Tennessee River Cruise

[knittinggirl]

Are the shore excursions they listed on the find cruises the only ones offered?    DH isn't impressed, and threatening to cancel.

Edited August 28 by knittinggirl

[BaumD]

They may have more or less depending on the actual cruise. Keep in mind two things:

• Only 100-150 people on the cruise, how many excursions do you expect them to offer?
• This isn't the Caribbean where the islands total economy is based on tourism, so they have lots of excursions. These are mostly small midwest/southern towns that don't have lots of tourism options. That's one of the plusses of ACL, you get to see America as it really is and not what the tour operators want it to be to sell tickets.

[AroundWithMAPTravels]

We did find that the Huntsville space museum was NOT listed until we got onboard.   It was what we were looking to do.   
otherwise, there should be about 3 listed for each stop (not sure what you are seeing).   Believe it or not, every one we did was worthwhile.   We did mostly the included trips but picked up two very reasonable options.   One thing we weren’t aware of until we got onboard is that the Local Loop options actually include admission to the museums/homes at the stops.  Did not expect that, and were able to do several museums unexpectedly.  One thing: DO NOT miss the quilt museum in Paducah (even a non-quilt lover should be awed by the artistry).   There is an optional tour that does the murals and the museum, or the local loop stops there and should allow for at least a quick visit.

[JanetMarie]

We are leaving next week on the Tennessee River cruise.  This will be our third with ACL.  The "loop" is a wonderful way to see the area where the ship docks.  You board one of their buses (which, BTW, follow the ship, typically 3 of them) and they circle around the city to the points of interest.  You get on/off throughout a time period of a few hours.  This may be an option for you.