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Holland America Celebrates Alaska Statehood with Onboard Credit Offer & Sparkly Giveaway

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It’s Alaska’s 66th birthday and Holland America Line is celebrating the milestone with a $50-per-person onboard credit and the chance for you or your clients to win a commemorative pendant necklace inspired by Alaska wildlife.

Holland America, which has been exploring the 49th State for more than 75 years, is offering guests who book a cruise from Jan. 3-5, 2025, a $50 onboard credit per person. This is on top of up to $400 in onboard spending credit available per stateroom during the Start Your Journey sale, which runs through Feb. 28. This offer provides guests who book select spring 2025 through spring 2026 cruises with the Have It All premium package a free stateroom upgrade in select categories, reduced fares, free or reduced kids cruise fares and 50 percent reduced deposits.

The cruise line is also celebrating Alaska Statehood Day with an exclusive giveaway in partnership with Effy Jewelry. Starting Jan. 3, 2025, anyone can enter to win a commemorative blue topaz whale’s tail pendant, valued at $1,500. This piece, incidentally, is available only from Holland America Line. The deadline to enter for a chance to win is Jan. 10, 2025.

New Alaska Itinerary

Holland America Line has debuted the 18-day Great Barrier Rainforest and Alaskan Explorer itinerary for 2026 (Sept. 16-Oct. 4). Sailing roundtrip from Vancouver on board Zaandam, highlights include calls in eight ports in Alaska, including an overnight in Anchorage; an 11-hour call in Prince Rupert, BC, where guests can take more shore excursions into the Great Bear Rainforest if they want more chances to see the Spirit Bear; scenic cruising of both Hubbard Glacier and Glacier Bay; two days scenic cruising of Seymour Narrows, Bella Bella, Grenville Channel, Great Bear Rainforest, Princess Royal Island; and a full day of scenic cruising of the Inside Passage.