Ship enriches and entertains

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: January 12, 2003| Author: JAY CLARKE | Copyright information

Ship enriches and entertains

By JAY CLARKE Knight Ridder News Service

Sunday, January 12, 2003

Port Canaveral, Fla. -- As soon as you board Royal Olympic Cruises' Olympia Explorer, you know this sleek new ship cruises European-style.

Captain Georgios Apostilis calls the 25,000-ton Olympia Explorer - - small in today's world of enormous cruise ships -- a "megayacht," because it has the qualities of a luxury yacht and a much larger cruise ship.

"It has no rock-...

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