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Great Lakes Cruises to Dock in Wyandotte
Thirteen Great Lakes cruises will be offered in 2012, up from two this past summer, and will originate at the new Detroit public dock.
A new passenger ship will sail the Great Lakes next year, bringing more visitors to ports in Michigan, including Wyandotte, according to an article in the Detroit Free Press.
The new, 138-passenger MV Yorktown and its 100-passenger sister ships, the Grande Mariner and Niagara Prince, will sail 13 cruises that will start, end or stop at downtown Detroit's new public dock and terminal that opened this year, according to the Free Press, an increase from two cruises offered this past summer. The story says the ships will also stop in Wyandotte, Holland, Beaver Island, the Soo, Manistee, Saugatuck, Mackinac Island, Whitefish Point, Houghton, Munising and Charlevoix in 2012.
"What's terrific about the new dock and Detroit is the proximity to the upper part of the Great Lakes," Chris Conlin, president of Great Lakes Cruise Company in Ann Arbor, which markets the cruises, told the Free Press. "I believe the new port in Detroit is the reason the Yorktown is sailing out of Detroit and not Windsor or Toronto."
The itineraries of the cruises can be found on the Great Lakes Cruise Company website.
