Oceania Cruises adds longer sailing in Alaska

Oceania Cruises is making a last-minute switch to its 2013 schedule to add a longer sailing in Alaska.

The upscale line says it is replacing two previously announced seven-night Alaska voyages scheduled for June with a single 14-night sailing to the state. The roundtrip voyage out of Seattle will take place on Oceania's 684-passenger Regatta and feature calls at Kodiak, Hoonah and Seward in Alaska as well as a stop at Alaska's Hubbard Glacier.

Oceania also has amended the Regatta's June 28 and July 5 sailings to Alaska to begin and end in Seattle. The June 28 trip originally was scheduled to begin in Seattle and end in Vancouver, B.C. The July 5 trip originally was scheduled to begin in Vancouver and end in Seattle.

Oceania says the changes were made based on feedback from customers and travel agents.

The line offered 14-night sailings to Alaska in 2011 -- its first year operating in the state -- but had eliminated such longer voyages to Alaska for 2013 as it shifted to shorter seven- to 10-night trips.

Oceania president Kunal Kamlani told Paste BN earlier this year that customers had told the line they wanted shorter trips to Alaska.