Rocky Mountains and Alaskan Adventure

TRAVEL
Return flights and transfers
Included travel insurance
VIP door-to-door travel service from anywhere on the UK mainland

ACCOMMODATION
7 nights in hotels, 7 on board ship and 1 in flight
Porterage at all hotels and aboard Koningsdam

EXPERIENCES
Tour Manager
Banff National Park and Sulphur Mountain cable-car ride
Photostop at Lake Louise
Ice Explorer ride over the Athabasca Glacier
Two days on the Rocky Mountaineer train
Cruise the Inside Passage aboard Koningsdam
Time in Alaska's capital, Juneau
Visit to gold rush-era Skagway
Cruise through Glacier Bay National Park

FOOD & DRINK
Welcome drink reception
31 meals: 14 breakfasts, 8 lunches and 9 dinners

After taking your included VIP door-to-door travel service to the airport, fly to Calgary. Transfer to the 4-star Residence Inn Downtown (3Q), which is located in the central Beltline district of this cosmopolitan city in the foothills of the spectacular Rocky Mountains.

Facilities at the hotel include a restaurant, lounge bar, and fitness centre. Each of the air-conditioned bedrooms has a telephone, television, and hairdryer. Dinner is not included tonight so you're free to dine out wherever you like.

Travel to Banff (80 miles, 90 minutes). Enjoy a brief tour and a cable-car ride that will take you to the summit of Sulphur Mountain for views over Banff and a panorama of mountains and valleys. Sulphur Mountain got its name because of the sulphurous hot springs at the Park’s Cave and Basin Spring.

Spend a two-night stay at the 4-star Royal Canadian Lodge (4Q). Right on Banff’s main street, the hotel is within walking distance of shops and restaurants, and has a restaurant, a mineral pool, a hot tub and a steam room. All rooms have a television, telephone, kettle, coffee maker, free Wi-Fi, hairdryer, bathrobe, safe, iron and ironing board.

You'll be able to enjoy the rest of the afternoon at leisure.

Meals Included: Breakfast | Dinner

This morning enjoy an included scenic drive around Banff National Park. You may have the chance to take an optional helicopter flight over the Rockies.

Meals Included: Breakfast

En route to Jasper (190 miles, four hours), pause at jade-coloured Lake Louise, ‘Jewel of the Rockies’.

Continue your journey along the Icefields Parkway, perhaps the most exciting stretch of highway in Canada, running from Lake Louise to Jasper through the heart of the Rockies. You'll take an included Ice Explorer ride over part of the Athabasca Glacier.

Arrive at Jasper National Park late this afternoon, where you'll spend the next two nights at the 3-star Sawridge Inn (3Q). Facilities include an indoor swimming pool and jacuzzi, outdoor hot tub, two restaurants, a lounge bar and a gift shop. For an additional charge, guests may use the Mountain Wellness Spa, where various health and beauty treatments are available. All guest rooms have a television, direct-dial telephone, coffee maker, fridge, hairdryer and ironing facilities. Each room offers wireless high-speed internet access free of charge.

Please note: some departures will stay at the 3-star Chateau Jasper (3Q) instead.

Meals Included: Breakfast | Dinner

At leisure. There will be a choice of optional excursions available on this day, including a ‘river float’. Your tour manager will be able to provide more information.

Meals Included: Breakfast

Join the Rocky Mountaineer for a thrilling rail journey through spectacular scenery. Stay overnight at a 3 star hotel selected by Rocky Mountaineer.

Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch

Enjoy breakfast on board Rocky Mountaineer, whilst continuing your rail adventure through breathtaking scenery as you journey to Vancouver.

Stay overnight at the 4-star Georgian Court Hotel (4Q), which is set in the heart of downtown Vancouver’s ‘Theatre and Sports Entertainment District’ and is just steps away from Robson Street’s chic shops and Yaletown’s charming restaurants, as well as many other local attractions. The hotel has a fitness centre with a fully equipped exercise room, whirlpool and a steam room. Each of the 180 guest rooms has air-conditioning and heating, a television, direct-dial telephone, clock radio, kettle, coffee-making facilities, mini fridge, hairdryer, iron and ironing board.

Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch

Enjoy an included city tour of Vancouver before embarking Holland America's Koningsdam for your seven-night full-board cruise along the Alaskan Coast.

Meals Included: Breakfast | Dinner

Cruise past fjords, forested islands and snow-capped mountains.

Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

Spend this morning cruising Travy Arm fjord. Arrive this afternoon in the Alaskan capital of Juneau, which nestles between towering mountains and forested hills. Perhaps visit the Red Dog Saloon, pan for gold or visit the mighty Medenhall Glacier.

Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

Visit Skagway where you can discover buildings that date from the gold rush era.

Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

An undoubted highlight of your cruise will be Glacier Bay National Park, where you’ll have a front-row view of the incredible spires and pinnacles of ice.

Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

Step ashore on Revillagigedo Island. Ketchikan is situated in steep hills in the Tongass National Forest.

Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

Sail back through the Inside Passage.

Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

Disembark in Vancouver and enjoy some free time before travelling to the airport for your return flight.

Meals Included: Breakfast

Arrive this morning for your included VIP door-to-door travel service home.