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[quote=Anonymous]We did one that started in Vancouver, went through Glacier Bay, and ended in Seward.  I recommend renting a car to drive from Seward to Anchorage instead of paying for the ship transfer to Anchorage -- it's a beautiful drive and there are nice places to stop.  We should have built in more time for that.   Seward has a gorgeous aquarium.  And there's a fabulous native culture place outside Anchorage that I wished we had a full day for.  You can also go from there into Denali.  The bus trips into Denali are very long, and we had little kids so we didn't do it.  
Our big splurge (and man was it expensive) was a helicopter ride over the glaciers, stopping on a glacier to visit a dog sled camp and ride a dog sled.  It was awesome.  I wanted to take up dog sledding as a hobby it was so fun.
Its different than other cruises because the port stops are really beautiful places in their own right, so you don't necessarily need to buy excursions, but there's ton to do.
The one excursion we regretted was a whale watching boat trip.  We saw more whales from the cruise ship.
Note that some of the bigger fancier cruise ships can't go into the bays as well.  So there's a trade-off with ship amenities versus maneuverability.  We took Holland America, and the ships are smaller than RCL but bigger than the really expensive high-end cruises.  There's a ton of info on cruisecritic.com.
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