August 07, 2013, 2013
Wednesday PM

My daughter, her husband and my two grandsons recently visited Ketchikan. After driving from Phoenix to Bellingham, they arrived on the M/V Columbia with a camper on their truck and a dog. The round trip cost on the AMHS? I was shocked and appalled. $3,831.00. Thank goodness the driver rides free. Individual fares were $239.00. The dog was $25.00. The camper was $994.00.

There were no staterooms available on the trip up, but they did manage to reserve one for the return trip ($359.00). The "marine highway" in Southeast Alaska, where we have no choice but to fly or ferry, doesn't seem to have lived up to the expectation that it would be an alternative to Alaska Airlines. Both of them get us coming & going.

Chris Elliott
Ketchikan, Alaska

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