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Which local Alaska glacier cruise is the BEST? Cruises depart from Valdez or Whitter?

Welcome Alaska local residents or those who ever been traveled to Alaska to answer this question.
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1. im not sure where it departs from but prince william sound glacier cruises is suposed to be good and kenai fjords national cruises, the website is www.majormarine.com

2. All the cruises are really good i cant really pick one to be the best. and most of the cruises leave from Whittier or Seward.

3. Whittier itself is a dump. Built by the government during WWII to be a secret alternative port in case Seward got invaded. Most people in town live in a single, ugly concrete highrise. But it is the shortest access from Anchorage to Prince William Sound (which is gorgeous). (And has the world's only bi-directional, rail-and-car, single-lane tunnel. It's all down with timed lights).

Seward and Valdez are both in gorgeous settings at the heads of fjords. Sort of like if you flooded Switzerland and threw in a few moose. Valdez has a big oil terminal. Seward has the Sea Life Center (a very good, modern aquarium) and access through day cruises to Kenai Fjords National Park. So I'd say Seward wins.

It is a pretty 2-hour bus ride from Seward to your connecting flight in Anchorage. To get to/from Valdez, you take a 737 on the "milk-run", a 33-seat twin-prop Dash-8 or you drive a really long ways to Anchorage.

4. Log onto Alaskatravel.com. They have all the local cruises around that area. Always, always take the local companies. Do not go with the lines that work all over the world.