New Orleans Magazine - Downtown departures: a guide to cruise ship service from New Orleans. (Travel)
March 1, 2003 -- IT'S MIDMORNING ON THE GULF OF MEXICO. TWO HUNDRED nautical miles behind our ship is the mouth of the Mississippi River. Three hundred miles ahead ...
Boat gambling bill takes a direct hit (Reg Req'd)
Senators dealt a major blow Friday to a bill that would legalize gambling aboard paddle-wheelers that cruise on the Mississippi River.
American Queen everything I had dreamed
For many years I fantasized about taking a river cruise on one of the great "Queens" that paddle up and down the Mississippi River.
Bill would expand gambling on river (Reg Req'd)
Legislation that would allow gambling aboard cruise ships that sail the Mississippi River from New Orleans to other locations in Louisiana or the United States has been filed by an East Jefferson lawmaker for ...
Viking River Cruises
Viking River Cruises takes the "less is more" approach to cruising--but only in terms of the water you're sailing on and the size of the ship! The Viking line cruises rivers in Europe, Russia, and starting this year, China, Thailand and Tibet. And inste...
Cruising America's Waterways: the Mississippi River: Memphis to New Orleans PT 1
Length: 26 Minutes Episode: 206 THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: MEMPHIS TO NEW ORLEANS PT 1 Program Genre: Travel Closed Captioned: No Series Website: None listed.
Viking River Cruises Honored with Travel + Leisure's Prestigious 2005 "World's Best" Award
Travel + Leisure magazine revealed the results of their 10th annual World's Best Awards Readers' Survey and Viking River Cruises ranked as the number one river cruise line on the "Top 10 Small-Ship Cruise Lines" list. Viking River Cruises was...
Gambling proposed on boats up and down the Mississippi
Legislation that would allow gambling aboard cruise ships that sail the Mississippi River from New Orleans to other locations in Louisiana or the United States has been filed for debate in the upcoming ...
Senate says no to American Queen gambling
BATON ROUGE, La. The Senate says "no" to gambling during two-day excursions on a Mississippi River cruise ship based in New Orleans.
Entergy to take down lines that caused cruise ship complaints
NEW ORLEANS Entergy Corporation says it will remove old transmission lines above the Mississippi River.