Apr 22, 2008
Were you aware that a riverboat resembling those that sail the Rhine and the Danube, is also making river cruises in the U.S.?
I have reported so frequently about my recent cruise on the Rhine that I should mention, in fairness, that we also have river cruises in the United States. And these are not limited to the quaint, antebellum-like American Queen and Mississippi Queen paddlewheelers-with-calliopes, but to a giant modern boat the length of a football field known as the R/B River Explorer, now enjoying its 10th anniversary. It sails on both the upper and lower Mississippi, on the Ohio River, the Cumberland River, and the Texas/Louisiana Intracoastal Waterway, among others, and services such major ports as St. Louis, Cincinnati, Nashville, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Galveston and Brownsville, Memphis and Louisville, Kentucky, at rates averaging around $300 a day per person for all-inclusive arrangements and large cabins.
The cruises are generally of 7, 8 and 12 days' duration; and to book them, you go to www.riverbarge.com.
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The cruises are generally of 7, 8 and 12 days' duration; and to book them, you go to www.riverbarge.com.
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