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Journey Summary
Day 1 - October 4, 2024 - Depart Home City / Arrive in Toronto, Canada / Embark the Le Bellot / Welland Canal
Day 2 - October 5, 2024 - Niagara Falls / Lake Erie
Day 3 - October 6, 2024 - Detroit, Michigan
Day 4 - October 7, 2024 - Detroit / Lake Huron
Day 5 - October 8, 2024 - Tobermory, Canada / Lake Huron
Day 6 - October 9, 2024 - Soo Locks / Lake Superior / Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, U.S.
Day 7 - October 10, 2024 - Mackinac Island / Lake Michigan
Day 8 - October 11, 2024 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin / Return to home city
Itinerary Highlights
- Eight-day, seven-night voyage between Toronto to Milwaukee, featuring a cruise of all 5 Great Lakes, including a call at Mackinac Island.
- In Toronto, cruise through 8 locks of the Welland Canal, one of North America’s most important economic lifelines, linking Lake Ontario to Lake Erie.
- Full-day excursion to Niagara Falls, with a cruise to Horseshoe Falls and lunch overlooking the falls.
- Discover the Sir Adam Beck Power Station, the world’s first large-scale hydroelectric generation project, and Niagara’s famous Floral Clock, intricately filled with 20,000 plants and flowers.
- Visit the Detroit Institute of Arts and see Diego Rivera’s monumental Detroit Industry mural, as well as master works by Auguste Rodin; Michelangelo; Vincent van Gogh; Edgar Degas; and Paul Cézanne.
- Explore the Edsel and Eleanor Ford Mansion.
- Private, glass-bottom boat cruise through Big and Little Tub Harbors and around Flowerpot Island in Tobermory, Ontario.
- Visit the SS Valley Camp, a retired lake freighter that is now a museum featuring exhibits of faithfully restored living quarters.
- Transit the Soo Locks from Lake Huron to Lake Superior.
- Watch colossal freighters lower 21 feet from Lake Superior to enter Lake Huron at the Soo Locks Interpretation Center.
- Horse-drawn carriage tour of Victorian Mackinac Island and clifftop Fort Mackinac with lunch at the historic Grand Hotel.
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*All prices are per person/double occupancy. Cabins are available for single occupancy upon request and pricing ranges from 160% - 200% of the per person double pricing rate. Port charges are an additional $450 per person. Cruise fuel surcharges, if any, will be advised prior to final payment and will be collected on-board. *FREE AIRFARE (economy class, subject to availability).
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