New development aims to make Detroit a popular port of call

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They have 1400-ft ocean-going iron ore freighters on the Great Lakes, don't they???

I stand corrected. Great Lakes Cruise Company has a boat with just over 200 cabins. That may not be "a couple thousand" people, but you'd still need a small fleet of motorcoaches to transport the several hundred passengers. And that still doesn't resolve the problem of individuals having their own, independent itineraries. What is Person A wants to shop downtown but can't, because the Regimented Fun Police decide that they're going to bus *everyone*--regardless of what they actually want to do--to the Henry Ford?

Ok, i get what you're saying but day excursions and side trips are pretty much the norm for cruise ships at ports of call. Not a lot of towns with mass transit on those Alaskan or Caribbean ports of call. I could see tours set up.... Get on the blue bus for Meadowbrook or Edsel Ford House, the yellow for the Henry ford, or the green for the Museum district. Having that set up is also good for crowd control and ensuring the passengers all make it back.

Again...sort of 'meh' on the whole thing. Great lakes cruisers are looking to get to the north channel and wilderness cruising... not stopping in detroit in the first place.