St Louis is a River town, always has been. you are not going to see the paddle boats stacked up four deep along the levee like it was a 100 yrs ago,but you will safely see a part of the Midwest that is not interstate or cornfields. this is one of the few chances you can get to sit back and enjoy a river cruise with little to no planning. just show ...
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Be careful
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 08/09/07
I and my mother, my husband and two children took a riverboat ride on our trip. It was the dinner cruise. The ride was enjoyable. And upon disembarking, we witnessed a mugging. This is a dangerous area, and needs to have some kind of police prescence to be a real viable place to visit when in the city. That goes for the entire downtown area.
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Excellent time!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 02/14/07
We went for the first time 4 years ago on our first get-away. We made a whole weekend of it, catching a game at Busch Stadium and other sight-seeing in St Louis. We had a GREAT time and STILL talk about the cheesecake we had on the Riverboat Cruise. We are planning another trip over there this summer!!!
I was looking for an old paddleboat cruise to ride for an hour. These look like paddleboats, but they are only for show. Ours didn't even go around. Nice ride for an hour though.
Tickets for the dinner cruise were almost 4x as much as the daytime tours, but they came with live music from a talented Dixieland duo, along with a slightly bland dinner. Once you leave the beautiful downtown skyline, there's nothing to see but industrial plants and dozens of barges transporting freight; no mansions lining the river, no ...
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