Celebrity Cruises has just announced it’s 2009 Alaska season with innovative itineraries, including the cruise industry’s first round-trip Alaska cruise out of Los Angeles.

Highlights of the season include:

*  Three Celebrity ships, Infinity, Mercury and Millennium, sailing from five ports, will offer passengers an upclose encounter with Hubbard Glacier, the only advancing glacier in the state.

*  Celebrity Mercury will make a 14-night voyage sailing round-trip from Los Angeles on April 27, stopping at five Alaska ports plus Seattle and Victoria.  Immediately following that cruise, Mercury will make a 13-night voyage from Los Angeles to Vancouver.

* Celebrity Millennium will sail the line’s first ten-night itinerary round-trip from Vancouver on September 18, visiting six Alaska and one Canadian port. 

* During September and October, Celebrity Mercury will make three- and four-night Pacific Northwest cruises from Seattle with port calls at Nanaimo and Victoria, British Columbia.

 * During the May through September season, Celebrity Infinity will depart Fridays round-trip from Seattle visiting Juneau, Ketchikan, Alaska and Victoria.  Most sailings will also call at Icy Strait Port, Alaska’s only wilderness port.  Celebrity Mercury will depart Sundays on round-trip cruises from Vancouver whil Celebrity Millennium will sail between Seward, Alaska and Vancouver, British Columbia departing every Friday.

* Celebrity Mercury will make an 11-night wine cruise Oct. 12 sailing from Vancouver and San Diego.

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