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Falklands included in Norwegian and Windstar cruises, announces Sulivan
The Norwegian Cruise Line operating in South America will be returning to the Falkland Islands for the 2015/16 season after a four year absence, announced Sulivan Shipping Service Ltd. Coordinator Sammy Marsh, who together with the Falklands Tourist Board Manager Tony Mason attended the latest edition of the Cruise Shipping Miami conference. Read full article
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Mar 23rd, 2014 - 09:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Excellent news!
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Cue the 'environmentally friendly' tyre burning and intimidation of old ladies by the Argies-all for a detrimental effect on the Argentine economy. How's the ban on Falkland bound tourist ships working out for you CFK/Gollum?
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 12:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 03 Pete Bog
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm sure that there are ports in Chile or Uruguay that would welcome these cruise ships without all the tyre burning and intimidation of old ladies.
You've got to hand it to these La Campora thugs, they've got it all worked out haven't they?
Great news !!...forever Falklands !!
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The CFK government by its pitiful sovereignty claims and international sulking is continuing to raise the profile of the Falkland Islands and promote tourism. Lol.
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good Call Bob!
We are most amused!
This is good news for the Falkland Islands and for the Islanders themselves. It raises there profile on the International stage AND brings in tourist money to the local economy.
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice one Miss Marsh, well played!!!
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Mar 23rd, 2014 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Agreed. Isn't this where Think comes along and talks about this woman's divided loyalties or murky background or vested interest or that she once returned a library book late. Also that this isn't news because .
Seems like the Gaucho Rivero isn't having the desired effect then, eh Argentina? Oh well, never mind.
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would love to visit the Falkland Islands and venture onwards to the Antarctic. If I can get my money out of Venezuela before it's too late I might still have a pension. ..
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 01 and 10
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 11:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You do realise that this is all part of Think's plans. We think things are improving, cruise ship visits are increasing, the Rivero Gaucho Law isn't working, more ships are planned for 2014/2015 and 2015/ 2016 and more one day ground trips were booked in the 2013/2014 than ever before. Well, er, all those things did happen or are forecast to happen but that's all part of their plan. You'll see. Another nail in the English usurpers' coffin.
Chuckle chuckle
Falklands. The new Dubai. But with a lot more class!
Mar 24th, 2014 - 12:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Soon the Argies will be begging to be your maids! The tips alone will keep a family of 4 for a year.
Looking forward to this!
Apparently no one will be getting off the ships as there is nothing to see on the Falklands.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 01:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is merely a stop so the boats can dump their sewage in the harbor. :)
Oh is Buenos Airies on the itinerary as well?
Mar 24th, 2014 - 02:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0just back from Antarctica
Mar 24th, 2014 - 05:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0got robbed on our first night in BA
Ushuaia better than the comments I read about here
Antarctica magnificent
Falklands were great - had a trip in the FIGS islander
people (and the wildlife) very friendly
(fish and chips were a tad ordinary and expensive)
will definitely go back
#15 Klingon it is precisely for having spent a few hours in port Stanley on a cruise stop several years ago that I am returning for a weeklong stay later this week to get a real taste of what makes the Falklands such an intriguing place.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18 Ok, you can go visit the worlds largest collection of Guano or maybe checkout the toilets at the Stanley racetrack!!
Mar 24th, 2014 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Happy holidays!!
Hey Klingon, I think the worlds greatest accumulation of crap is on the street corners in Villa 31 Buenos Aires. The term 'great air' takes on a whole new meaning around there - phew! The toilets (or lack of them) is the problem, at least Stanley racecourse has somewhere to take a leak.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BA or the Falklands, its got to be Stanley, far more civilised.
Well there is a market for everything. As long as the Falkland Islanders earn a living from that guano and toilet block.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, yes, yes....... I'm sure that Buenos Aires is wonderful at this time of year, you can mix with the pick pockets, drug dealers, government officials ( in some parts of the city, those are one and the same thing ) Muggers, prostitutes, homeless and other assorted low life scum.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Or you can visit the Falklands Islands............. Visit the wide open spaces, visit nature at its rawest, tour one of the last 20th century battlefields and meet some friendly locals.....
And lets face it, One way or another... I bet the Islands will surprise you........
@23 Argentina is much more than BA.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree BA is an absolute dump and for that reason I choose not to live there.
The provence is much nicer.
Had a glorious day today with Asado and wine in the Sun!
Great time of year to be here.
Hows the weather in the Falklands?? Windy and cold as normal?
At one of El Diego's asados per chance?
Mar 24th, 2014 - 08:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If the Falklands are so unappealing, why do Argentineans pine and obsess about it so much?
Cruise Liners operating in South America will be returning to the Falkland Islands,
Mar 24th, 2014 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0After a four year absence,
More and more are rejecting the argentine rubbish dump, for the pleasure and romantic trips to the Falklands,
Enough Said..
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Theres a new tourist attraction on the Falklands now, as well as Gnome corner, so loved by the Germans , there's Joe Bloggs garden! A wonder of the world unseen in Argentina.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I've never really understood why the Argies want the Falklands so much when they obviously so despise the climate and landscape so much.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Should we ask the Pope perhaps?
@20 Klingon ”The largest guano deposits are found in association with Australasian gannet (Morus serrator) colonies that have been occupied for decades. The most extensive of these is on the North Island at Cape Kidnappers, Hawke Bay. They also occur also on several offshore islands, e.g. White Island/Whakaari and on coastal rock stacks.” http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/publications/factsheets/rare-ecosystems/induced-by-native-vertebrates/seabird-guano-deposits.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 09:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 28 They only want what they can't have - just like petulant little children.... and when the RG natives are restless, the Malvinas issue is guaranteed to focus attention away from home.
@29 thanks alsy.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0my question was part rhetoric, and part genuine interest. I'm fully aware of the political chest beating sabre rattling distraction from the economy diatribe. But no harm in restating it. Thanks!
My question is really directed at the Argentine posters and their supporters. Aside from this 'territorial integrity' bullshit, why do want them so much?
I am genuinely interested in getting an answer.
Apparently Argentina is a paradise. Why do they desperately seek ownership of a few windswept Isles?
Seriously. I've never had a coherent answer to this question.
@30 So Kristina can hock off the oil reserves to keep her failed policies going.
Mar 25th, 2014 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0The rest of Argentina couldn't give a flying rats ass about that mound of Seagull sh#t in the sea.
And yet still here talking about it.
Mar 25th, 2014 - 12:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0The oil is very recent find. Doesn't really answer my question.
Mar 25th, 2014 - 03:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0@30 Hi Ilsen, machismo and national pride took a hit (or two) in 1982. Still smarting from losing. If the war hadn't happened, we probably wouldn't be discussing this with such fervor now......although oil has now entered the equation.
Mar 25th, 2014 - 03:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Falklands included in Norwegian and Windstar cruises, announces Sulivan”
Mar 25th, 2014 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so, the falklands are included... well done.
the key question is, who wants to go to the falklands?
nobody?
ok
btw, ms. marsh, you need to lose some weight.
@35 She looks fine to me
Mar 25th, 2014 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe it's because people in Arg are getting thinner on account of the shortages that your perception is changing
@35 PC
Mar 25th, 2014 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Obviously many people do. These Cruise Liners are businesses. Therefore, no customers = no profit.
No expectation of profit = no cruise.
So why include the Falklands without expectation of profit?
These businesses must expect a profit.
The fact that I need to take you step-by-step through this explains why many Argentines fail at business. They expect that through corrupt friends and family influence they can make a profit without effort.
Why else is Crass-tina sucking off (metaphorically) the (now awkward-feeling) Pope and trying it on with nonchalant Hollande? She still believes that old-school mafiosita contections is the way to do business
'en familia'..
Also, the cheap shot at Ms. Marsh just ruins your arguement.
37 ilsen
Mar 25th, 2014 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“...They expect that through corrupt friends and family influence they can make a profit without effort.”
well, that is the government, not all the argentines.
@35 Paul
Mar 26th, 2014 - 09:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0She can get on a treadmill, you'll always be an c**t.
39
Mar 27th, 2014 - 02:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0guess it is better than being a c*nt AND a big ball of fat like you, gordo trolo
@40
Mar 27th, 2014 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are absolutly right I shouldn't have called you a c**t, they're useful.
#35
Mar 27th, 2014 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you really that thick ?
“Falklands included in Norwegian and Windstar cruises”
Commercial cruise lines have decided to include the Falklands in their itinerary. They are in the business of supplying public demand AND making a profit. They must see opportunities in this to make money or else they would not include it in their schedule.
Simple economics or do you know differently.
From the tone of the posts in MercoPress, it appears that the whole of Argentina are desperate to go to the Falklands although very few could afford the cruise..
btw, ms. marsh, you need to lose some weight.
Why this remark ? What has it to do with the subject ?
So you have now set yourself up as an expert on BMI OR is it just a bitchy remark because you can't think of anything else to say.
@4
Mar 28th, 2014 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I'm sure that there are ports in Chile or Uruguay that would welcome these cruise ships without all the tyre burning and intimidation of old ladies.”
Correct-even if these countries pay lip service to Argentina, they don't allow their people to go without jobs and turn away tourist money.
@6
“The CFK government by its pitiful sovereignty claims and international sulking is continuing to raise the profile of the Falkland Islands and promote tourism. Lol.”
And the penny (not the peso) still hasn't dropped-doh!
@11
“Seems like the Gaucho Rivero isn't having the desired effect then”
Daft to name the act after a South American who accepted British sovereignty-then murdered multinational settlers as well as South Americans and got kicked out.
You cannot really say Rivero was successful-whereas the Gauchos in 1833 were the key economic providers on the Islands-a position of power and advantage.(Captain Onslow begged the Gauchos to stay!) Yet Rivero like Argentina screwed everything up.
If he had not murdered Brisbane but held a vote with the settlers against the hated Vernet currency, Rivero could have ended up as a leader of the settlement-with British approval.
Bit like Argentina's Rivero law- an almost totally ineffectual failure which has failed to dissuade cruises to the Islands, in fact the opposite.
And the Argentines still do not understand why.
@15
“Apparently no one will be getting off the ships as there is nothing to see on the Falklands.”
Apparently they will as they would have not paid a lot of money to go on cruises to stay in their cabins.
A source of consolation to Argentina is of course The International Tyre Burning Appreciation society make their annual pilgrimage to BA to enjoy the balmy atmosphere of burning black rubber smoke-all three of them.
They can also get access to see Argentina's other tourist attractions-high rise hotels and their thousands of CT scanners and the plastic factory that makes body parts for CFK
A cruise line is a business. They are out to make money. They would not sail for two days to the Falkland Islands if they were not going to make money out of it for goodness sake! A cruise line accounts for every single day cost wise when planning an itinerary, fuel consumption, days at sea.
Mar 28th, 2014 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also not entirely sure someones weight affects their ability to do their job certainly doesn't seem to be slowing Miss Marsh down any.
42
Mar 28th, 2014 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“From the tone of the posts in MercoPress, it appears that the whole of Argentina are desperate to go to the Falklands although very few could afford the cruise..”
desperate to go to the falklands...
what for? LOL
you are not the brightest of the bunch, are you?
“although very few could afford the cruise..”
cruise?? that´s for old farts like you.
Well off retirees.
Mar 28th, 2014 - 09:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perfect market for tourism.
Way to go Falklands.
#45
Mar 28th, 2014 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well Paul, I am maybe not the brightest of God's creatures but light years ahead of your sloppy “intellect”.
As to flatulence, you distribute copious amounts in your posts.
Lets examine what I said.. We keep getting told that the Falklands are an inseparable part of Argentina and that they are ever in our hearts.
KFC et al. Demonstrations, appeals to the UN and anyone who will listen. Veiled threats against the Islanders. From this, I can only assume that the ARGENTINE population want to go there en masse. Is that an unreasonable assumption ? If they don't, why don't they then shut up and get on with their lives ? A puzzle to us all.
After all., what would you have in your life if you couldn't sound off about the Falklands, Gibraltar and anything negative to do with the UK ?
Self implode in frustrated rage ?
I think I would also be correct in asserting that the average Argentinian would not be able to afford the cruise.
So, cruises are only for old farts like me ? Looking at the demographics of cruises it seems that they cover a wide spectrum of age groups.
I have never been on a cruise but would like to visit the Falklands, South Georgia and the sub Antarctic Islands to visit the wildlife colonies.
I would prefer this to visiting the wildlife found on the streets of B.A.
I have been to S.Africa and New Zealand specifically to see and photograph Albatrosses. They are much more endearing creatures to the version of homo sapiens found on the S.E. corner of South America.
I can hear your whine all the way here when the SW wind blows.
Keep up the snide insults Paul, you have nothing else to say.
clyde
Mar 29th, 2014 - 01:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ From this, I can only assume that the ARGENTINE population want to go there en masse. Is that an unreasonable assumption ?”
it is a bit more than unreasonable. it is, as we say here, una pelotudez.
the fact that the islands are in fact an integral part of argentina, (like gibraltar is an inseparabole part of spain or north ireland is an inseparable part of ireland), does not mean that somebody wants to go to that sh*tty place.
personally i give a damn for those territories, guess the best is not having any kind of relationship with the islanders, the british wannabes, britain and all that pain in the @ss.
in the end they are only squatters and parasites.
@48 paulcedron
Mar 29th, 2014 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0“in the end they are only squatters and parasites.”
In the same way as Argentinians squat on native Indian lands?
“ the fact that the islands are in fact an integral part of argentina”
They cannot be-they are over 300 miles away from a piece of sparsely populated Argentina (pinched off the local Indians).
To be integral, they would have to be part of the Argentine landmass.
If what you say were true-then Cuba is part of the USA, the Faroe islands are part of the UK, the UK belongs to France, Sri Lanka belongs to India, Ceuta belongs to Morrocco, etc etc etc.
#48
Mar 29th, 2014 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Islands are NOT an integral part of Argentina. Just because your govt. says they are does not make it so. Similarly with Gibraltar and Ulster.
No point discussing it as you have been brought up from childhood to believe it. As a product of Irish emigration you will have been filled with the stories of injustice to the Irish....a lot of it true, BUT the clock has moved on. Time to relinquish your bitterness and hatred and get on with your life doing something more productive.
A friendly word of advice from an old fart who has seen it all before.
Argentine posters claim to hate the UK but so desperately covet the Falklands and their British way of life.
Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bit puzzling. ..
maybe they know deep down the British are vastly more superior and more sophisticated and that really bugs them.
There is no other sensible explanation.
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