RiverBarge "easy" holidays - Cruise News - RiverBarge Excursion Lines - Brief Article

Cruise Travel, Sept-Oct, 2002

Those looking for excitement and adventure and less halls to deck this holiday season should consider a trip aboard RiverBarge Excursions' 198-passenger River Explorer. This year guests can travel the lower Mississippi River and scenic Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, discovering the sights, sounds, and traditions of southern Louisiana and New Orleans, America's most European city.

RiverBarge Excursions is offering a New Orleans roundtrip "Cajuns & Creoles Christmas Bonfires on the Levee" from December 19-27, for a one-of-a-kind experience of lighting the way for Le Pere Noel, a centuries-old Louisiana Christmas tradition still being practiced today by thousands of families. A New Orleans roundtrip "Delta South, New Year's in the Big Easy" is available from December 30-January 2, 2003, offering a chance to see the Crescent City's spectacular fireworks display from the best vantage point possible--the Mississippi River.

RiverBarge Excursion Lines owns and operates the River Explorer, the only hotel barge traveling America's inland waterways, offering four- to 10-day excursions to seven regions of the country's rivers, including the lower and upper Mississippi River, the Cumberland River Valley, the Atchafalaya River Basin, the Ohio River Valley, the Missouri River, and the inland Texas-Louisiana Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Travelers can also enjoy a relaxed, family atmosphere, homestyle cooking, regional entertainment, land activities, and fully inclusive pricing.

For more information contact your travel agent or RiverBarge Excursion Lines (Cruise Travel Magazine), 201 Opelousas Ave., New Orleans, LA 70114; or log on to www.river barge.com.