Falkland Islands 2012/13 cruise ship season brings new luxury visitors
Luxury super yacht MY Sherakhan, is one of four vessels new to the Falkland Islands visiting in the 2012/13 season beginning next month. More often spotted in the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas, she also ventures further afield to Patagonia, Antarctica, French Polynesia, Asia, and Panama.
Regatta (Prestige Cruises) Ocean Diamond (Quark) and Arcadia (P&O) will also pay inaugural visits.
The season will begin gently with the first vessel, Ushuaia arriving in Stanley on October 6, carrying 84 passengers and returning on October 20.
Two of the smaller class of vessels Polar Pioneer and Ocean Nova will also visit later in the month, with the far larger Costa Romantica planning to drop anchor in the Islands on October 27.
Approximately 50,000 passengers will visit Stanley according to the most recent cruise ship schedule released this week, with AIDACara, Star Princess, Arcadia, Veendam, Celebrity Infinity, Grand Princess and Golden Princess disembarking between 1350 and 2500 of their guests onto Stanley Seafront.
During the season which runs from October until early April, around 90 ship visits are currently scheduled, however, due to severe weather or various logistical difficulties not all normally take place.
Last season 35,159 visitors landed; this was reduced from the expected number due to eight vessel cancellations. Seven of those were due to bad weather and one was health related.
While Stanley will take the bulk of the visits, vessels also plan to call in to New Island, West Point, Carcass Island, Bleaker Island, George and Barren islands Sealion Island and Volunteer Point.
Shipping agents Sulivan Shipping report that they will have five passenger exchanges using LAN this coming season, with one company also having a week long cruise extension in the Falkland Islands.
So far the schedule shows relatively few days where more than one large vessel will visit Stanley on the same day, however on February 19 Stanley tourist guides will be out in force to look after approximately 3,500 disembarking visitors. (PN)
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“Last season 35,159 visitors landed” for 3,000 islanders.
So Argentina needs 35,159/3000*40,000,000=468.8 million visitors to keep pace with the Falklands. GREAT!!!
Are there 468 M idiots in the world who can afford Argentina prices or have the wish to go there? Mmmm. Let me thing about that for 1/googol seconds, er, NO.
Ha, ha, ha, ha etc.
To be fair, Argentina has now just joined the rugby championship, so that's a reason to visit. But there's a story that two members of the NZ management team were mugged for valuables. From the Daily Telegraph:
“The government has not released insecurity figures since 2008, but a recent report by the Organisation of American States found Argentina's theft rate to be the highest in the Americas. ”
If you don't watch out, they steal your camera, your wallet, your phone. Even your Islands!
good old falklands,
if you want the best, you have to visit the best.
The Argy blockade obviously isn’t having any detrimental effect on the Falklands tourist trade.
Shine on you Falkland Islands.
The more they hate, the better the Falklands will be,
The more they blockade to better the Falklands will be,
Less CFK does, the more better the Falklands will be,
Soon Argentina will be an irrelevance,
And the Falklands will be the place to be seen in.
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Btw, i'd really like to visit the Falklands one day. Some people i know, went there for a day.
I'd LOVE to go to Argentina, all the Argentinians i have met in person have been jolly good chaps/chapesses and the wildlife and countryside... gawd yes, please. (not too mention catching a footbal game, the women, the night life!)
(Which is kinda why i never could figure out how hard it could be for an Argentinian government to persuade 2000 people to climb-aboard..sheesh.. how hard can it be!)
“how hard it could be for an Argentinian government to persuade 2000 people to climb-aboard”
Yes, it's a wierd kind of logic in CFK trying to persuade countries who have nothing whatsoever to do with the South Atlantic to support Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands yet ignore the very people whose birthright means they matter. As you say there's only a few thousand people to convince which doesn't say much for their powers of persuasion. Apart from the fact they think they can bribe people to support them instead of develop intelligent arguments.
Face
@10...loss of face? May be a good thing for KFC... they may issue her with a nicer one....
The total equals about US$ 1 800 per Falkland islander, man, woman and child. Not so bad, really.
(Which is kinda why i never could figure out how hard it could be for an Argentinian government to persuade 2000 people to climb-aboard..sheesh.. how hard can it be!)”
Perhaps because the British empire has been historically powerful...
The British Government has not denied the Falkland Islanders the choice to become part of Argentina if they want, so the UK's past empirical role is irrelevent.
It is the Argentine's own South Atlantic Imperial ambitions that are dissuading the Islanders from being Argentine and @14 Benson's evaluation qualifies that.
Says a lot for it.
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