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February 5, 2010

No cruise ship hotel for Olympic Games

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The company planning to use a cruise ship as a floating hotel during the Vancouver Olympics has said it's scuttling the plan less than two weeks before the games.

Edmonton-based Newwest Special Projects said in a release this week that slow sales and higher than anticipated expenses forced the company to drop plans to moor the Norwegian Star in Vancouver harbor.


 
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