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The official booking receipt confirms Ovation of the Seas departing Seward at 8:00 PM on Sep 11, 2026.
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Seward, Alaska
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Getting there & around
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Ovation of the Seas is scheduled to depart Seward at 20:00 on Sep 11, 2026 — her final Alaska sailing of the season (7-Night Southbound Alaska & Hubbard Glacier, OV07A420).
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Seward on Resurrection Bay is the turnaround port for one-way Gulf of Alaska cruises, connected to Anchorage by rail and road at the gateway to Kenai Fjords National Park.
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Seward is Mile 0 of the roughly 2,000-mile Iditarod National Historic Trail — the gold-rush route to Nome — with the trailhead marker on the waterfront near the cruise dock.
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The Alaska Railroad Coastal Classic runs daily May 15-September 13, 2026 — Anchorage 6:45am to Seward 11:20am, $133 Adventure class / $277 GoldStar dome one-way — and cruise-tagged checked bags transfer directly to the ship at the dockside depot.
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Seward's Mount Marathon Race — born of a bar wager over whether the 3,022-foot peak could be climbed and descended in under an hour — has run every July 4 since 1915 and is the oldest mountain race in North America.
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In the March 27, 1964 Good Friday earthquake (M9.2 — the strongest ever recorded in North America), a kilometer of Seward's waterfront slid into Resurrection Bay, the fuel-tank farm ignited, and later tsunami waves arrived carrying burning oil.
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Seward's Dale R. & Carol Ann Lindsey Alaska Railroad Cruise Terminal opened June 10, 2026 — 41,500 sq ft with a double-berth floating pier and shore power, built under a 30-year Royal Caribbean agreement, with Ovation of the Seas as its inaugural homeport ship.