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Updated Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:59 am TWN, AP

Company drops plan to use ship as hotel for Games

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- The company planning to use a cruise ship as a floating hotel during the Vancouver Olympics has said it's scuttling the idea less than two weeks before the games.

Edmonton-based, Newwest Special Projects, said in a release Tuesday that slow sales and higher than unanticipated expenses forced the company to drop plans to moor the Norwegian Star in Vancouver harbor. Newwest said it would be issuing refunds to those who'd booked rooms on the ship and help find people other accommodations.

The company began cutting prices last fall for its Olympic packages, and also offered a pre-Olympic cruise from Los Angeles to Vancouver that was supposed to start on Saturday.

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