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A Princess Tours train in 2007. Princess Tours is an Alaskan sightseeing passenger car service owned by Princess Cruises and operated by its Rail Division. Princess Tours runs ten cars a day (five north, five south) from Anchorage to Fairbanks on the Alaska Railroad, stopping at Talkeetna, Denali, and occasionally Whittier.
Alaska's portion of the Inside Passage extends 500 miles (800 km) from north to south and 100 miles (160 km) from east to west. The area encompasses 1,000 islands and thousands of coves and bays. While the Alexander Archipelago in Alaska provides some protection from the Pacific Ocean weather, much of the area experiences strong semi-diurnal tides.
The ship served in P&O Cruises fleet as Artemis until 2011. In 1986, P&O Princess Cruises acquired Tour Alaska, which operated on the Alaska Railroad. Based in Anchorage, Alaska, Princess Tours now operates ten luxury railcars with full-service scenic tours of Denali (formerly Mount McKinley) and can accommodate over 700 passengers per day.
Cruise ports line the coast of Alaska, from Ketchikan in the south, dubbed "the salmon capital of the world," to more northern cities like Juneau, where glaciers and whale-watching abound.
Cruise ships dock in Juneau, Alaska in June 2023 (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer) The capital city of Alaska will set new limits on how many cruise ship passengers can visit every day after a post-pandemic ...
Initially passengers were tendered into the Icy Strait Point dock, [8] then in 2016 construction was finished on a 400-foot (120 m) floating dock suitable for cruise ships that replaced tendering. [11] By 2019, there were 137 cruise ships scheduled to visit Icy Strait Point. [12] But still only one cruise ship was present at any given time. [8]
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