  Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger Post Number: 383 Registered: 05-2006 |
I just saw this blurb in "Budget Travel" Magazine. It looks like when (if ever) the Port-Authority Terminal gets built it will receive little use. Cruising to a Finish When we featured Hapag-Lloyd's Great Lakes cruises last summer, we had no idea that their sailing days were numbered: After seven years of falling water levels, the lakes are becoming too shallow for the company's Columbus. The ship's draft is now too big to enter ports such as Sault Ste. Marie. This fall will be the last foreseeable chance to sail on the Columbus through all five lakes on one of its three itineraries departing from Chicago or Toronto (depending on date). $2,315 Includes 10 or 11 nights (varies by date), all meals and lectures on board, and port taxes. When: Sept. 17 (from $2,315); Sept. 27 (from $2,520); Oct. 8 (from $2,420). SS: From $745. Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, 877/445-7447, www.hl-cruises.com. Here's a link to a thread with some pictures of the Columbus. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/89914/99362.html?1176320 918 | ||
Rsa Member Username: Rsa Post Number: 1174 Registered: 10-2003 |
wow; that's interesting. i had heard that they were doing a refit on the columbus and then it's be back in a few years. i can't remember where i saw the article, but it was on great lakes cruising. of the two other cruise ships on the lakes, one other will be gone next season leaving only one ship to cruise the lakes. |
