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Here's some advice: When you travel, you should want to feel as though you've really gone somewhere. Try to eat with the locals and stay in lodgings with local character. Here is a list of unique, authentic places for visitors to Alaska.
- Oscar Gill House (Anchorage): It's not grand, but this is the oldest house in Anchorage. In fact, it predates the city — it was moved here by one of the early mayors. Lovingly restored, yet retaining a homey, lived-in feel, the house now offers bargain bed-and-breakfast accommodations.
- Alyeska Prince Hotel (Girdwood): Alaska's grandest luxury hotel, an hour from Anchorage, has a one-of-a-kind location in an unspoiled mountain valley among huge spruce trees. Skiers can go right from the door to Alaska's best slopes, and in the summer, the aerial tram is an easy way for anyone to experience the crisp air and magnificent views of an Alaska mountaintop.
- Land's End Resort (Homer): The hotel is charming, but the location is what makes it unique. Land's End Resort sits at the very end of a 5-mile-long point of land into Kachemak Bay, one of Alaska's most beautiful and ecologically productive bodies of water. You can walk from your room to fish for salmon, or sit back and watch sea otters swim by.
- Aurora Express Bed and Breakfast (Fairbanks): A family hauled a collection of railroad cars — plus a locomotive and caboose — up a mountain south of Fairbanks and remodeled the interior into a collection of accommodations, some too cute for words, others heavily nostalgic for those who remember the golden age of rail.
- Pearson's Pond Luxury Inn and Adventure Spa (Juneau): This remarkable inn, tucked away in a residential subdivision near the Mendenhall Glacier, is so full of amenities and attractions it would take pages to describe it all. But the essence of it is simple: a sensual retreat for romantic stays when your goal is to be utterly pampered.
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