alaskacruise.jpgCelebrity 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.

alaska-bear.jpg* 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.