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I've got a brochure from them that lists all kinds of prices for
different packages they offer. I'll be taking one of their weekend
getaways in a couple weeks..think it takes something like 11 hours
to cross one way, the 23 hour is over you go..stay on the ship and
they just turn around and come back. You can take your car but from
what i remember from the brochure its something like $99 per car one
way. The package I'm taking is sail over and spend a night in Brunswick
and come home on Sunday (sail friday night) think its like $189 per
person and includes passage both ways,night cabin on trip over,hotel
and if you want a 'day cabin' on the trip back that costs a few $$
extra. They have from that 23 hour cruise up to 7 days in Nove Scotia.
If there is anything specific you may want to know let me know and i'll
see what the brochure shows..
al
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| My wife and I took their 23hr Portland/Nova Scotia/Portland cruise 2
weeks ago. We had a nice time and enjoyed ourselves. It is NOT the
quality of a regular cruise ship, but it is fine for a one night. The
food is average, they do have a casino, entertainment is "hokey" but
enjoyable. If you don't gamble there is really not much else to do but
sit around. Unfortunately they do not provide enough deck chairs, so we
really didn't sit much outside.
We experienced the smallest shower in the world I think. Many of the
cabins do not have their own facilities, I would not recommend those
cabins.
So, to sum things up, for one night it was fine, more than one night
I would not do. If this is a first time cruising do NOT judge what
cruising is all about by this ship. It is a ferry, bordering on a
cruise ship. Nothing less, nothing more.
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| I did manage to get them on the phone and they promptly sent out a
package of materials. They have two packages whereby you don't take
your car. The minicruise is the overnighter mentioned in the earlier
reply - travel time is eleven hours, one hour in Yarmouth, then turn
around for another eleven hours back. The next one up is the
"maxicruise". In this one, you get to spend a night a one of three
hotels nearby. Scotia Price provides transports and you get about 24
hours before returning. All other "packages" involve taking the car and
spending 4-5 days (or you can design your own schedule)
It's a pretty attrative way to go because it cuts off almost 900
additional driving miles from Portland, Maine. And Nova Scotia is
beautiful country to visit. But we were looking for a day or two
tripper and spending 22hrs on a ferry won't do. Perhaps next year we'll
plan to do a week.
Thanks for the replys.
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Just returned from a Maxi-Cruise...the ship itself is nicer than I
was expecting..nice and clean. We stayed at the Grand Hotel which was
very nice also..right at the end of "main street" across from a little
park. Town itself is busy during the day but most everything shut right
down in early evening (saturday night). Being in Nova Scotia was,
again, nice..very quiet at night which i'm not really used to and
enjoyed. The cruise over and back was fine..seas were very calm and
the weather was great. NOW, for the off side of the trip..
IF you rent a car (which you surely don't need to) you only get 100
free kilometers (60 miles) and you eat that up in the first hour
cruising up the coast and then its 15 cents per kilometer after that..
we racked up some good $$ on that venture!...feel it should be free
mileage for the price you pay for the cheapest car ($49.95). THEN
the biggie..the tax on EVERYTHING..they have this GST which stands for
Good and Services Tax and it is 7% and it tacked on to everything you
do or buy and then they throw another 10.??% sales tax on top of that!
for everything we did we ended up paying close to 18% tax by the time
the final bill was given to us!...Other than that outrageous taxing and
re-taxing..the trip was worth doing and if it not for that tax i'd
surely do it again..but that 18% adds up real fast!
Al
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