If you are looking into an Alaskan cruise on the Wonder and can travel any dates, you will find lower prices at the beginning and the end of the season. This is when the children are finishing up one school year or starting the next. We, personally, took the 9-night Alaskan cruise on 7-24-2017, and we cannot recommend it enough. It is an extra two days, and it visits the new port of Icy Strait Point, as well as cruising Hubbard Glacier. It is worth it just to go to Hubbard Glacier, which is an active glacier. It also goes to Ketchikan, Juneau, and Skagway, as well as cruising Endicott Arm. Hubbard Glacier was the highlight of this cruise for us, and it is only offered on the 9-night cruise itinerary. I believe this cruise sails earlier in July next year. This cruise also spends an entire day in Juneau, Alaska's capital city, as opposed to just the morning that it spends there on the 7-night Alaskan cruises.