WHATS THAT TO SAY FOR US??????????

BERMUDA IS STILL ANOTHER WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They already have everything to do at home thats why they want to go somewhere different, somewhere relaxing!

Make gaming legal with a national lottery and it will be hotels, jobs, etc going around like crazy!!!!!!!

Casinos would get us out of debt for sure!!!!!!!!!

Maybe you should research the revenue created just from shipping and pilotage fees!

I say leave the channels as they are. Cruise ship passengers are bottom feeders of tourism. If we even had $150 mill to do the job, we should build a new hotel at Club Med and put a casino in it. That would bring the tourists. Course we dont have the money. So nothing can be done anyway.

Bermuda, Hamilton and St. George’s in particular, is a profitable, beautiful destination for the right ships.

As long as this government continues to look at widening the channels to allow the over-sized cattle wagons (sorry, ships), the cruise lines will not consider purpose building ships for our harbours and channels. Their profits are huge on the mega ships while we suffer trying to compete with these ships (which for many, the ship IS the destination and not Bermuda) for the passenger dollars.

Stop pandering to the cruise conglomerates – say NO to widening the channels – find a cruise line willing to invest in ships suitable for Bermuda without destroying our limited natural resorces.

We struggle to move cruise passengers around our island as it is with two mega ships in Dockyard. How can we cope if two more mega ships, one each in Hamilton and St. George’s, drop an additional 5-6,000 ashore. More buses on the road? More fast ferries? Our infrastructure can not handle it.

$150 million for the channels?
$150 million for additional infrastructure?

I think we have a billion or so of debt already.

I don’t want my great-great-great-great grandchildren to be still paying this off.

Get real.

It’s clean, friendly, Beautiful Throuhout, no poverty, no Mass begging on the streets, humble, and the list can go on and on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE STILL HAVE SOMETHING HERE, WE JUST NEED TO REALIZE IT!!!!!!!!!

The cruise lines are not telling there passengers don’t in certain parts, don’t shop here and there, Bermuda is still considered a safe place in comparision to other islands around the world.

WHY ARE WE SO AFRAID OF CHANGE??????
THE WORLD IS LEAVING US BEHIND, FAR BEHIND TOO!

LETS BE REAL PEOPLE!!!!!

The tender process shortens there visit as well! It takes more time to tender people to and from as oppose to them walking on and off the ship as they please, anytime of day or night!!!!!!

THINK ABOUT IT BERMUDA, IT’S TIME TO MAKE THAT CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAKE UP BERMUDA, IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE IF WE WANT TO COMPETE ON THE WORLD STAGE OF TOURISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It would be stupid not to!!!!!!!!!!

Be at the meetings people. Don;t let your Gover(n)ment spend our money on such a stupid idea.

And your correct with the product.

Get the product up to date, they will come.

Damn….gotta update my Pilots Licence………Cum hup dee Narrahs, hang ah laft, pick hup Vasten Bloo Cutt….go Soufff….detz rite……ann eye’l ewan take yoo two dee little Sahn….detz rite……………………..

Even if a ship couldn’t dock in the harbour, there are destinations where tendering the passengers to the shore is the norm.

If the destination is worthwhile, the tendering shouldn’t be a problem for the majority of the passengers I don’t imagine.

In any case, my comments (before putting them to paper) were meant to be infavour of investing in Bermuda’s product, but perhaps that was lost in translation.

The freeking QE II has come and gone. Aircraft Carriers in the Great Sound.

Someones looking out for a ‘consultants fee et al’.

Who gives a shit if it’s high end-low end cruisers.

Get the ships in or fill the freekin cut and we all can go back on another Deliverance…..

I freeking give up………………………..

Changing the size of the channels seems like an investment geared towards making Bermuda accessible to larger numbers of budget clients who will continue to spend their money onboard.

I would hope that a comparative study is or has been performed to determine how we can make Bermuda as a destination more appealing to the upscale small-ship traveller looking for an exotic or otherwise enjoyable off-board experience.

If I had to spend $xxx dollars on a capital project with naturally risky returns, I’d rather spend it on something that I would be able to enjoy as well rather than literally investing in a bigger whole in the ground.

Suppose we still don’t get the big ships or small ships to come in? At least us residents (whether local, term-limited, or whatever other status) would be able to enjoy the investment.

At the end of the day, a destination with happy people is a preferrable destination.