Hotels in Juneau
Lodging rates are high and room reservations tight in Juneau. The Juneau Convention and Visitors Bureau's Juneau Guide & Travel Planner and website contain listings of the hotels and B&Bs with links (www.traveljuneau.com; tel. 888/581-2201).
Near downtown, but a long walk from the sights, try the Breakwater Hotel (www.breakwaterinn.com; tel. 800/544-2250 or 907/586-6303) to save money on a clean standard room. The rectangular building overlooks the boat harbor. Rates are $89 to $119 double in the high season.
Camping
Juneau has two exceptional Forest Service campgrounds open from mid-May to mid-September. For information, call the Juneau Ranger District (www.fs.fed.us/r10/tongass; tel. 907/586-8800). The Mendenhall Glacier Campground, overlooking the lake and glacier and next to the Mendenhall River, is the best-built public campground in the state, with granite-block construction. The bathrooms have showers and flush toilets, and there is a half-mile disabled-accessible nature trail. The 69 sites are huge and broadly separated; nine have full RV hookups, and another nine have electricity and water. Tents and RVs are segregated. To get there, turn north on Montana Creek Road from Mendenhall Loop Road. Tent sites are $10, RV sites $26 and $28. The 11-site Auke Village Campground, 1 3/4 miles north of the ferry dock, is in an extraordinary place, with sites among large trees along an ocean beach, looking out on the islands of Auke Bay. The campground, reconstructed in 2006, has vault toilets and running water. Sites are $10 per night.
Spruce Meadow RV Park, 10200 Mendenhall Loop Rd. (www.juneaurv.com; tel. 907/789-1990), has the good qualities of a public campground, with wooded and open sites in a forested area near the glacier. It's on the city bus line, making transit easy after parking your rig. The park offers extras such as cable and free Wi-Fi. Full hookups are $32 for up to two adults and children 12 and under, $2 per extra adult, tenting $20. Reserve ahead.
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Alaska's Capital Inn
The owners poured themselves into a detailed restoration of this gold rush–era mansion. Staying here would be like living in a luxurious museum if not for this couple’s extraordinary hospitality and warmth and wonderful breakfasts (they make all the opulence feel quite homey). Their…$$$Around Town
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Auk Village Campground
The 11-site Auke Village Campground is a remarkably good place to pitch a tent. Ten miles north of the ferry dock, the campground is set among large trees on an ocean beach. The campground was once the site of a Tlingit Native village.$North of Juneau - Hotel
Frontier Suites Airport Hotel
This is where to stay if you want a good room for a reasonable price and don’t need to be in walking distance of the sights. Every unit is large and has a full kitchen. Pizza and pasta restaurants are on-site, as well as outdoor recreation areas, including a playground and a…$Near the airport - Hotel
Goldbelt Hotel Juneau
The Goldbelt provides an airtight level of quality hard to find elsewhere in Juneau. A $2-million redo has this hotel on the waterfront boasting contemporary guest rooms with amenities that include flatscreen TVs, iPod docking stations, and Keurig coffee machines. The rooms were…$$Around Town - Hotel
Juneau International Hostel
This volunteer-operated nonprofit hostel is exceptionally well built and cared for. Guests pay little, but are expected to pitch in with chores and are locked out during the day. Reservations must be prepaid by mail or phone for a 5-night maximum stay. Shoes are removed at the door.$Around Town - Campground
Mendenhall Glacier Campground
At the Mendenhall Glacier Campground (take Mendenhall Loop Road to Montanan Creek Road to Skaters Cabin Road) you can unzip your tent flap and ponder the glacier across the lake before you even crawl out of your sleeping bag. This beautiful campground, one of the nicest in the state,…$Mendenhall Valley - Hotel
Pearson’s Pond Luxury Inn & Adventure Spa
No longer recognizable as the suburban house it began as, the inn is a retreat of rooms with every conceivable amenity—a collection of honeymoon suites all in one building. We're talking canopy beds, Jacuzzis, working fireplaces, high quality mattresses. If it's conducive to romance,…$$$Mendenhall Valley - Hotel
Prospector Hotel
It’s nothing fancy, but the Prospector is a comfortable hotel on the waterfront right next to the new Alaska State Museum. This is good and bad news, because construction at the museum is expected to be ongoing (during limited hours) until it reopens in 2016. Still, the hotel serves…$$Waterfront - Hotel
The Driftwood Lodge
Stay here for a bargain on a basic room right downtown. The building is made of cinderblocks with old-fashioned motel entrances, but rooms are clean and the rates and courtesy van save significant money. They rent bicycles, too.$Around Town - Hotel
The Silverbow Inn
Next door to the Silverbow Bakery & Cafe, the oldest operating bakery in Alaska, this boutique hotel is run by the same owners (a husband-and-wife team) with casual but thoughtful hospitality. The highlight is a hot tub on a deck overlooking downtown Juneau. The building dates to…$$Downtown - Hotel
The Westmark Baranof Hotel
When the Baranof Hotel, now the Westmark Baranof, was built in 1939, she was the grand hotel in Territorial Alaska. Now she’s a dimly-lit reminder of a grand hotel, filled with standard burgundy-and-cherrywood chain hotel décor, sub-standard sized rooms, and a steady procession of…$Town Center
