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  • Home
  • Our Trips
    • Sea Kayak Day Tours
    • Glacier Hikes
    • Whitewater Rafting Trips
    • Sea Kayak Camping Trips
    • Multi-Sport Trips
    • Backpacking Trips
    • Alaska Mothership Charters
    • Wilderness Lodge Adventures
    • Kayak Rentals and Instruction
    • Alaska Water Taxi Services
    • Open Trips
  • Reservations
    • Reserve a Trip
    • Reservation Policy
    • Multi-Day Questionnaire
  • Resources
    • Lodging
    • Getting to Valdez
    • Gear Lists
    • Recommended Reading
    • Trip Conditioning
  • Company
    • About Pangaea
    • About Valdez, Alaska
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Equipment
    • Why Choose Pangaea?
    • Web Specials
    • Alaska Partners & Helpful Links
    • Employment
    • Meet Our Guides
    • COVID-19
  • Contact
    • Contact Pangaea
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    • Press Kit
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  • Book Now

Why Choose Pangaea Adventures?

We’re the Local’s Choice.

Valdez, AK Ice Climbing Guide

It’s all about Customer Service

Our customer service is unmatched by any other sea kayak company! The destinations we explore speak for themselves! We take your vacation very seriously and personally. When you have a good time, we have a good time. That is what it is really all about. Give us a call and sign up for the trip of a lifetime.

Here are just a few reasons to sea kayak in Alaska and travel with Pangaea!!!

1. Daily Departures (Expand)

We run our trips everyday, rain or shine! The only reasons Pangaea would ever cancel a tour would be due to severe weather in the Sound, or we do not meet our 4 person water taxi minimum (each situation is a rarity!). Please do keep in mind we cannot control Mother Nature!

2. Fresh Food Prepared by Caring Cooks! (Expand)

Our guides spare no effort in preparing the meals for an extended tour. All of our guides have a passion for healthy, hearty food with a zesty flare! We serve fresh vegetables, fish, and meats when ever possible. Typical breakfasts would be oatmeal pancakes, or smoked gouda cheese scrambles and fruit. Lunches of grilled vegetable sandwiches, garden burritos, or cold cuts; and there are always snack plates of smoked salmon, fine cheeses, fruit, and dips. Dinners are the highlight with fresh salmon or halibut, grilled chicken, vegetable risotto, salads, Thai cuisine, and other tasty options.

3. Current Member of Key Industry Organizations (Expand)

Alaska Tourism Industry Association (ATIA), Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau (ACVB), America Outdoors Association (AOA), Valdez Convention and Visitors Bureau (VCVB), Trade Association of Paddle Sports (TAPS)

4. Safety First (Expand)

Safety always comes first on our tours. We will go well out of our way for our guest’s safety, no matter the cost. Our guides and captains are trained and certified in Wilderness First Aid and CPR, our motor vessels are US Coast Guard inspected, and everyone at Pangaea is enrolled in a random drug-testing program.

5. Alaska's Best Reputation (Expand)

It’s true! It is common for people to travel around Alaska and hear our name in conversation. It is even more common to be recommended to us by folks who have joined our tours. For this reason, we are the top choice for cruise ships, bicycle companies, and other local tour groups for their sea kayaking excursions. Go with the reputation and come find out for yourself!

6. Best Value! (Expand)

Our guests expectations are often blown away by the services they receive for the prices they pay. We are competitively priced, but way ahead of the game when it comes to quality. We never cut corners on equipment, guides, or multi-day food.

7. Best Guide to Guest Ratio (Expand)

8 to 1 ratio or better on day tours. 4 to 1 ratio or better on overnight tours.

8. Fully Insured and Permitted (Expand)

In addition to meeting all insurance and business license requirements, we run US Coast Guard inspected water taxis, and we hold Special Use Permits issued by the US National Forest and Alaska State Parks, as well as a Commercial Use Authorization from the US National Park Service.

9. The Best Equipment (Expand)

We only use the best up-to-date and well-maintained gear. Check out our preferred gear in the above equipment tab.

10. A list of well-known business clients who choose Pangaea Adventures (Expand)

REI Adventures, Princess Tours, St. Elias Alpine Guides, AlaskaBike, Backroads, Ofer Gelmond Geo Tours, Copper Oar, Boy Scouts of America, All Alaska Tours, ASKJA REIZEN, Get up and Go Tours!, Camp Alaska, Green Tortoise, Trek America, Suntrek, Ruby Range Adventures, Skylar Travel, Expedia, Stan Stephens Cruises, Suntrek, AmeriCan Adventures, PEAK DMC, The World Outdoors, Alaska Alpine Adventures, AK Travel Connections, Explore Tours, Latitude Yukon Bookings, Tyee Travel, Travelounge, Toundra Voyages, Trails Reisen, Tsaina Lodge, Windigo Adventures, Alaska Outdoors, Alaska Wilderness Guides, My Way Alaska, Out in Alaska, Infinite Adventures, and dozens more! We thank each company for their support!

11. Inspected Vessels (Expand)

Both our water taxis are U.S. Coast Guard Inspected Vessels, we are all enrolled in a random drug-testing program, and so we are all held to the highest of safety and licensure standards.

Written Reviews in Top Travel Guides:

Frommers Alaska:

Day trips to Shoup or Columbia glaciers get you into more of the beautiful, remote country that makes Prince William Sound so exceptional.Pangaea Adventures (tel. 800/660-9637 or 907/835-8442; www.alaskasummer.com) offers guided sea kayaking from Valdez, or rentals for experienced paddlers (for whom the Sound is a paradise). They also offer multiday guided camping trips deeper into the Sound, or, for those who prefer a bed, lodge and “mother ship” expeditions, wherein clients paddle by day and stay on board or in a lodge at night. Pangaea offers many other services as well: water taxi and kayak drop-off, ice climbing and glacier hiking, river rafting, and even trips that combine these activities in the Sound and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Check out the website.

Lonely Planet “Alaska” Travel Guide

“Pangaea Adventures has received great reader recommendations for it’s guided tours”

Insiders Guide to Anchorage and South Central Alaska

“Sea kayaking, Backpacking and Multi-Sport Trips are among the specialties of this well established outdoor adventure company. With an average guide to guest ratio of 1:4 guests, Pangaea strives for a personal, informative wilderness experience.”

Moon Travel Guides Alaska

Pangaea Adventures listing a variety of trip options, highlighting the Columbia Glacier kayak day tour.

Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska

Pangaea Adventures are nice people, leading short trips to Duck Flats, slightly longer trips to Gold Creek, and full days to Shoup Glacier and Columbia Glacier.

Check out our reviews on TripAdvisor as well!

Certificates of Excellence
2014 – 2018
 

Pangaea Adventures Day Tours

 

Quotes From Our Guest Book

    • “Amazing experience! It’s so worthy 🙂 Great day & great crew!” –Susana & Simon from Spain

 

    • “I am from Utah, have traveled to many places and never have I been more impressed! I will always remember this once in a lifetime experience!” –Moe

 

    • “Glacier hiking was amazing. Another great experience from Pangaea. Great guiding Berto!” –Deanne & Andy

 

    • “Thanks for the great rafting! We had the best time. Thanks for paddling us through! We loved the waterfall :)” –Trina, Isreal

 

    • “Awesome tour! Thanks Zak and Pangaea! A return trip is a must!!!” –Richard

 

    • “Perfect day- glaciers, otters, great sights, friendly, helpful guides- loved every minute of it!” –Aileen, London

 

    • “Awesome tour! Beyond all my expectations. Mike & Parker were awesome guides and it was a beautiful 4 days packed with sights & sounds and really sweet camping spots. We were well fed and well taken care of.” –Elle & Grant, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

 

    • “Took to the water like fish! Megan was the perfect instructor. We had a blast and would do it again in a Texas heartbeat!” –Richard & Rose, El Paso, Texas

 

    • “This was a trip of a lifetime! Saw my first whale! Alaska offers so many opportunities for adventure & exploration, thank you for providing us with this extraordinary close-up experience with wild Alaska & the icebergs.” –Rocco & Kathe on their anniversary

 

    • “It was a really great experience… went rafting for the first time and LOVED it!!! I was thrilled with the action & adventure of it all. Plus the guides were really nice & helpful. Terrific trip!” –Jeanine & Mehdi

 

    • “Awesome trip white water rafting! Beautiful views, nice waves, great guides!” –Jim & Denita, Fairbanks, AK

 

    • “The trip surpassed all our expectations. We were sad it was over. Truly the trip of a lifetime.” –Mark & Valerie McClain – NYC

 

    • “Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. What a great wonderful experience. Beautiful place, otters, seals, and great people.” –Pat and Jamie, Lake Tahoe

 

 

Our Clients Tell The Story

Tracy M10/19/2019
5 star rating
Beautiful day on amazing adventure. We went on the Columbia Glacier day kayak tour. Amazing! Beautiful! Once in a lifetime experience. Our guide Chris was amazing. The... read moreWe went on the Columbia Glacier day kayak tour. Amazing! Beautiful! Once in a lifetime experience. Our guide Chris was amazing. The boat captain had great information on the area and made sure we stopped for all the wildlife otters, seals etc. We had a 2 person for my husband and I. read less
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