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17/04/2007 10:24 pm
So, we decided to arrive a day early. We arrive in Cincinnati at lunch time on the fourth of July. We have a hotel room on the KY side of the river. I have a few ideas for what to do that afternoon and evening. But I am open to suggestions.
The showboat Majestic is dark that day. What do you suggest for activities, and transportation?
18/04/2007 6:30 am
Hi Bruce,
I haven´t checked if anything of the things I´m going to mention is open on July 4th:
For Covington ( http://www.steamboats.org/traveller/covington.shtml):
Lunch at Mike Fink
Walk the Northern Kentucky River Walk with Capt. Mary B. Greene´s statue and a bench of the Gordon C. Greene
The Beringer-Crawford Museum is closed on July 4th.
For Newport ( http://www.steamboats.org/traveller/newport.shtml):
Newport Aquarium
Harbor cruise on the BB Riverboats
For Cincinnati ( http://www.steamboats.org/traveller/cincinnati.shtml )
Have a look on the National Steamboat Monument.
Maybe the Union Station Museum Complex. We love the zoo too.
Which hotel are you in? Do you have a car? During Tall Stacks we did a lot of walking over the Purple People Bridge and the Suspension Bridge.
There´s a public bus system which is connecting Kentucky and Cincinnati but I´m sure Dale or Frank can tell you more about it. There´s not much to do in downtown Cincy so I´d opt to stay on the Kentucky side.
Carmen
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18/04/2007 11:47 am
We will not have a car. We will be in Covington.
18/04/2007 2:21 pm
Bruce, Deb and I stayed in Covington in 2000 in a Bed and Breakfast on Garrard Street, I think, for our very first cruise with DQSC on the MQ, for our 25th wedding anniversary. Anyways the Licking river was the backyard property line of this incredible bed and breakfast. I don't know where you are staying, but from the B & B we stayed at which was quite a bit south of East 4th Avenue, some of the places that Carmen mentions were within an easy walking distance. Mike Finks was one and is a great place to eat, both for the food and for the steamboat history, first time I had ever had Jambalaya, wonderful stuff filling a huge plate. And Mike Finks is at the same area (River Walk) as Capt Mary's statue and the GCG bench.
Nice place, Covington...