5,000 passengers come ashore as Britain's biggest cruise ship docks in Palma
P&O flagships makes second visit to Palma
An estimated 5,000 passengers were expected to come ashore in Palma on Friday morning as Britain's biggest cruise liner, the P&O flagship Arvia, docked in Palma. With a displacement of 180,000 tons she was the biggest cruise ship in the port.
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I watched one of these poison ships in Palma this week - belching black smoke into the air, engines turning over, whilst swarms of its wrist band wearing tourists, choked the streets of Palma. Hideous. No wonder locals are protesting :(
Stan The ManWell going on past experience, if you are a first class female passenger or a first class child, you are pretty safe. First class male not so much. Third class of any description, there is not a lot of hope so suck it up and find a bar to ease the waiting.
Stan The ManI think someone has all this in hand Stan, don't worry mate
Yet again! More misery mobs and pongy pollution for Palma. Controls? My Ar5e! And to add insult to injury to this shipbuilding city born Martian, the bloody thing was built in Germany!
I talked about this to a Palma jewellery store owner who I thought would be delighted by the large numbers but he's not. He makes the point that 95% of cruise passengers pass by and the 5% who stop just look ask questions and mostly don't buy anything. Meanwhile his regular clients can't get served and so he is in danger of losing their all-year round custom. I see the hoards from the ships but what I don't see are purchases. Very few shopping bags. So all that's happening is we're clogging-up Palma with no reward to the local businesses. What is the point of that?
Look at tomorrow's figures. Over 10,000 extra people on the streets. Restaurants complaining about lack of customers ain't getting my money because I'm avoiding town.
My concern about these huge vessels, is in an evacuation emergency, how many of those thousands of Passengers would survive? Plus with a full load of Passengers, meal queues etc. must be horrendous!!.
totally in line with the actual problem of Majorca being overcrowded with empty pockets tourists.... non sense
P&O , a British company and no doubt very patriotic. What better use for this behemoth than moored up somewhere fairly remote around the UK, strip out all the luxury items and double or triple each cabin accommodation and bingo, perfect temporary living for 12.000 + illegal immigrants whilst the gov. works out where to send them.
Not welcome here. These horrible boats with their passengers that add nothing to the local economy should not be allowed. Just more congestion in our narrow streets and more pollution wafting across the cities as they burn dirty diesel fuel 24/7 even while in port.