drunkphotography
Jun 2021
I got super lucky here. I had some a group not show up to the tour, and another person, who was on the tour initially, had to leave after the Anchorage portion. So that made it really a private tour at that point. True to their word, Anchorage Downtown TourGroup will not charge you extra for it. I also got lucky because I got Russ Reno to take me, and he took us all over the place, up in mountain views of the whole Anchorage, beautiful scenes, layouts and reasons for things we saw in Alaska that made no sense us tourists. This really made my day, and he didn't cheat the experience just because I was solo at that point. The other thing that was special is I had done too many boat rides previously, so, Russ allowed me to switch to the Winter All In One itinerary, in a portion of the trip. Whittier's area is pretty cool, don't count it out, as I initially did, because it has gems there from knowledge you can learn, to photo ops. I had been on other tours, seeing some of the same areas as this tour, but the others kind-of skipped quite a few things, clearly, because I got to see almost triple the scenery with Anchorage Downtown TourGroup. I even got to eat Halibut fresh from the water in Whittier, with this tour. That's money well spent! I'll post some pics later.