Does anyone know why the Lighthouse Depot has cancelled both the June Tours for this year.

Has anyone ever gone on one of them and if so what was it like?


Mark

I don't know anything about the tours but I would guess perhaps a poor initial response to tickets sales?

Bob

Probably has something to do with the $3000 per person. I know they're good tours and around ten days long, but that's not cheap. This is not meant as a slam towards Lighthouse Depot, but there are lots of lights my wife and I can go see for a lot less than $6000.

Well Folks,

No more assumptions are necessary. I called Hewins Travel, who handles all the Lighthouse Depot tours, and both excursions scheduled for June have definitely been cancelled. The reason is because the minimum number of people had not signed up for the tours.

bobo

I think that if they bring the price down, then more people will come. For $8,000, my entire family can go on a transatlantic crossing on the QE2 in an oceanview stateroom. For $400, I can see all the lighthouses and more that this tour features.

I think people realise that they can see these lighthouses on their own, for a fraction of the cost. Yes, the LHDepot tour has a nice bus, and you get to tour a bunch of lights, but I don't think that that's worth the extra $7500.

I think people are looking at what else could be done with that money. Either you can go to a five-star hotel/ocean liner, or you can go on a very nice lighthouse trip, but stay in okay hotels and sit on a bus all day long.

I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with taking a bus tour. I'd love to do a lighthouse bus tour. But I'd love to go on a transatlantic crossing on the QE2 even more, and I think that there is more value in that crossing than in that lighthouse tour.

And, if I get working on my QE2 novel (which is actually coming together this time), I think we can take that crossing as a tax deduction, for authors' research.