Camp Alaska - With 12 Others!
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, March, 1999 by Ellen R. Shapiro
What happens when you cross a unique mode of inexpensive, personalized transportation and touring with an extraordinary destination? You get CampAlaska - the pioneer of Alaskan cooperative camping vacations.
All summer long, Alaska is flooded with travelers. Some will see a sterilized and often overpriced Alaska via cruise ship (costing an average of $200 per day, not including airfare, a multitude of port charges, price-gouging shore excursions, and hidden extras), surrounded by hundreds, if not thousands, of fellow passengers. Or, they'll "do" Alaska by tour bus (at an average of $175 per day), along with 44 other sedentary sightseers. Either way, their travels will be limited to the places where gigantic ships can dock and/or hotels have been built. A smaller number of smart buyers will pay a great deal less (for example, $675, or $84 per day, plus a one-time $75 food contribution, for an eight-day "Northern Lights & Hot ...