Passengers transfer to a multi-deck riverboat in Deep River for an hour's ride to East Haddam and back, then train back to Essex.
Bar service is offered on the optional open car and a parlor car.
Snacks and drinks are also available on the boat. Mark Twain Cruises' Aunt Polly, sailing 4 times daily from Saybrook Point. Our two-hour Essex Harbor Cruise takes you up the beautiful Connecticut River, under the bridges and past the marsh lands, to historic Essex, a town steeped in our nation's maritime history. Catch a salt air breeze and sail the briny sea on our two-hour Duck Island Cruise, through the massive stone breakwaters, past the lighthouses and westward on Long Island Sound. Relax before dinner with a cocktail on our one-hour Lighthouse cruise.