My husband and I had an awesome 8 day stay at Anchor Inn by the Sea. Mary was a wonderful host and warmly greeted us upon our arrival. She was quick to respond to any questions we had and provided us with excellent recommendations on sites to visit, restaurants to eat at, and really neat points of interest. We stayed in the Orca Suite and had the most incredible view of the sea. We saw and filmed a whale right from the expansive living room window our first morning there. The suite was well equipped and charming, located approximately 4 1/2 miles from Creek Street and downtown Ketchikan. We rented a car and easily navigated wherever we wanted to go during our stay. This was our first visit to Alaska in celebration of my husband’s upcoming 70th birthday and it has been a lifelong dream of his to catch a halibut and a salmon. I’m pleased to report we had an amazing day of fishing with Baranof Fishing Charters (also recommended by Mary) and caught 10 Pacific cod, 2 Halibut, a pink salmon, and a king salmon (we had to immediately release the king salmon because we are not Alaskan residents) but they were impressive! Baranof arranged to ship our fish home for us. During our stay, we got to see two bears at Herron Cove (also Mary’s suggestion), saw a melodrama play/musical, an annual favorite, the Pirate’s Daughter, at the Civic Center, went to the lumberjack show, and had wonderful meals at the Alaskan Fish House, New York Cafe, Salmon Falls Resort, and the Landings Diner,