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December 16, 2008 Travel Guide
Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a cruise-savvy friend in Alaska!

•Updated annually, Fodor’s Alaska Ports of Call provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

Fodor’s Alaska Ports of Call features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable options for cruising in Alaska.

•Experience an Alaskan cruise like an insider! Fodor’s Alaska Ports of Call includes choices for every type of cruiser---from small vessels to luxurious crafts, from major ports like Anchorage and Juneau to out-of-the-way destinations like Unalaska and the Pribilof Islands---plus coverage of Alaska’s whales, glaciers, gold, shore excursions great and small, and much more!

•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common cruising pitfalls.

•Use the expanded selection of maps to orient yourself to each port of embarcation and port of call.

Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Fodor's; Revised edition (December 16, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1400007070
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400007073
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,129,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat dissappointed, April 16, 2009
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This review is from: Fodor's Alaska Ports of Call 2009 (Travel Guide) (Paperback)
The information included in the book is very generic. I was looking for more information about excursions at each port. This book only hits a few highlights that you could find in any tourist book. I was hoping it would have information about private/local operators that offered tours and excursions that included contact numbers.

If you are looking for an overview of an Alaskan cruise this would be a good book to start with, but you may need to look elsewhere for more specific information to plan you port experiences.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Alaska Cruise, February 1, 2009
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Every first time cruiser to Alaska should read at least one book summarizing the experience and ports. This one will not dissapoint.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Alaska, April 8, 2009
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Going back again this summer to Alaska. This time we are getting prepared ahead of time for the events we want to see. This little book contains a wealth of information.
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