2012 Cruise Ship Schedule Released
The 2012 Cruise Schedule has been released, showing that there will be 140 contract cruise ship visits, the same as 2011.
23 ships will make ‘occasional visits’ to the island, down from 40 in 2011. Next year will see a total of 163 visits, a a drop of 17 from the 180 in 2011.
The Summit and Veendam will make 19 visits each, the Norwegian Dawn will make 22 visits, the Enchantment of the Seas is due to make 25 visits as is the Norwegian Star, and the Explorer of the Seas will make 30 visits. All contract cruise ships, except the Veendam, will stop in Dockyard.
Carnival Cruise Lines cancelled 11 of the 12 previously approved cruise calls for 2012, the Veendam will not be returning to Bermuda in 2013, while the Norwegian Breakaway will commence including Bermuda in its cruise offerings, making 22 calls to Bermuda in the 2013 season.
The 2012 Cruise Ship Schedule is below, click ‘Fullscreen’ for greater clarity:
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It seems to be that even with the Carnival line pulling out we will still cater to a large number of cruise ship visitors who have faith in our product and our country.
Hopefully we will be able to see some direct transport to St George’s that can assist this town in their economic survival.
Wishful Thinking – we should be doing a lot more for our visitors than trying to shunt them off to a crumbling town just because it happens to be a marginal constituency presently held by the incumbents. You, like so many others, are taking a lot for granted in what is in reality a ruthless and competitive environment. The loss of Carnivore, oops I mean Carnival’s fourteen cruises represents at least twenty million dollars of lost foreign exchange for Bermuda (you do the figures at $120.00 a head passenger tax plus the shore spend which is a lot larger than most people think – actually bigger than hotel guests once you have backed out room charges and food and beverage).
James, if you do the math you’ll see that in 2010 Bermuda had 348,000 cruise ship visitors and they contributed $61 million to Bermuda. That works out to $175 a head – subtract the $120 passenger tax and they spent an average of $50 each. Most of that spend will be on souvenirs of one sort or another and, since those items are generally imported from off island the bulk of that money will actually end up leaving and won’t stick to the local economy.
And I don’t know why you’d want to back out room, food and beverages from the expenditures of air arrivals. That’s money that’s still money that’s spent locally and much more of it ends up in the community in the form of wages, etc. than is the case for cruise visitors.
The cruiselines go where where they will make money, I’ve been on many a cruise over the last 20 years and I’ve been disapointed with many of the dirty and dangerous destinations the cruislines have taken me on the itinerary. If they can sell these destinations we can certainly do better. We still have a beautiful destination and beautiful people. We can do better …if we try.
Hopefull, PTB will have more than enough time to put an action plan in place to satisfy the clients of Bermuda and hopefully start the trend of seeing an increase in cruise lines visiting Bermuda. To everybody else who may have a product to make Bermuda a viable destination, step up your game… I believe in you and in Bermuda’s people to do what is right!
TO ALL OF THE GANG MEMBERS..IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO HAVE AN ONGOING RECESSION OF YOUR OWN…YOUR NONSENSE IS GETTING OLD…WAKE UP, YOU WILL BE CAUGHT AND PROSECUTED IF YOU CONTINUE WITH YOUR MADNESS.
SIGNED: BERMUDA IS MINE AS WELL AS YOURS!
I had “a product to make Bermuda a viable destination,” but the Brown One put me and others out of business in favour of F&F who ultimately dropped the ball due to inexperience (ie: the Amphibious Ducks). As a result, how may independent Shore Excursions are still operating in Dockyard? Not many.