1- or 2-Night Cabin Stay for Two w/ Optional Helicopter Ride at Knik River Lodge in Palmer, AK. Combine Up to 4 Nights.
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Rustic log-cabin lodge sits on a hill overlooking the Knik Valley; fresh-caught fish is served at the onsite restaurant
What You Get
Stay for two in a deluxe king cabin
- $99 for a 1-night stay (up to a $179 value)
- $119 for a 1-night stay with dining credit (up to a $219 value)
- $399 for a 1-night stay with helicopter ride and dining credit (up to a $889 value)
- $519 for a 2-night stay with helicopter ride and nightly dining credit (up to a $1,108 value)
Select options include:
- $40 nightly dining credit valid at onsite restaurant
- 30-minute helicopter ride with glacier landing
Policies and Fees
Book by: 5/22/15
Travel window: 9/1/15
- Cancellation policy and fees: all cancellations subject to fee of 5% Groupon price; 60-day cancellation notice of fee of 50% Groupon price applies
- Taxes: 5% tax not included
Hotel at a Glance: Knik River Lodge
Towering pine trees and snow-capped mountains sit right outside Knik River Lodge’s rustic cabins, which sit on a hill overlooking the Knik Valley. The setting is a pure, unspoiled wilderness, but lodgers here are hardly roughing it. There’s an onsite gourmet restaurant inside a yurt (select options include a daily dining credit), and the log cabins feature a private deck, down duvets, Keurig coffeemakers, and complimentary WiFi.
- Helicopter ride add-on: Select options of this deal include a helicopter ride over the glacial Alaskan landscape, with a landing on Knik Glacier.
- Dine safari style in a yurt lit by candle lanterns. Inside, chefs grill fresh-caught cedar-plank salmon and craft goat-cheese salads made with seasonal organic veggies.
- Dogsledding in summer is among the tours you can set up at the lodge. Other adventures include vertical ice-climbing, kayaking on a lake dotted with icebergs, or a guided photography tour.
- Rent a movie from the lodge’s DVD library.
- Four-peat: The lodge has earned TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence three years in a row
Palmer, Alaska: Alpine Glaciers and Abandoned Gold Mines
Alaska may have America’s most-spectacular scenery, and the area surround Palmer does nothing to dispel that notion. Fading red wooden barns from the 1930s dot Palmer’s green hillsides, which give way to jagged mountains. For a bird’s-eye view of the landscape, take a helicopter tour of the 6-mile-wide Knik Glacier. Another nearby spectacle is Hatcher Pass, less than an hour outside Palmer, where waterfalls rush over gigantic boulders. The pass is worth the trip just to see Independence Mine State Historical Park, where you can tour an abandoned gold mine and its surrounding Depression-era buildings.
While the natural scenery is the star, the town itself can play a complimentary role to any vacation. Downtown Palmer is pleasantly pedestrian friendly. Breathtaking mountains loom in the distance at the end of Main Street, where you can take some time to browse art galleries, sample homemade honey, and hear buskers strumming folk tunes.
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Other Details
Room Details
Deluxe King Cabin
- One king bed
- Standard occupancy: 2
- Maximum occupancy: 2
Hotel Policies
- Check in: 3 p.m.
- Check out: 11 a.m.
- Parking: free
- Rollaways: not available
- Smoking policy: no smoking inside the property
- Pet policy: pets are not allowed inside the property.
- Accessibility: handicap-accessible rooms are not available.
- Room upgrades: not available
Amenities
- Adventure tours available
- Onsite dining
- DVD library
- Free WiFi
Traveler's Tips
- The onsite restaurant reopens in May.
Getting There
- Nearest airport: Ted Stevens Anchorage International (ANC; 56 miles)
- Distance from Anchorage: 50 miles
Need To Know Info
- Promotional value expires May 22, 2015. Amount paid never expires.
- Must book by 5/22/15 or promotional value expires
- Valid for travel 5/15/15–9/1/15, depending on option purchased
- Limit 2 per visit
- Valid only for option purchased
- Reservation required, subject to availability
- All cancellations subject to fee of 5% Groupon price; 60-day cancellation notice of fee of 50% Groupon price applies
- Must be 18 or older to check in
- Credit card required at booking and check-in
- Must use promotional value in 1 visit
- Not valid with reward points
- 5% tax not included.
- Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.
- Learn about Strike-Through Pricing and Savings
About Knik River Lodge
Not every hotel keeps an on-site helicopter, but Knik River Lodge has a chopper on deck for flight-seeing tours that show off the surrounding Alaska wilderness. Located about one hour southwest of Anchorage, the inn manages to be both isolated in woods teeming with mountain goats and moose yet convenient to the big city. Likewise, its 15 cabins let guests rough it without sacrificing luxuries such as down duvets on king-size beds, free WiFi, and private decks overlooking the surrounding mountains.
Housed in a yurt, the hotel’s on-site restaurant draws inspiration from African safaris. Candle lanterns provide the ambient lighting, and the menu emphasizes its muscovi duck and beef wellington. As the restaurant gets its produce, meats, and seafood from local sources, the menu also changes based on seasonable ingredients, but the selection of local beers and wines remains a steady staple.
In addition to the helicopter tours, other activities available through Knik River Lodge include bear-viewing and wildlife photography outings. Join an Iditarod musher and his dog team in glacier dog sledding, a distinct Alaskan pastime. Participants dash over snow-covered mountain slopes with plenty of opportunities for taking photos and pointing confused Tour de France bikers in the right direction.