Super Bowl Attendees: MEETINGS AFLOAT! Yacht Charter Service Available for Pre-Game Business Hospitality Events

St. Petersburg, FL, January 09, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Most Super Bowl visitors to the Tampa Bay area won’t ever actually get onto Tampa Bay’s sparking, green-blue waters. The closest they’ll get is one of the several bridges that cross the Bay. Or, they may visit a waterfront restaurant, bar or hotel, giving them a brief glimpse of the Bay’s glistening waterways.

A local yacht charter service, MEETINGS AFLOAT!, is offering Super Bowl XLIII visitors the opportunity to take a private cruise on Tampa Bay. An estimated 100,000 visiting business and sponsors executives, advertisers, team personnel, thousands of media representatives and football fans will be converging on Tampa Bay over the next few weeks for the pre-game activities, the parties and the game, itself.

According to Captain Paul Warren, VP of MEETINGS AFLOAT!, “We offer a unique, relaxing business atmosphere where corporate hospitality is mixed with the fantastic scenery of the waters and wildlife of Tampa Bay. It’s a great place to entertain your customers, your very important vendors or to reward your key performers. A yacht charter is a perfect way for executives to get out on Tampa Bay.”

Since MEETINGS AFLOAT! operates throughout the Tampa Bay region, the choice of docking location is up to the charterer. Options include downtown Tampa, downtown St. Petersburg, Clearwater Beach, Pass-a-Grille/St. Pete Beach or any of the numerous waterfront restaurants along Tampa Bay’s waters.

Cruise options include full day or partial day excursions. Potential destinations/routes for the cruises include a tour of the waterfront of downtown Tampa, St. Petersburg or Clearwater; a trip to Caladesi Island State Park; the Intra-Coastal Waterway with luxurious homes and condos lining its shores; or, down Tampa Bay to the Sunshine Skyway.

While numerous yachts are available for charter from MEETINGS AFLOAT!, the company’s primary yacht is “Dolce Vita,” a 45’ CHB Seamaster flybridge sedan trawler. The boat is set up to facilitate both business meetings & presentations and corporate hospitality. It features the same kind of audio-visual technology that you’d find in any shore-side meeting room, including a surround-sound theater system with DVD/CD changer, an onboard notebook computer and printer, high-speed Internet access and a large LCD flat-panel tv/computer display.

For entertaining, the yacht boasts a full galley (kitchen) with refrigerator, icemaker, microwave oven and cooktop range. There’s also a BBQ grill, coolers for drinks and iPod connections for both the inside and outside sound systems. MEETINGS AFLOAT! works with several local caterers who can provide the appropriate food and beverage service aboard. Charterers and guests can bring their own alcoholic beverages, if desired, since MEETINGS AFLOAT! does not have a liquor license.

For further information about chartering “Dolce Vita” or other yachts, contact MEETINGS AFLOAT! toll free: (877) 860-MEET (6338), local phone: (727) 394-8978, Web: www.meetings-afloat.com, or by e-mail: info@meetings-afloat.com

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