Extended family and friends have a 7 day cruise to Alaska 8/1/08 as a bar mitzvah celebration. Please recommend the top three must do port activities for 13 year olds?

Welcome to cruise-chat.

Which cruise specifically? We need to know the ports that will be visited.

Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Icy Straight Point, Anchorage

You'll get answers all over the place on "the top three", since this is so subjective. In Skagway I'd say the White Pass railroad trip. In Juneau one of the dogsled tours on Mendenhall Glacier. In Icy Point kayaking or fishing. In Ketchikan one of the zipline tours.

We have an Alaska tour expert here - CanCanCase is the user name. Hopefully he will weigh in with some good advice.

Many thanks -- a terrific place to begin.