Texas Treasure Casino Cruise Corpus Christi

Viva Gaming & Resorts has reported that all financing required for the company's Texas Treasure casino cruise ship project in Corpus Christi, Texas is now fully secured and in place. The Texas Treasure, presently the only casino ship in the state of Texas, will operate twice daily cruises, each five to six hours in duration, seven days per week from Harbour Island, with its inaugural cruise and soft opening set for Friday evening, September 15 as previously announced. 'Despite numerous and unexpected delays, we've moved at an extremely fast pace to ensure this project opened on schedule,' Viva Gaming President and Chief Executive Officer, Marty Gross said. Viva Gaming executives expect the ship to draw well in excess of 400,000 passengers annually from all over the state, since it is the only place for offshore gaming in Texas. Introductory fares have been set at $19.95 for day and evening weekday cruises and $24.95 for Friday evening and Saturday cruises. The project is expected to generate approximately $40 million in revenues during its first full year of operations.

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A little history about this ship...St George was built by Swan & Hunter Tyneside Shipsbuilders in 1968. She entered service with British Railways between Harwich and Hook of Holland, remaining on this route until withdrawn in 1983. St George was sold the following year to a Cypriot company Psatha Navigation, and entered service as Patra Express for Ventouris Lines between Greece and Italy. There were plans to use her on a new venture between Poole and Bilbao in 1990, but instead she was renamed Scandinavian Sky II and rebuilt in Immingham for use as a cruise ship. She entered service for SeaEscape from Fort Lauderdale to Freeport in August 1990, having been renamed again as Scandinavian Dawn. Owners were registered as MSJ Shipping. In 1996 she was renamed Discovery Dawn still operating for the SeaEscape banner. In 1998 she was operating for New SeaEscape as the Island Dawn, reverting to Discovery Dawn the following year, operating from Port Isabel, Texas. Registered owners changed to Discovery Dawn Ltd Partnership, of Nassau. In 2000, Discovery Dawn was chartered to Viva Gaming and Resorts as the Texas Treasure, for casino cruises from Corpus Christi and Port Aransas in Texas.