Child care in Skagway? (for sale, daycares, live)

[krumlovgirl]

Hi! We might have a job offer in Skagway and were wondering about childcare before we get too attached to the position. We have a two year old son and wondered if there were any daycares and what they might be like or if it would be better to look at a private person...

[Metlakatla]

Little Dippers Daycare in Skagway is pretty good.

[krumlovgirl]

Do you have any idea what the rates are?

[warptman]

Call them!

Little Dippers Daycare

23rd & Main Street,
Skagway, AK 99840
(907) 983-2667

[rotorhead]

If you're considering moving to Skagway you'll want to check out the housing situation very carefully as well. Although the full-time population is only 7-800 people, the town's population swells to more than 2500 during the summer tourist season. That's NOT counting the tourists on the cruise ships, which may number 10-12,000 on a busy day. A lot of the seasonal employees end up in some pretty cruddy housing, and some of them are probably no better off than the poor souls were in the gold rush era. There's a whole district of soggy tents and moldy trailers that springs to life in the summer, and some employers there are very...flexible...in what they consider "adequate" housing.

BTW, regular single-family detached house-type housing is NOT cheap there. There is very little for sale at any one time, even by rural, small town Alaska standards.

[krumlovgirl]

Thanks for the advice. I've actually been interviewed for a full-time, non-seasonal position and they've offered us "family housing" until something else becomes available. We've lived all over the world in strange places so we can rough it for a bit if need be. :-) I actually thought we might have to take our tents and coolers. I was asking about daycare costs because I pay Kentucky rates-$115 per week. I had no idea what other places were like.