FERRIES - Coping with a ‘booze cruise’

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FERRIES - Coping with a ‘booze cruise’

Mar 19, 2008
By Talis Saule Archdeacon

BAR BOAT: The long bars which run down the cruise ship serve as the main attraction for some of the boat’s clients.

RIGA - Though there are many different sorts of passenger ferries in the Baltic states, the largest and grandest by far are those which make their way across the Baltic Sea to Scandinavia. Those ferries are more than just transportation. They are in direct competition with low cost airlines like Ryan Air, so they have to offer something which planes cannot, namely, pleasure, “There is a difference in going by ship instead of by plane, [the ferries] are for entertainment and for drin ...

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