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A month ago, the draft cruise ship schedule for Wrangell showed 50 stops in town, with the two largest vessels able to accommodate 1,100 and 1,300 passengers and crew. But now, there's not much the community can do but wait to see whether or not smaller ships still come to town, said Stephanie Cook, executive director of the Wrangell Chamber of Commerce. A Feb. 4 decision by the government of Canada to keep its waters closed to cruise ship traffic through February 2022 blocks the larger vessels...
Cruise ship companies serving Southeast Alaska are taking reservations for the summer season after losing all of last year to the pandemic - but not all cruise lines will return this year. Windstar Cruises, which brought a 208-passenger ship to Wrangell about 10 times in 2019, had originally planned its first 2021 cruise out of Vancouver on May 20, an 11-day voyage scheduled to stop in Wrangell, Ketchikan, Juneau and Haines. The sailings would have continued throughout the summer with a larger...
While the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, across the country government authorities and businesses are discussing the idea of slowly reopening and getting things back to normal. In Wrangell, one of the many industries impacted by the virus is the tourist industry. Now that spring has begun, the time for cruise season is drawing ever closer. However, recent information provided by Economic Development Director Carol Rushmore shows that the cruise season, if there even is one this year, will have a...
As estimates for cruise ship tourists this year seem set to break records in Alaska, a new vessel will be making Wrangell a port of call this summer. Fresh from a six-month tour of Asian waters, the 212-passenger ship Star Legend will be arriving for the day this Friday. It will be the first of nine passes through Southeast for the vessel this summer, and the first season Seattle-based company Windstar Cruises will have operated in the state since its sailing ship Wind Spirit departed its waters in 1998. Windstar public relations director Mary...