Cruise companies have scheduled their ships for a record-breaking summer in Alaska, but it’s a long way between here and there.
The cruise ship Norweigan Encore leaves the Port of Juneau on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. The Encore was sailing through Southeast Alaska on an unusual late-season cruise. their ships for a record-breaking summer in Alaska, but it’s a long way between here and there.
“As Royal Caribbean and as an industry, we have more ships deployed to Alaska than ever before,” Carroll said during a Feb. 8 videoconference. Most years, cruise companies use the long lead time between bookings and sailings to optimize their schedules; they rarely sail with ships that aren’t full or nearly so. That means 2022 could blow away Alaska’s previous cruise season record in 2019 of approximately 1.3 million visitors, just two years afterSlightly more than 100,000 people cruised to Alaska in the latter half of last summer.
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