There are two choices of entrees for dinner. Breads and pastries are home-baked. Early morning breakfast and simple lunch are also available in the grill on the top deck. Sodas, popcorn and yogurt are served as snacks. This is a shallow-draft sternwheeler river boat in the Victorian style of the paddlewheelers that cruised in the 1800s.
Public rooms have large windows for good river viewing.
Live entertainment begins at the cocktail hour in the Columbia Showroom and Paddlewheel Lounge, the night having such things as cabaret shows, singalongs and passenger talent night. Folk songs, spirituals, jazz and big band music is played during the week for listening and dancing. There are lectures by historians and naturalists. An electric calliope occasionally plays. One cruise each summer is designated a family cruise and has youth activities.