Check out the Great Alaskan TourSaver book, which offers more than 130 travel deals in the 49th state, each and every one of them a buy-one-get-one-free moneysaver. I haven't added everything up myself, but the publisher claims the total dollar value of the offers at $26,000 -- so it should, in theory, be fairly easy for a couple to offset the book's $99.95 price tag.

The deals run the gamut, from hotels and transportation to whale-watching cruises, day trips, and short tours -- many of the latter of which are offered by the cruise lines at regular (i.e., not two-for-one) rates. By booking a few of your shore excursions independently and using these coupons, you could save a bundle.

Offers that are particularly noteworthy and/or familiar for cruise passengers include:

• Temsco Helicopter Tours of Mendenhall Glacier, outside Juneau
• Admission to Anchorage's Alaska Native Heritage Center
• Rail travel between Anchorage, Talkeetna, and Fairbanks
• Admission to Seward's Alaska Sealife Center
• Float trips on the Kenai River
• The Bear Creek Zipline Adventure in Ketchikan
• Whale watching and day tours in Glacier Bay National Park
• Portage Glacier Cruises, outside Anchorage
• Rides on the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Juneau
• Stays at Princess's Copper River, Kenai, and Denali wilderness lodges
• Passage on the riverboat Discovery
• Sled Dog Summer Camp in Sheep Creek Valley, Juneau
• Misty Fjords Flightseeing with Taquan Air
• Halibut fishing in Homer and Seward with Ninilchik Charters
• Air travel from Fairbanks to Barrow with Era Aviation

All in all, a pretty impressive package. My coupon-clipping grandmother would have loved it.