Greater Baton Rouge Business Report: Rolling on the river

To the editor:

I saw the article about a boat for Baton Rouge ("An excursion boat for B.R.?," Daily Report.com, Sept, 14). What do you think about the following tourist idea?

A riverboat and train would operate between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Tourists could buy a package that includes the following:

* A night at the Starwood Hotel on France street, close to the river.

* Tourists board the riverboat and take a trip to New Orleans--gambling, entertainment, the whole works.

* Tourists then spend the night at the Hilton in New Orleans near the Riverwalk.

* The return trip to Baton Rouge is on an old train that takes tourists on a ride through plantation country and stops at the Starwood. There might even be a leg out to Lafayette to Cajun country.

A riverboat is there already, and both properties are near the river and the tracks. What do you think?

Derek Meche

107 Woodward Drive

Lafayette

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