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Having done both - RT on Galaxy in 2000 and one way to Seward in 2002, I would say the one-way trip is actually more beautiful (we didn't do a land tour.) Before I went to Alaska, I had no desire to see it. Now, I would go back every year if I could.We did decide, though, that we would prefer to start in the sleepy town of Ankorage and end in the cosmopolitan city of Vancouver. We also felt the glaciers were more spectacular on the one-way trip. However, there was at least one throwaway port - Valdez. Not much to see, but the smell of oil in the air was interesting.We used frequent flyer miles to get there - Atlanta to Seattle (drove SEA to YVR), then Ankorage to Atlanta through Salt Lake - and they counted it as one round trip. Ankorage to Seattle just came up cheaper than Vancouver on Travelocity, and breaking a roundtrip was even cheaper.
Having done both - RT on Galaxy in 2000 and one way to Seward in 2002, I would say the one-way trip is actually more beautiful (we didn't do a land tour.) Before I went to Alaska, I had no desire to see it. Now, I would go back every year if I could.
We did decide, though, that we would prefer to start in the sleepy town of Ankorage and end in the cosmopolitan city of Vancouver. We also felt the glaciers were more spectacular on the one-way trip. However, there was at least one throwaway port - Valdez. Not much to see, but the smell of oil in the air was interesting.
We used frequent flyer miles to get there - Atlanta to Seattle (drove SEA to YVR), then Ankorage to Atlanta through Salt Lake - and they counted it as one round trip. Ankorage to Seattle just came up cheaper than Vancouver on Travelocity, and breaking a roundtrip was even cheaper.
