Baton Rouge, LA: We are moored in Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana and home of LSU. The name is French and translates as “red pole, or red cane.” Our cruise is almost over, this time tomorrow we’ll be sitting in the NOLA airport waiting for our flight to Atlanta, with connections to Jackson, WY. Tomorrow will be a loooong day.
This has been our first experience with American Cruise Lines, and we’ve enjoyed it. They really do their level best to keep us fed, housed in comfort, plied with liquor, entertained, and generally catered to.
We have spent the last two weeks in an all-inclusive luxury hotel that happens to be a riverboat. An example, we needed a couple of AA batteries and they ducked back into the office and gave us four, and not brand X either.
We don’t drink much but I know the good brands and they’re pouring the good stuff, plus choice of wines at dinner. Three entrees to choose from each evening and if you don’t like any of them they’ll do you a steak, I had one two nights ago.
ACL is an interesting family-owned firm. They own the shipyard that builds all their ships, and they travel only in the U.S. although they have an affiliate that does a similar shtick in Canada. Their crew is American too. Everybody we’ve dealt with is nice, they do “pleasant and accommodating” very well indeed.
They have itineraries on the Mississippi, the Columbia, and the Great Lakes, plus Alaska, New England coastal and Florida coastal. We’ve signed up for the Columbia next year.
