Link: Floating hotels for Super Bowl
The city signed contracts with three cruise lines, and paid $11.7 million to rent five ships to use as temporary hotels along the river, which runs through the heart of the city.
"This is the epitome of what we were hoping for -- and that was a big ship in our downtown skyline," said Tom Petway, co-chairman of the Jacksonville Super Bowl Host Committee.
Petway was one of the first to board one of the ships, the Radisson Seven Seas Navigator. Exploring his 1,100-square-foot suite Wednesday, he declared: "This is really exceptional."
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