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Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie
Just had a breeze through the APT Tours (one of the largest tour companies in Australia) 2015 Canada/Alaska/USA brochure. Noticed for the first time in years all but one of the tours that include an Alaska cruise embark in Vancouver. The one that doesn't is Seattle of course. Over the past few years, even though Vancouver was included in almost every tour, about a third of cruise tours left from Seattle. It looks like more of an emphasis on Vancouver in general too as the rail or coach trips do loops through the Rockies so the origin and terminus of tours is Vancouver. Even those that include Eastern Canada you come back to Vancouver and fly from there. Too bad there cannot be cruises that do Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver as each place has so much to offer. But I realise the main destination of these cruises is Alaska and time is limited. Maybe do a two week cruise that includes more southern stops.
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Virtually all of the Seattle cruises do Victoria, a few will do a different Canadian port, Some antiquated US law that prohibits a foreign flagged ship from providing passage between two US ports. Due to the same law, when the bring the ships up at the start of the season they almost always do LA or San Francisco to Vancouver (sometimes with stops on the way up). The ones that will operate out of Seattle then usually do a Vancouver to Seattle cruise sometimes with a day in Victoria.
These repositioning cruses at the start and end of the season are dirt cheap. You can sometimes get a 3-4 day all inclusive cruise from LA to Vancouver for less money than flying.