<div id="subtitle">Canadian company cancels plan to use cruise ship as hotel for Winter Olympics</div><div><p>The company planning to use a cruise ship as a floating hotel during the Vancouver Olympics has said it's scuttling the plan less than two weeks before the games.</p><p>Edmonton-based Newwest Special Projects said in a release Tuesday that slow sales and higher than anticipated expenses forced the company to drop plans to moor the Norwegian Star in Vancouver harbor.</p><p>Newwest said it would be issuing refunds to those who'd booked rooms on the ship and help find people other accommodations.</p><p>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.</p><p>Prices on Newwest's Web site, which was still displaying an ad for the floating hotel Tuesday night, ranged from $275 to $575 a night.</p><p>The company did not say in its release how many people the cancellation had affected but said 1,108 staterooms had been available aboard the Norwegian Cruise Lines ship.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=68387964&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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