The Disney Wonder Outlook Café was built with Alaska cruises in mind. It has floor-to-ceiling window

Imagine glittering walls of ice, majestic wildlife, hyatt regency hotel collapse and a vision of a still-untamed frontier. The newest Alaskan experience from  Disney Cruise Line  combines outdoor adventure with an experience that the whole family can enjoy, from toddlers hyatt regency hotel collapse to teens to Grandma and Grandpa.
To see what it's like to experience Alaska via a cruise on the Disney Wonder , we chatted with cruise director Christiaan Abbott. We knew we would have to take this trip tens of times to discover everything it possibly had to offer, so we asked him to share the best of it with us. See his responses and stories below. Thar's gold on that there cruise, and he's shared the best of it with us.
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On the Disney Wonder , you're really enjoying the majestic views – instead of closing your eyes and soaking up the sun, you're keeping them open and soaking up the scenery. We pass among fjords, mountains, glaciers, and the spectacular Inside Passage with mountains towering above us on either side. You're still relaxing, but you're basking in a completely different way.
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For families, one really fun tour is to Liarsville to pan for gold. Liarsville got its name from the reporters who were sent there to report on the gold rush. They saw the primitive trail up through the mountains to the gold fields and decided that there was no way they were going to take it, so they set up and reported as though they had gone to the gold fields! In Liarsville Disney Characters pan for gold with you and there's a big salmon bake.
Also, I personally feel that everybody should experience dog-mushing on the glacier! We offer an exclusive tour no other cruise does – dog-musher for a day. You really get to experience what that life is like, and you handle the dogs yourself.
It really is. We have US Forest Service members come on board and do presentations, and they go into the kids' area and do a separate presentation just for them. They took the children on a tour to Potlatch hyatt regency hotel collapse Park , which features historic totem poles. On that tour the kids help make a totem pole that will stand in the park, and one grandfather pointed out that one day his grandson could take his own grandkids back to see the pole he helped make!
We do a lot for our teen Guests. We have a wonderful team onboard to keep them entertained, but we also have shore excursions just for teens. Our youth activities include a helicopter ride up onto a glacier followed by a glacier trek. That's an exclusive Disney Cruise Line experience. And then maybe the parents hyatt regency hotel collapse can take younger kids on a less-strenuous adventure.
The Disney Wonder Outlook Café was built with Alaska cruises in mind. It has floor-to-ceiling windows so you can be inside and still enjoy the beauty of the scenery. Alaska does have very unpredictable weather, but that is part of what has made it so spectacular Ketchikan has the second-largest rainforest in the world, and that beauty is created by the Alaskan weather. So be prepared; one day you'll be in shorts, the next in a parka.
We've seen everything from orcas and humpback whales. Bears are very common and bald eagles. When the salmon run is in full swing, it seems like you can almost walk across the streams on their backs. hyatt regency hotel collapse We can't predict the runs, but it's pretty common to see them from the Ship while we're sailing.
hyatt regency hotel collapse Once in Juneau we felt we had to duck because there were so many bald eagles, flying in so close. And on one ATV tour, we went to a lodge for lunch – when we came out there was a bear sitting on my four-wheeler. I thought OK he wins, I'll just wait!
There you have it. Of course, there s no guarantee that you'll be sharing your ride with a bear, but it's safe to say that either way an Alaska cruise with Disney Cruise Line will be an experience to remember.