You can also buy items like salads, yogurt, sandwiches, juice, sodas, desserts and snacks. The cafeteria accepts Mastercard and Visa credit cards, but you'll need to have your credit card imprinted at the purser's desk first. Checks from Alaska banks are accepted. If you're aboard the Columbia, you have the option of eating in the full-service dining room. Passengers can bring food onboard, but it must be kept in their cabins or on the solarium, and they aren't allowed to cook over camp stoves or burners.
Some ferries have bars and most of the bars have pianos.
In Southeast Alaska, the Columbia, Malaspina, Matanuska, Taku and Kennicott have bars. In the southwest system, it's the Bartlett and Tustumena. Alcohol consumption is limited to the bars. Smoking is limited to the decks and posted areas only. All contents Copyright 2001 Morris Digital Works and The Juneau Empire.