The bucket-list cruise holiday with sea lion spotting, gold-panning activities and onboard champagne waterfalls

IT was the TV show Ice Road Truckers that got me interested in Alaska. 

Who wouldn’t want to drive a lorry across frozen lakes? 

Princess Cruises are known to be specialists at Alaskan cruisingSupplied Ketchikan, our first stop, is an important breeding ground for salmon and has a strong Alaska Native culturePrincess Cruises

But, as a bucket-list trip, I decided a seven-night cruise to Alaska’s Inside Passage on the Discovery Princess was a far more comfortable way to...