Holland America Westours Cruises

You’ll see more Alaska with us. Twice as much! Because no other tour company includes so many travel options to the Yukon and all the Gold Rush Country. Only with Holland America Westours can you visit every storied site, from Skagway to the Klondike. We’ll show you the Alaska you’ve dreamed of: the mountains, the glaciers, the incredible wildlife. No one else can match our experience, facilities and enthusiasm. Twice as much Alaska, with the leader.

We will take you to viewpoints where the sheer size of Alaska and the Yukon will overwhelm you. As you travel through Gold Rush Country, you’ll learn the fine points of gold panning from the experts. Visit an enormous gold dredge in Fairbanks, see how miners worked and lived. Ride from Skagway to White Pass, along the steep Stampeder’s Trail. Your conductor will relate the saga of how the rail line was blasted through the rugged rocky St. Elias Mountains. When you take to the open road on our Alaska-Yukon Explorer, you may have to yield to a native moose. Ride the Dalton Highway through the Brooks Range and one of the world’s most remote and fragile ecosystems.

Get the best views of the glaciers that drew you to Alaska. Holland America Westours will show you all the icy sights, from Portage Glacier to Glacier Bay, by excursion boat, cruise ship, motorcoach or helicopter. Watching a glacier perform is an experience you’ll never forget: the electric blue of the glacier’s towering face, the thunderous boom when huge chunks of ice split off and plunge in to the sea. At Portage Glacier near Anchorage, our mv Ptarmigan gets you as close to the action as can be.

Alaska’s wildlife puts on a grand show, wherever you go. Orcas (killer whales) entertain you as you cruise, witness a puffin confab on the shores of an islet in Glacier Bay, and on your tour through Denali Park, look sharp and you may spy a wary family of grizzlies or a curious Arctic fox.

See the grandeur of the Great Land in maximum comfort. The McKinley Explorer whisks you to Denali National Park. Aboard our spacious Alaska-Yukon Explorer, ride the Alaska Highway through open-wide spaces. Cruise through the wilds of Gold Rush Country on our trim excursion boat, the Yukon Queen. Cruising to Alaska with Holland America Line has all the ingredients of an ideal holiday: comfort, attentive care, and unbeatable scenery, such as the gorgeous Inside Passage. Everybody on the ship wants you to enjoy your cruise. Our gracious ships’ officers really mean it when they tell you they’re glad you’re aboard!

Cruise and Tour Choices

Guided Alaska-Yukon Explorer Tours
Hosted Alaska Highlights Tours
Deluxe Escorted Tours
Deluxe Escorted Canadian Rockies Tours

No matter which cruise and tour combination you select, you’ll be in the good hands of Alaska’s most experienced guides. Centerpiece of every single cruise is your relaxing voyage of the super scenic Inside Passage on your spacious Holland America ship, with famous five-star service all the way.

The Ships

ms Westerdam
ms Nieuw Amsterdam
ms Noordam
ms Statendam
ms Maasdam
ms Ryndam

Holland America Westours
General Information

A "no cash" policy is used on board ship. You will be asked to sign for all purchases and services provided. You will receive an itemized bill to settle at the purser’s office upon completion of your cruise.

Sweaters, lightweight jackets, slacks and sport shirts are fine for day wear. Comfortable walking shoes are a must! For evening wear, you can either dress elegantly casual or formal. For elegantly casual evenings, men are required to wear jackets for dinner and ladies should dress in dresses or pantsuits. For the formal dining room, cocktail dresses for the ladies and tuxedos or business suits for the men.

Tipping is a matter of personal choice and is not required on Holland America Line cruise ships. Personnel may accept tips if the gratuities are offered voluntarily by passengers for exceptional service. The company forbids any form of soliciting for tips.

Baggage policy conforms to airline restrictions.

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ms Westerdam

• Passangers 1,494
• Length 798 feet
• Registered the Netherlands

Enjoy elegant dining in the Amsterdam Dining Room and then catch the live entertainment in the Admiral’s Lounge. You can dance the night away in the Queen’s Lounge or take a stroll along the deck and watch the stars come out.

All staterooms are equipped with television, telephone, and multi-channel music. There are fourteen outside staterooms to choose from and seven inside floor plans.

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ms Nieuw Amsterdam & ms Noordam

• Passengers 1,214
• Length 704 feet
• Registered the Netherlands

These twin ships offer 14 restaurants and lounges – some cozy, some grand, most with expansive floor-to-ceiling windows that put you at one with the sea.

All staterooms on the Nieuw Amsterdam and Noordam are equipped with television, telephone and multi channel music. There are nine outside stateroom floor plans to choose from and six inside stateroom floor plans.

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ms Statendam, ms Maasdam & ms Ryndam

• Passengers 1,266
• Length 720 feet
• Registered the Netherlands

These are our most elegant expressions yet of the shipbuilder’s art. Lobby atriums soar three decks high. Elegant two-tiered dining rooms boast wraparound windows, canopies of Murano glass.

All staterooms on these three ships are equipped with television, telephone and multi channel music. There are eleven outside stateroom floor plans and six inside stateroom floor plans to choose for your accommodations. Deluxe staterooms and suites have private verandahs.

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