Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
We spent 11 nights on a small ship exploring the most spectacular coastline on the planet. This is Alaska to Vancouver — and we're doing it properly.
Forget the floating apartment blocks. We're on board Windstar Cruises' Star Breeze — an elegantly compact ship that gets into hidden fjords, sidles up to calving glaciers, and sneaks into tiny ports the mega-ships can only dream about.
This is Part 2 of our 11-night small ship voyage from Seward, Alaska to Vancouver aboard Windstar's Star Breeze — and things are getting properly epic.
In this episode:
🏙️ Juneau — the only US state capital you can't drive to, where bald eagles sit on streetlights and the Red Dog Saloon has been legally recognised as the oldest man-made tourist attraction in town (which tells you everything)
🧊 Tracy Arm Fjord — we didn't make it in. Now we know why. (August 2025. Look it up.)
🇳🇴 Petersburg — Alaska's Little Norway, complete with Viking parades, compulsory herring-throwing, and the world's largest single-masted yacht inexplicably parked next to us
🐋 The Wrangell Narrows — hundreds of whales. Hundreds. You'll just have to watch.
🦅 Wrangell — four nations, one very underrated town, and a garnet mine run exclusively by children
🌧️ Prince Rupert, Canada — the wettest city in Canada, wolf safety tips in the phone book, and Grenville Channel, which is so beautiful it barely seems real
💥 Seymour Narrows — the underwater mountain that sank 119 ships, and the largest non-nuclear explosion in North American history
Oh, and we also make the case — fairly comprehensively, we think — for why Alaska should always be done by small ship.
🚢 Ship: Windstar Star Breeze (312 guests | all-suite | post-2021 'stretch' refit)
📍 Route: Seward → Juneau → Tracy Arm → Petersburg → Wrangell → Prince Rupert → Grenville Channel → Seymour Narrows → Vancouver
🗓️ Series: Part 2 of 2 — [Part 1 here: youtu.be/TaC7RrbHw1o?si=5TeRkLoVkDhVChWL]
Windstar Cruises | Inside Passage | Alaska Small Ship Cruise | Alaska Travel 2025 | Juneau Alaska | Tracy Arm Fjord | Petersburg Alaska | Wrangell Alaska | Prince Rupert BC | Grenville Channel | Seymour Narrows | Small Ship vs Mega Ship | Luxury Cruise Alaska
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⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Juneau, crabs and Duck Farts
10:27 Tracy Arm, or it should've been!
12:32 Petersburg (Little Norway) and whales surround us!
20:07 Prince Rupert and Grenville Channel
26:03 Seymour Narrows
29:16 Our Conclusion
🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES
▶ Star Breeze Full Ship Tour: [youtu.be/3_GYEMKsqzA?si=T-rlPJZk7CNQkLL1]
#AlaskaCruise #WindstarCruises #StarBreeze #AlaskaTravel #SmallShipCruise #HubbardGlacier #CollegeFjord #HumpbackWhales #AlaskaRailroad #CruiseReview #AlaskaVancouver #GlacierBay #IcyStraightPoint #TravelVlog #LuxuryCruise #ExpeditionCruise #AlaskaWildlife #AnchorageDO YOU
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We spent 11 nights on a small ship exploring the most spectacular coastline on the planet. This is Alaska to Vancouver — and we're doing it properly.
Forget the floating apartment blocks. We're on board Windstar Cruises' Star Breeze — an elegantly compact ship that gets into hidden fjords, sidles up to calving glaciers, and sneaks into tiny ports the mega-ships can only dream about.
This is Part 2 of our 11-night small ship voyage from Seward, Alaska to Vancouver aboard Windstar's Star Breeze — and things are getting properly epic.
In this episode:
🏙️ Juneau — the only US state capital you can't drive to, where bald eagles sit on streetlights and the Red Dog Saloon has been legally recognised as the oldest man-made tourist attraction in town (which tells you everything)
🧊 Tracy Arm Fjord — we didn't make it in. Now we know why. (August 2025. Look it up.)
🇳🇴 Petersburg — Alaska's Little Norway, complete with Viking parades, compulsory herring-throwing, and the world's largest single-masted yacht inexplicably parked next to us
🐋 The Wrangell Narrows — hundreds of whales. Hundreds. You'll just have to watch.
🦅 Wrangell — four nations, one very underrated town, and a garnet mine run exclusively by children
🌧️ Prince Rupert, Canada — the wettest city in Canada, wolf safety tips in the phone book, and Grenville Channel, which is so beautiful it barely seems real
💥 Seymour Narrows — the underwater mountain that sank 119 ships, and the largest non-nuclear explosion in North American history
Oh, and we also make the case — fairly comprehensively, we think — for why Alaska should always be done by small ship.
🚢 Ship: Windstar Star Breeze (312 guests | all-suite | post-2021 'stretch' refit)
📍 Route: Seward → Juneau → Tracy Arm → Petersburg → Wrangell → Prince Rupert → Grenville Channel → Seymour Narrows → Vancouver
🗓️ Series: Part 2 of 2 — [Part 1 here: youtu.be/TaC7RrbHw1o?si=5TeRkLoVkDhVChWL]
Windstar Cruises | Inside Passage | Alaska Small Ship Cruise | Alaska Travel 2025 | Juneau Alaska | Tracy Arm Fjord | Petersburg Alaska | Wrangell Alaska | Prince Rupert BC | Grenville Channel | Seymour Narrows | Small Ship vs Mega Ship | Luxury Cruise Alaska
If you enjoyed this, hit subscribe — we upload new travel content regularly, and there's considerably more of this sort of thing on the way.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Juneau, crabs and Duck Farts
10:27 Tracy Arm, or it should've been!
12:32 Petersburg (Little Norway) and whales surround us!
20:07 Prince Rupert and Grenville Channel
26:03 Seymour Narrows
29:16 Our Conclusion
🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES
▶ Star Breeze Full Ship Tour: [youtu.be/3_GYEMKsqzA?si=T-rlPJZk7CNQkLL1]
#AlaskaCruise #WindstarCruises #StarBreeze #AlaskaTravel #SmallShipCruise #HubbardGlacier #CollegeFjord #HumpbackWhales #AlaskaRailroad #CruiseReview #AlaskaVancouver #GlacierBay #IcyStraightPoint #TravelVlog #LuxuryCruise #ExpeditionCruise #AlaskaWildlife #AnchorageDO YOU
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS SHIP, CRUISE LINE OR VOYAGE?
We are very proud to be official Brand Ambassadors for PANACHE CRUISES, the UK and US specialist in Elite Ocean, River, Expedition and Yacht Style cruising. Click on the link or give them a call on the number below and one of their dedicated Cruise Connoisseurs will help you plan your perfect cruise. PLEASE don't forget to mention 'Visit With Us'! Thank you.
Call this number now - 0161 513 8202 (UK) or 888 894-6153 (US)
Or copy this link into your browser - bit.ly/2PdAPxy
(These are sponsored referral links and if you book through one of these, Visit With Us will get a few pennies at no cost to you to help us keep bringing you more great content you know - and hopefully - love. Thank you.)
VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE:
We were invited on board as guests of Windstar Cruises (WC). We paid for our own transport to the ship and received no fees or remuneration for producing media during and after this voyage from WC. Any resulting videos have been produced without influence or expectation from WC and we had complete editorial and artistic freedom. WC have had no prior preview of this content and are watching for the first time along with you. All our videos contain our personal and unbiased opinion. Please ask us if you want to know more or visit asa.org.uk for more information on blogger/vlogger disclosure requirements. Thank you and we hope you enjoy the content as much as we did creating it. Rich and Helen x
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!
Join us on FaceBook: search for 'Visit With Us' but also our cruise group 'Visit With Us Cruise Chat'
Follow us on Instagram & Threads: visitwith.us
Read our beautifully clean, picture rich blogs: visitwithus.co.uk
Follow us on X (formerly Twitter): @visitwithus
Follow us on Tiktok: @visitwithus
Follow us on Bluesky: @visitwithus.bsky.social
