Puffin Inn

Anchorage


Anchorage’s best late-night-airport-arrival motel. It has four tiers of fine rooms, from 26 sardine-can economy rooms ($160) to full suites with hot tubs and hideaway kitchens, all accessible via free 24-hour airport shuttle.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Anchorage attractions

1. Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum

1.14 MILES

On the south shore of Lake Hood (the world’s busiest floatplane lake), this museum is a tribute to Alaska’s colorful Bush pilots and their faithful planes…

2. Earthquake Park

1.72 MILES

For decades after the 1964 earthquake, this park remained a barren moonscape revealing the tectonic power that destroyed nearby Turnagain Heights. Today…

3. Alaska Heritage Museum

1.74 MILES

Inside the midtown Wells Fargo bank, this museum is home to the largest private collection of Alaska Native artifacts in the state and includes costumes,…

5. Delaney Park

2.64 MILES

Known locally as the Delaney Park Strip, this narrow slice of well-tended grass stretches from A to P Sts between W 9th and W 10th Aves; there’s an…

7. Oscar Anderson House

2.84 MILES

Housed in the city’s oldest wooden-framed home, this little museum overlooks the delightful Elderberry Park. Anderson was the 18th American settler to set…

8. Resolution Park

2.96 MILES

At the west end of 3rd Ave, this small park is home to the Captain Cook Monument, built to mark the 200th anniversary of the English captain’s ‘discovery’…