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The first cruise ship of the season is set to dock in Juneau on Monday, April 27.<\/p>\n

The Cruise Line Agencies of Alaska shows a Eurodam cruise ship will be arriving in Juneau Monday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. It’s followed by near-daily cruise ship dockings until the end of September. Only Wednesday, April 29 and Sunday, May 3 show no cruise ships docking.<\/p>\n

However, the 2026 season comes with some limits.<\/p>\n

The City and Borough of Juneau signed voluntary, nonbinding agreements with Cruise Lines International Association to cap ship traffic<\/a>. A five-ship daily limit is already in effect, and starting this year, there will be a daily cap of 16,000 cruise passengers, with a 12,000 limit on Saturdays.<\/p>\n

In January, the City and Borough of Juneau released a Juneau Tourism Survey report<\/a>, following a phone survey in November 2025.<\/p>\n

There were 1,712,600 cruise ship passengers in Juneau in 2025, but that was a 1% decrease from the previous year. However, cruise ship passenger volume has more than tripled, at 350%, between 1995 and 2025.<\/p>\n

The survey also found that 60% of respondents wanted the City and Borough of Juneau to keep the five-ship limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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