#6 of 17 top-rated excursions

Whale Watching and Sentinel Island Lighthouse

This boat trip pairs a whale search with a landing at Sentinel Island, where you can walk around the old light station and see displays about its history.

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By Greg Peters, editor · Updated October 2026 · Ratings checked October 18, 2026

#6 Highly rated · ranked 6 of 17 Juneau excursions

This boat trip pairs a whale search with a landing at Sentinel Island, where you can walk around the old light station and see displays about its history. It is one of the few ways for a cruise visitor to set foot on an Inside Passage lighthouse.

Tour details

OperatorJuneau Lighthouse Tours (Alaska Galore Tours)

TypeHistory

How longAbout 4 hours 15 minutes

SeasonSummer cruise season; dates not stated on the pages checked

Good forHistory buffs and repeat Alaska visitors. Stroller-friendly; not wheelchair accessible.

Rating5 / 5 from 599 reviewsViator (Viator and Tripadvisor reviews combined), checked October 18, 2026

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Times and policies from viator.com, tripadvisor.com, checked October 18, 2026. They change; the booking page has the final word.

All sales are final. A reviewer reported that rough seas meant viewing the lighthouse from the boat instead of landing.

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How we ranked it

On October 18, 2026, we looked up every Juneau excursion on Viator, Tripadvisor and GetYourGuide and noted its star rating and number of reviews. We used the numbers for the specific tour, not an operator's total across everything it sells. Because Tripadvisor reviews also show up in Viator's totals, each tour gets a single Viator or Tripadvisor figure, with GetYourGuide counted on its own. We sorted tours into rating bands first, then put the most-reviewed tours at the top of each band, so a new tour with a few five-star reviews doesn't jump ahead of one with thousands of strong ones. The Goldbelt Tram was closed on the day we checked, so it isn't ranked. Reviews stay on the sites that host them; the links take you there. Operators can't pay to be listed or to move up.

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