THE SHIP Karen cruised with her husband, Tony, 16-year-old daughter Samantha and another family on

THE SHIP  Karen cruised with her husband, Tony, 16-year-old daughter Samantha and another family luxury hotels bath on Crystal Cruises Crystal Symphony ( crystalcruises.com ). They cruised for 12 nights from San Francisco to Alaska s Inside Passage.
It was a very exclusive excursion. Only 40 people out of the thousands of cruise passengers in port that day got to do it, says Karen. There were four seaplanes and we had our two families together in one, so it was like having our own private plane. luxury hotels bath My husband got to sit up the front next to the pilot.
We started with a scenic flight that took about 50 minutes, with the pilot talking to us through luxury hotels bath our headsets and explaining the topography. We flew over enormous white glaciers, and underneath where the ice had cracked they were a vibrant, electric blue. They re like massive frozen rivers that all of a sudden stopped flowing.
We flew to Taku Lodge, which is in Tongass National Forest and has an interesting history, including being used as a base for Alaskan dog breeding and sledding. It is accessible only by seaplane or small boat.