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Airboat Alaska

5.0 (18 reviews)
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Our First Airboat experience with Captains Louis and Brian!
D E.

I highly recommend Airboat Alaska! The experience was amazing and breathtaking. The combination of taking a helicopter to the airboat, which enabled us to see a glacier up close, then return on the helicopter with enough time to land on the glacier and walk around, was beyond words. Our guides Louis and Brian were also as good as it gets, knowledgeable, entertaining and making safety a priority. If you get to Juneau, Alaska and looking for an amazing experience...try Airboat Alaska. You won't regret it.

Theresa B.

Best excursion ever worth every dollar. Brian and Louis and our pilot were awesome. Smooth helicopter ride. In addition to the awesome glacier view we also saw eagles and seals during the airboat ride.

freshly calved ice
jessica h.

My face still hurts from smiling for 3 straight hours. I am from Juneau and have done most of the tours in Southeast Alaska and Airboat Alaska is, by far, the most amazing Alaskan experience I have ever had. First of all, you get a beautiful helicopter ride over ridge lines full of mountain goats, bears and the most beautiful scenery in Southeast Alaska only to arrive at Julie and Brian's amazing piece of property. The helicopter lands on a teeny-tiny pad where Brian and his deckhand waiting to gear you up and walk you to the airboat. I have never been on an airboat so maybe it was just me, but I couldn't get over how much I felt like I was in a video game. I don't know if it was how unbelievably perfect the scenery was or the floating sensation you get from being on an airboat, or a combination of those things but it was so fun. We zoomed around so fast! It feels like you're hovering over the water. Our timing for taking the tour was really good because the glacier had just calved on it's west side and so we were able to see some crazy dark blue glacier ice. Brian got us within feet of it. After we checked out the west end, he zipped us all the way over to the other end, with some stops in between for admiring and photo taking. The airboat is pretty loud and you wear earmuffs while the boat is on so there isn't any chatting during the ride (just lots of silently mouthing "that is so amazing" and "this is so cool" to whoever is sitting next to you). After about 3/4s of the trip Brian turns the boat off and chats/answers questions about the glacier, the boat, and the history of the area. The time few by and we were headed back to the property to be picked up by the helicopter. We waved our goodbyes and were taken on a few minute ride to a flat part of the glacier where we landed, got out of the helicopter, wandered around, took tons more photos, and drank glacier water out of a moulin (so cool). Our Northstar helicopter pilot was also amazing. She was full of information about the area and glacial landscapes. Plus, she was crazy nice, friendly and easy to talk to. Clearly, I could go on and on about how much fun we had. I would do this tour again in a heartbeat.

Alex F.

My wife and I recently took a cruise to Alaska and booked the helicopter + airboat tour. Absolutely incredible experience. Our pilot and airboat team (Brian and Louis) were amazing guides. If you are vacationing in Juneau you have to check this place out--nothing compares to getting on the water right next to the glacier.

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Maria A.

Brian is a sweetheart and goes the extra mile to make sure you get your money's worth. He has an awesome piece of property and should be charging $1k a night because the location is out of this world. The boat is very comfortable and makes for great pictures. You get up close and personal. I would charge more money because we paid $1400 for the seaplane to view brown bears and I think you were a lot less.

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This was the perfect tour to get right up to the glacier!! We had a fantastic experience and highly recommend you do this when in Juneau!!

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Alaska Canopy Adventures

Alaska Canopy Adventures

4.8(36 reviews)
0.7 km

Even though I got stuck in the middle of a zip line, between our zip line adventure and our visit…read moreto the sled dog musher's camp in the same day, it was hard to imagine a more perfect day in Alaska. The trip here started with a motor boat trip past pretty pretty scenery (see the picture I uploaded of a stream trickling down the mountain) to an abandoned gold mine. So far it's sounding like a Scooby Doo episode, but sadly there's no Ghost of Yukon Joe scaring off young whippersnappers from stealin' his claim. From there you're driven in an ATV up the steepest incline ever (30 degrees?) to the zip lines. This was our first time ever zip lining and I was afraid I'd be afraid, but I felt very calm the entire time and very safe, and was more interested in looking around while in the air. We considered zip lining on our honeymoon in Thailand - I'm sure the place in Thailand was insured, right? - but we decided to do it in the States instead so we wouldn't die. Our two guides carefully showed us everything we needed to know and then we were off, flying through the rainforests. We were told some segments took 30 seconds to zip across. I'm not sure if that's an exaggeration or if time felt like it passed faster while we were doing it. The highest segment was 180 feet off the ground. So yeah, I did get stuck in the middle of one of the lines. My glove got caught in the mechanism at the top of the zip line. Thankfully I wasn't scared - I just thought it was funny - and one of the guides rescued me. Our group of 8 - 6 strangers and ourselves - was pretty awesome. It even felt like the instructors wanted to hang with us, like we were the coolest group ever. The instructors warned us about banging into each other since we're all attached to the same lines, and after that there were a lot of banging jokes. It was noted that if you don't move your hand away in time after zipping down one of the lines you could get "finger banged." Our guides were really fun and one (Tyler?) would punctuate sentences by suddenly flying off down a zip line. If you thought smashing a phone down was a good way to punctuate a sentence, you've never seen someone suddenly fly away. You can bring your camera (hence all my photos attached to this Yelp review). You can also have one of the guides shoot a video for you of what it's like to zip down one of the lines. At the end of the zip lines there's a really high suspension bridge that makes for great photo ops, and then you get to repel down from the platform. When it was all over we were given medals and a snack. We felt like contestants on The Amazing Race for the afternoon.

This was soooo much fun!! It was a rainy, cold day in…read moreJuneau, but I really feel like that made the experience even more memorable. Maggie and Riley were great guides through the course and encouraged anyone that was feeling a little scared. I mean, you're hundreds of feet up trees with a cable holding you! The excursion started with a a boat ride to the beach and then you take a short walk to the base camp to get all geared up and ready to go! After that, you take a ride in a Mercedes 4x4 truck, up the mountain not before you take a group photo, though : and from there you take a slightly steep short hike up the mountain to arrive at your 1st practice zipline. After you get the practice line out of the way, it's all awesomeness that follows! The views are amazing and the thrill of zipping on a 180ft line at 35mph is indescribable! Oh, and the suspension bridges are pretty awesome too...although they were the scariest part for me lol. My husband and 14 y/o daughter also did the excursion and loved it as well. We'd do it again and you won't regret taking a few hours out of your day to have this once in a lifetime experience! P.S. You even get a nice medal at the end of the tour to prove you "survived"! :) Great touch!

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Alaska Canopy Adventures - The ride to the top of the course!

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The ride to the top of the course!

Gray Line of Alaska

Gray Line of Alaska

2.0(4 reviews)
0.7 km

We arrived in Juneau via the Luminosa and we were taking an excursion that requires a bus ride to…read moreMendenhall Glacier. Our bus driver was Rick. I don't know if he was racist or sexist but he seemed to have an issue with black women. My cousin and I were two of three black females on the bus. When we got on the bus my cousin said hello he said NOTHING and wouldn't make eye contact. When he handed the white people their wrist bands they said thank you and he said welcome. We said thank you and he said NOTHING and he would not make eye contact. He said that he comes to Alaska to work during the tourist season from Arizona. I've been to Arizona a couple of times and everyone seemed friendly maybe Rick is from a part where his behavior is tolerated. I find it unacceptable no matter where you are from or where you are working! Lastly the bus sounded like it needed to be serviced. We feared we'd breakdown and not make it back to the port on time.

We cruised to Alaska on Holland America Cruises, on the Noordam ship. The cruise was great and the…read morestaff for the most part, were very friendly and detail oriented. The ship was immaculately clean, but the decor was worn out. Carpet on the stairs were thread bare and the upholstery in the dining areas (vinyl?) was all cracked and crinkling. The most disappointing part of the cruise was the hard sale tactics for purchasing a beverage package. The sale tactics were so intense and intimidating that we ended up purchasing a beverage package, only to be informed right before the charge was processed that we had to purchase two; one for each of us in the room. Now, to be transparent, each package was just over $400.00 for beverages for a 7 day cruise. And that was not even the most expensive package, and you had to purchase it within the first 48 hours of the cruise. So we did. And as it sunk in as to the cost and how much we would have to drink to even break even, we asked the service desk to reverse the packages and we would just pay for each drink. But unfortunately for us, we had waited until after the 48 hours and we were told, no way. When we returned from the cruise I wrote to HAL (Holland America Lines) and asked again that the charges be refunded, or at least refund one package (I totaled up all of our beverages and it was less than 400.00 for both of us). I also informed them that even with the two packages, they still managed to charge us another 30.00 for drinks. After waiting 4 weeks, i received an email reply and was told No Way in terms of any refund, however, they would reimburse us for the 30.00 that we were charged for drinks that should have been included in the beverage package. I responded to that email and said that was not satisfactory and that they need to consider what else they can do. It has been 6 weeks and counting since that email was sent. With all the cruise lines out there we will definitely cruise again, but not with HAL. Being taken once was enough and we can find a better experience on a newer, fresher ship without the hard sale tactics. Good Luck to those who choose HAL and Buyer Beware!!!

Juneau Sportfishing & Sightseeing - Hubs with a cod

Juneau Sportfishing & Sightseeing

3.0(12 reviews)
0.8 km

Booked the "Fins & Grins" excursion through Princess Cruise. The vessel We were on is called the…read moreEagle Scout skippered by Captain Luke and his Mate Deb who were absolutely amazing. Put us on the fish and absolutely wrecked the halibut and cod. Deb ran the back of the boat like it was her life's mission to ensure we all caught fish. The skipper put us on the fish and was a wealth of knowledge about the area, the regulations and was a damn good skipper. His communication skills with his guests was excellent and the communication between he and Deb should be TED Talk. We saw whales like we were on a whale watching boat, (they breached), sea lions and eagles. Really an excellent trip and we look forward to eating our catch when we get home. Honestly, even if we were unsuccessful with catching any fish, (it's called fishing, not catching), they still would have gotten an excellent review. This team was amazing.

Hey Yelpers!!! Wanted to post about my experience with Juneau Sportfishing. Booked the excursion…read morethrough my cruise ship (NCL). I had a great experience with this company. Captain Matt and deckhand Billy did an awesome job all around. Captain Billy was knowledgeable of the spots to look for fish and Billy was very fast at getting the lines in the water and helping us when we did hook up. When we were wrapping up, Billy prepped the fish we caught. If you are staying locally, you can just take them with you. I've f you are on a ship, like me, they have a company that will process and ship your fish home for you. It's not cheap, especially if you catch a lot of fish. You also have the option of releasing the fish you catch. That's up to you. The bus ride to and from the port was very nice. They still provide you with a snack bag of crackers, some different spreads (one was smoked salmon, another a soft cheese), and some sliced sausage. It was very nice. It was overall a great experience and I would definitely go out with Captain Matt again. I will end with this... My review is not based on how we did. It's fishing, and you gotta know going in that you might not catch anything. A guide should help your chances, but nothing is for certain. Go for the experience. Enjoy the beauty of Alaska and the wildlife that is around you. This is a good way to do it. Check them out! By the way, my group of 5 people did well...

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Juneau Sportfishing & Sightseeing - Photo of the boat's catch that we are shipping home.

Photo of the boat's catch that we are shipping home.

Juneau Sportfishing & Sightseeing - Photo with Mate Deb. She is BAD@$$!

Photo with Mate Deb. She is BAD@$$!

Juneau Sportfishing & Sightseeing - Photo with the Skipper

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Airboat Alaska - boattours - Updated October 2026

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