My father and I took a ferry from Juneau to Haines along the Alaska Marine Highway System in the Inner Passage. It only took 4 hours. However, we talked to other passengers who were taking the whole trip from Seattle to Skagway, which is over 80 hours long. The ship doesn't sail that whole time; sometimes it is docked overnight.
The cool thing about this is that you can either rent a cheap room on board or you can pitch a tent on the Solarium deck, which has heating lamps. Also, the movie theater becomes "the reclining room" at night so that people can sleep there if they like. There is a restaurant on board and a cafeteria. There are bathrooms and showers. Plus, there's ranger on board who gives talks about glaciers and whales and lighthouses and other things that you see along the trip. This seems like it would be a much cooler way to see the Alaskan coast than a posh cruise ship. Also, because a ferry comes every few days it makes sense that one would be able to get off the boat, visit a city for a while, and catch another ferry later.
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