Published on Jan, 2025
Juneau Private Tours by David Harman
In August of 2024, my husband and I toured w David Harman’s Juneau Private Tours on what was only 1 of 30-35 sunny days in Juneau. He was our guide himself. It was a stellar tour and we recommend him to anyone. We were in port on a cruise ship and could have taken a complementary tour but my husband had just finished radio-surgery for lung cancer and I didn’t want him to be plagued w 10 other travelers.
David’s communication was timely and helpful. We were so comfortable just communicating long distance with him, we felt like he was an old friend. In fact, we invited his wife to join us for the tour and dinner afterwards as our guests. She had a conflict and my husband was done, (as in stick a fork in him,) when the tour concluded, so it worked out though.
We had a few specific places we wanted to visit and David graciously worked them in. He stopped when requested, for us to, “flatten our bladders,” and “round them out again” with cold bottled water along the way.
He gifted us a package of fudge, from the Alaskan Fudge Company on South Franklin Street in Juneau. Delicious stuff, which we loved so much, we wished we’d have been up to going to the shop near the wharf to buy more to take home to our friends.
David Harman of Juneau Private Tours is an experienced and thoughtful host, who quietly ensured my husband was comfortable, but didn’t feel like he was given special attention for being frail.
We saw amazing creatures in their natural habitat and learned much from his exceptional knowledge and vignettes that brought the city, the Alaskan Rain Forest, the glaciers, the lifestyles of the locals, and the native peoples, to us with a deeper knowledge than we expected.
He knew where to pull off to get incredible photographs and offered to take them for us. As I flipped through those pictures from from our day there, my husband laughed over and over as I stopped on several and commented on how stunning the scene was, or how perfect the light was caught, and how clean the perspectives were. Then I’d state, “Oh, David took that one.”
He has an avocation and future as a photographer that will match anyone showing in any gallery around the world.
We were thrilled that we had him and no other guests on our tour. With the time saved by not de-boarding and rebording a crowd, he was able to take around the sites to give us a view others on our ship did not get to see.
We could not have put a price on what the tour was worth to us. It was the highlight of our cruise and we look forward to returning to Juneau to see him and new sights again.
We heartily recommend him to any travelers, e. g., young families, elderly people, groups traveling together; and do so without reservation.
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