Tracy Arm Alaska

[wdwfan]

I'm looking at the itineraries for the Alaska cruise and I'm not seeing Tracy Arm for the summer 2016 Alaska itineraries. Does Disney still do Tracy Arm? The itinerary on the DCL website shows 3 sea days instead. Is this something new? Thank you!

 

[Disneyteachers]

The itinerary for my August 1 sailing has day 3 (the Tracy arm day)blank. Granted I took a screen shot of it two wks ago. I just assumed that was the Tracy Arm Day.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I'm looking at the itineraries for the Alaska cruise and I'm not seeing Tracy Arm for the summer 2016 Alaska itineraries. Does Disney still do Tracy Arm? The itinerary on the DCL website shows 3 sea days instead. Is this something new? Thank you!

I believe one of those sea days is really cruising Tracy Arm.

 

[wdwfan]

Ok, I was just wondering why they took it off their site itinerary. I hope it doesn't mean anything.

 

[xlxo]

Perhaps including Tracy Arm in the itinerary makes it look like a port day. Some cruise lines brushes by Tracy Arm in the morning before running a small boat excursion deeper into the Arm to see Sawyer. This excursion rejoins the mothership in Juneau.

 

[Drusilla99]

I am going July 2016 & I just double checked my itinerary and day 3 is still listed as "Tracy Arm" under my check-in schedule. Hope that helps you out

 

[cdoc29]

The disney website under things to see and do for Alaska cruises says:

"Sawyer Glaciers
At the end of the fjord lays the translucent mountain masterpiece known as the Sawyer Glaciers, comprised of the North Sawyer and South Sawyer glaciers. These age-old massive ices sheets have a light-blue glow to them. The South Sawyer glacier alone stretches 1/3 of a mile and is a wonder to behold.

These glaciers offer a glimpse into a time so very long ago, when huge chunks of ice the size of continents swallowed up whole countries during the Ice Ages of the past. Once an hour, on average, slabs of these great glaciers calve and tumble into the saltwater below."

Sounds to me like they cruise all they way up to Sawyers glacier. If they don’t I would book with another line as that is one the of the main reason to me for doing an Alaska cruise.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

The disney website under things to see and do for Alaska cruises says:

"Sawyer Glaciers
At the end of the fjord lays the translucent mountain masterpiece known as the Sawyer Glaciers, comprised of the North Sawyer and South Sawyer glaciers. These age-old massive ices sheets have a light-blue glow to them. The South Sawyer glacier alone stretches 1/3 of a mile and is a wonder to behold.

These glaciers offer a glimpse into a time so very long ago, when huge chunks of ice the size of continents swallowed up whole countries during the Ice Ages of the past. Once an hour, on average, slabs of these great glaciers calve and tumble into the saltwater below."

Sounds to me like they cruise all they way up to Sawyers glacier. If they don’t I would book with another line as that is one the of the main reason to me for doing an Alaska cruise.

There are reasons they may not get all the way in. Icebergs is one. If there are baby seals on the ice floes, they can't enter either.

Here's an article about the baby seals:
http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2015-07-24/boats-seals-and-water-not-between

If DCL has to miss going all the way in, any other ship scheduled there that day will also not be able to enter.

 

[swooshbear]

We didn't encounter any baby seals, but we saw a ton of seals just hanging out on our first cruise to Alaska on Tracy Arm day.