  Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 773 Registered: 01-2006 |
Im sitting on the tip of Belle Isle right now and there i what appears to be a sizable cruise ship docked on the Canadian side of the straights. Is this part of a regular service? I have not seen such ships here before. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1423 Registered: 04-2006 |
Yes. There have been cruise ships on the river for years. | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 593 Registered: 08-2007 |
Is it the Christopher Columbus? It has an orange stack and an orange stripe around it just below the rail. Four decks above the rail and one windowed deck below the rail. | ||
Awfavre Member Username: Awfavre Post Number: 149 Registered: 08-2005 |
That is the M/V C. Columbus. http://www.greatlakescruising. com/columbus/ She’s here for a day stop in Windsor. She arrived around 0800, & is due out around 1900 (7 pm). Her next stop is Tobermory, ON, & she’ll eventually tie up in Chicago. Sadly, she won’t return to the Great Lakes in 2008. http://www.greatlakescruising. com/columbus/itineraries.php#t oronto-chicago To answer your question, Detroitstar, there has always been a passenger ship or two cruising the Great Lakes each year for the past several years. Awhile back, the French vessel Le Levant cruised the area several times over a couple years. http://www.ship-technology.com /projects/levant/ | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 596 Registered: 08-2007 |
Yes, the lakes are too low for Columbus they say. http://www.cleveland.com/livin g/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/ living-0/1187945253199240.xml& coll=2 | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 946 Registered: 09-2005 |
The cruise line provides the following online info for the Windsor stop: Windsor, Ontario Enjoy your day exploring the only Canadian city south of the United States, or venture across the river to Detroit, Michigan and explore The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village. Visit a Colonial village green, a working 19th century farm, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright brothers' bicycle shop in which they built their airplane, and other thrilling venues of American ingenuity. Interesting, it appears that passengers are offered two options: 1. roam around Windsor; 2. Henry Ford/Greenfield Village. I would assume the Windsor option involves directing people off the ship and the HF/GV involves coaches waiting in Windsor. I wonder if passengers are provided any additional information, i.e. what to do in Windsor, transit options to Detroit and in Detroit, what to do in Detroit, etc.? If such info is not provided, then Windsor/Detroit's tourism boards should be more actively providing such information. If not passengers really have two options: bus to HF/GV or Casino Windsor. Note: I do make the assumption that most passengers on these cruises are older and are not "independent travellers". I could be wrong. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9835 Registered: 10-2003 |
Well Windsor did spend $80,000 US for the Grand Prix (waste of money for Windsor) and over $100,000 for the WWE event. Why not send MORE people over to Detroit. | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 947 Registered: 09-2005 |
More about the ship from the Windsor Star: http://www.canada.com/windsors tar/story.html?id=b8e660cc-612 f-4778-9e15-a569f4ce722f&k=197 86 | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 171 Registered: 12-2003 |
As long as Gord Orr (aka Mr. Potato Head) is in charge of Tourism in Windsor abandon hope for rationale thinking.. | ||
Billk Member Username: Billk Post Number: 116 Registered: 09-2005 |
So, what happened with that Port of Detroit thing they were supposed to build west of the Ren Cen? | ||
Vas Member Username: Vas Post Number: 797 Registered: 01-2004 |
i don't know Goat, aren't all those Canadians and Europeans really into Indy racing? Wouldn't it be a big draw there? My Canadian friends love it. | ||
Detroitbill Member Username: Detroitbill Post Number: 329 Registered: 09-2006 |
A very large portion of these tourists come from Germany, I was talking with some of them after they came on to the Windsor Riverfront Park yesterday morning. This was the first time in our area for most of them. | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 948 Registered: 09-2005 |
Detroitbill, any word on what most of these German tourists did during their stop over? |
