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Jacksonville Floating Hotels Forget Low Tide?

February 7, 2005 at 5:00 PM | by | Comments (2)

By now we all know about the Jacksonville Super Bowl hotel room gaffe...1500 hotel rooms for hundreds of thousands of weekend visitors just isn't good math (take notes Detroit), however, we also know five cruise ships sailed in to save the day.

The real question is did these cruise ships plan for low tide? We didn't see this with our own eyes, but here is what one informative Super Bowl watcher in Jacksonville told us:

You might not have heard is that these cruise ships didn't really plan for low tide--so when the tide started going out, the cruise ships had to retreat to higher seas.  Imagine this scenario:  "Hey, I left my camera back in the room, I am going to run up and get it--uh oh, looks like I am going to have to swim back to my room?"  It didn't quite play out that way, but when shipmates wanted to return to their room during low tide, they had to do so via dingy.  $400 a night to ride a dingy!

...Or at least so we were told by a couple of frustrated Super Bowl visitors.  Can we get a confirmation on this?

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Here in Fort Worth, it was reported that the city hired 2 ships for $11.5M. Have not heard of trouble with tides.

Gary Potter on February 7, 2005 at 4:02 PM #Permalink

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I live in Jacksonville and was downtown, by the river where the ships were docked several times during the week and they were always there. Also never heard anything about this on the local news. Really don't think this was true, because during the fews days before the game, before the ship's guests arrived, you could go for breakfast or dinner on the ships. Also, the first time a cruise ship came here, they had to wait unil low tide to get it under one of the bridges.
mbdm777 on April 3, 2005 at 11:17 PM #Permalink
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