American Queen Review

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Awonderful REiverboat experience

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padrek
First Time Cruiser • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Aug 2013

I have long wished to take a Riverboat cruise and so I went with American Queen on a 6 day Ohio River cruise. American Queen starts your tour with an overnight in the originating city, Pittsburg in this case. We stayed in luxury accomodations at the Omni William Tell in downtown. There was a Hospitality Desk that afternoon, dinner "on your own", breakfast on AQ, check in at the hotel the next morning. Along with many others I signed up for their "Premium" (extra cost) tour of Pittsburg which was excellent, lunch on our own, and then delivery to the ship where we walked aboard with no security etc after we swiped our ticket card given us that morning and off to our charming staterooms where our luggage, picked up at the hotel, was waiting. Then underway at 1800 followed by truly delicious dinner either in the Dining Room or at the Front Porch Buffet overlooking the forward observation deck with plenty of rocking chairs etc. Light dining was also available at the "Back Porch" Bar and Grille.

The ship, built for Delta Queen Steamship Line in 1988, is a replica of a 1840's Steam driven Paddleboat and is beautiful. Cabins are the same, with updated baths of course. As we travelled south the "Riverlorian" gave both announcements of places/things of interest, and additionally daily talks on River Life etc.

Each day we visited another small river side town and were met by AQ's busses, which followed us shorside, and we were given complimentary Hop On/Off tours of the area and its museums etc. with another bus following aong every 15 min. to continue ones tour. AQ has made arrangements for free admission to all the museums etc., and many were much more interesting than one would expect to find in small town America, including two wonderful River/Riverboat Museums, a complete colonial fort re-created, art and theatre museums etc. All most enjoyable.Iced bottled water was distributed as one left, swiped ones "Boarding Card", and on return swiped the card again and back on board. What was missing - how about intrusive security checks, pawing thru ones bags, metal detectors, X Rays etc. Was the hassle missed - I doubt it.

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