise-deals/498871/1 "2009-06-05T20:00:15Z")
The Wall Street Journal published an article a few weeks back about deals on Alaska Cruises for this summer. Long story short, it was due to the bad economy. However, when I go online, there doesn’t seem to be any unusually good deals. Not knowing anything about cuising, does anyone have any insight into getting a good deal? ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaska-cruise-deals/498871/2 "2009-06-05T22:30:55Z")
Did you check out the web page mentioned in the WSJ column? [www.alaskashottesttraveldeals.com](http://www.alaskashottesttraveldeals.com) I don’t know enough about cruises to say if those are really good deals or not. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaska-cruise-deals/498871/3 "2009-06-06T00:05:53Z")
Where are you looking? I just took a 12 day Mediterranean cruise, booked last minute, which came out to well under $100 / day a person. And not on a junk ship. I couldn’t not find good deals! There seemed to be a price curve - long in the future, not too bad, then a bit higher, than much lower for things a month or two ahead. I didn’t look at Alaskan cruises, since we’ve been already, but Canal and Caribbean cruises were very cheap. The only reason I could see for more demand would be from people scared away from Mexico - but the experiences are not quite the same. ---
**Author:** ![FORTRAN\_forever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f17d59/32.png) [@FORTRAN\_forever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FORTRAN_forever)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaska-cruise-deals/498871/4 "2009-06-06T00:31:21Z")
My wife and I just checked into Alaskan cruise options (specifically. “cruisetour”, involving both a cruise portion and an inland portion) for mid-July, and the travel agent told us that things were pretty booked up. She found us a couple of open cruisetours, but no special deals on them. (We ended up deciding not to go for reasons that had nothing to do with the available options,) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaska-cruise-deals/498871/5 "2009-06-06T02:18:56Z")
Don’t know where the best deals are, but I did a 7 day Alaska cruise a month ago on a Holland America ship. We spent about $260 each per day including airfare, tips, shore excursions and everything. Just want to say everyone should do an Alaska cruise, and we were happy with that cruise line.