$100 a night in Anchorage? Holy crap! Granted things may have changed, but years ago when I was in Anchorage I thought it was basically an armpit (sorry Brian!).

However, there are many things to see and do outside of Anchorage and one thing I really enjoyed was taking a small plane from Valdez to Anchorage (I did Anchorage to Valdez in a fire truck that we picked up at the docks in ANchorage). Yeah, Valdez is nothing special either, but the view of the mountains from the plane were awesome.