Every stay is a complete, full-service package: lodging, breakfast, and your round-trip out to the bears at Brooks Falls, all included.
Your activity days are included: bear viewing at Brooks Falls, or the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes tour in place of a day at the falls. Send an inquiry with your dates and group size and we'll put together the right fit and your exact price. Priced per person, double occupancy, with solo rates on request.
Now booking 2028. A $500 per person hold secures your dates.
Each activity day is yours to choose: the bears at Brooks Falls or the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes tour, both included. Most guests spend every day with the bears.
One activity day. Most guests spend it with the bears at Brooks Falls.
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Check DatesPrices shown are where 2028 rates start, per person, double occupancy. Your exact price depends on your dates, and some weeks run higher. Solo rates are on request. Tell us your dates and group and we'll send your exact number in writing.
Times below are estimates and weather dependent.
From the moment you book, we send you everything you need. Each activity day is yours to choose, Brooks Falls or the ranger-led Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes tour, and most guests spend their days at Brooks Falls. Here's how a typical three-night stay comes together.
Once you're booked, your confirmation email walks you through the whole trip: which flights to book, what to expect from the weather, what to pack, and our website guides on reaching Katmai and seeing the bears at Brooks Falls. A real person is always available for anything else.
We meet the afternoon Alaska Airlines arrival, around 5 PM, and get you checked in at the lodge. We run you into town for dinner each evening, and to the grocery store if you need it. Exact times follow once Alaska Airlines publishes its schedule.
Breakfast at the lodge, then out to the falls. We usually head out in the morning and are back in the afternoon or early evening, giving you roughly 6 to 8 hours at Brooks. These are estimates. Weather drives everything out here, and departure and return times can shift, sometimes at short notice.
Back to Brooks Falls, or trade the day for the ranger-led Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes tour. Every day is your call.
Breakfast at the lodge, then we leave at 11:00 AM to get you to your midday flight home.
Breakfast is served 7:00 to 9:00 every morning. This is an example: your days are chosen with us ahead of time, not day-of, and everything runs weather permitting. The logistics are handled, you just show up.
There are no roads into Katmai. Getting out to Brooks Falls is a flight, a room in a town most people have never heard of, and a weather-exposed trip out to the falls, strung together across five or more separate bookings that each have to go right. The risk isn't the cost. It's flying all the way to Alaska and getting weathered out without ever seeing a bear.
That's the part we do. You land in King Salmon and we take it from there: a riverfront room, your activity days at Brooks, and a backup if the floatplane can't fly. About 99% of our guests make it out to the falls. One booking instead of five, with bear viewing and the Valley included. You come for the bears. We handle Katmai.
There are two flights to book: the afternoon Alaska Airlines arrival into King Salmon, and the midday departure home. Those are the two we meet, they are the same for every guest, and once they are booked we handle the rest.
Rooms share two bathrooms. Guests must be 12 or older.
Book the afternoon Alaska Airlines arrival into King Salmon, the later flight of the day, which lands around 5 PM. That is the flight we meet, and we bring you straight to the B&B to settle in. Please do not book a Sunday arrival.
Check out by 11 AM. Book the midday Alaska Airlines departure out of King Salmon, the earlier flight out; we leave the B&B at 11 AM to connect with it, so your last morning is unhurried and you make your flight with room to spare.
Why these times are firm: it keeps the experience the same for every guest, and it gives us the window we need to reset the B&B for the next group. An earlier arrival or a later departure means no pickup for it and time spent waiting at the airport. No exceptions.
Your days at Brooks Falls are unhurried. A day at Brooks runs about six to eight hours, timed around the trip out over the tundra and back. That is your day with the bears.
Your first and last days are travel days. You arrive in the afternoon, settle into the B&B, and ease into the trip, then fly out around midday at the end. So a three-night stay gives you two activity days, with time on either side to land, unwind, and catch your breath before the long journey home.
With those two days, you get to shape the trip. Many guests spend both at Brooks Falls, and when the viewing is as good as it often is, no one regrets it. Others give a day to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes or to fishing the Naknek. Each is a trip of its own, so it is worth thinking about what you most want to see. Tell us, and we will build your days around it.
116 reviews across Google, Airbnb, TripAdvisor & Facebook, and the #1-rated B&B in King Salmon on TripAdvisor. Most guests arrive overwhelmed by the logistics of Brooks Falls, and leave wishing they'd booked more nights.
Send your dates and group size and we'll come back with the right package and a number, in writing, before you commit.
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