Hi James,

I think that doing the glaciers and the parks will be difficult to do over 7 to 9 days. Alaska is very large and these areas take time to traverse - forget doing it properly.

The park is relatively 'small' not in size, but because it has very limited transport. It can be done in about 3 days from Anchorage though you may want to be there longer. My opinion is that the minimum time to spend what you are talking about is two weeks.

I have never been there in September, but I would imagine that this is the time of year when things are starting to wind down.

I was looking in my CostCo travel guide the other day. They have cruises relatively affordably for 1 week starting at about 1500 dollars. What you get with that, I do not know. It may be worth the look though.

Lou