travel
wise
- Barbara MeCreadie

1 mead Stakis. group which has
superb hotels all over Scotland; ‘the’

“opened by Prime. Minister Tha
“cher, i
» New. “spirit of discovery:’”

“Joe Gillan,’ general manager of"

s representative of that City

EACH YEAR I get.
numerous requests..for the
cruise. ship timetable so
printing it. | (see. page 24)
comes as sort of an annual
event.

The ships arrive in the Port of ©

Vancouver, barring mishaps, at
between 7. a.m. and 8 a.m.” Pas-

sengers are ‘off-loaded...with ;

dispatch as the crew has only a few

hours ‘to get everything spotless’

23 - Sunday, May 22, 1988

‘before the next load arrives.
“The Daphne is the earliest ship

to leave the. harbor, steaming out:
_ every. Friday’ at 4:30 p.m. The

Fairsea dawdies. around. until 7
p.m. while the rest of them get
moving between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.

- Weekends, especially Saturdays,
are the best, for liner-looking while
Mondays are almost a dead loss —
only six arrivals are booked for the
entire summer,

Naturally, the schedule is “sub-
ject to: change without notice,’

~ North Shore News

Catch \ Vancouver cruise ship action

however the ships doing the Alaska
run this year are a reliable lot. Not

a Prince,.George to be seen. That

ship“ wasn’t the ‘Prince George,
eventually,’ it . was, the ‘Prince
George — maybe!"

And now, a true story about the
old Prince George. We were
among the fortunate few who got |
on. board, got all the way to

Alaska and even got. back.

One of our fellow ‘passengers
was a nice guy — an American and
- See Weekend Page 24

Soff