Anchorage to Seward transportation options

[treesah]

We'll be dropping off our rental car in Anchorage and would like to know what options we have to travel to Seward for a late cruise departure. I understand there is a train, several bus options and possibly a shuttle bus? We prefer not to take the cruise line's transportation since it involves a lot of waiting and wasting time and dragging our luggage around. It would be on a Monday.

 

Any brilliant ideas out there?

[Tee & Chilli]

Have you tried looking online for the Alaska railroad?

http://alaskarailroad.com/

 

Or the bus

http://www.alaskacoach.com/

Edited April 11, 2015 by TeeChi

[mapleleaves]

Options include:

-Alaska Railroad has 1 departure per day.... early morning

- Park Connection Bus has 2 departures per day

- Seward Buslines

- cruiseline transfer

- independent transfer

- Hertz rental car

[knbcruisers]

Alaska tours and travels runs shuttles to Seward and whittier. Don't have the link. It easy to find by searching. There are several companies that do this either direct or woth some tour stops along the way.

[treesah]

Thanks for the great info. Seward Bus Line will work out perfectly for us. Very grateful.

[JimAOk1945]

I have always booked the cruise line transfers whenever we fly somewhere to take a cruise.

 

In 2012 I booked the cruise line bus transfers for my wife and I for our Southbound cruise on Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Seas. We had about a one hour wait and took the opportunity to get a quick bite to eat at the airport food court before we got on the bus.

 

The ride down to Seward was comfortable. The scenery was beautiful. Our friendly bus driver was like a tour guide with bits of interesting information during the entire ride.

 

It was the same when we reached Vancouver on debarkation day. A short wait for all going on the bus to gather, then we were on our way to the airport.