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SPARE A THOUGHT for anyone serving coffee in the city centre this morning…
Four cruise-liners are JAMMED into Dublin Port today – and they’ve sent some 10,000 tourists into the city centre for a look around.
It’s the busiest day ever for cruise tourism in the port, in fact.
The ships – measuring between 200 and 330 metres – all arrived in a four-hour window early this morning, between 3.30am and 7.
End-to-end, they’d measure a kilometre in length (but obviously, they’re not parked end-to-end).
weareDublinTown / TwitterBusy day for our Ambassadors in Dublin Port today with 4 cruise shops arriving full of passengers to greet. pic.twitter.com/a5FZOmBSu7
— weareDublinTown (@weareDublinTown) July 23, 2015
Philip Bromwell / TwitterWe're (not) gonna need a bigger boat. The four luxury cruise liners in Dublin Port, with 13000 passengers on board pic.twitter.com/0oxBAO1ZvM
— Philip Bromwell (@philipbromwell) July 23, 2015
Significant planning and research had to be undertaken ahead of the inaugural visit of the 333 metre MSC Splendida earlier this year – up to that point, it was the largest vessel ever to berth in the port.
One of the ships arriving today is just three metres shy of that length: the 330 metre Royal Princess. Elsewhere, the Celebrity Silhouette is 319m long, the MV Horizon is 208m and the Magellan is 222m long.
Like the MSC Splendida, both the ‘Princess’ and the ‘Silhouette’ had to reverse into the port in a complex manoeuvre coordinated by Harbour Master David Dignam and the port’s pilots, assisted by tugs Shackleton and Beaufort.
According to Dublin Port:
Cruise ship arrivals typically deliver a €100 per passenger spend, meaning an economic boost of €1.3million for the city today. These ships’ passengers originate primarily from the United States of America, France and Great Britain.
Philip Bromwell / TwitterCruise liner MV Horizon (208m) from the Great South Wall, Dublin. One of four cruise ships to have arrived this am pic.twitter.com/XMaFglkYXy
— Philip Bromwell (@philipbromwell) July 23, 2015
Philip Bromwell / TwitterMagellan (222m) -4th cruise ship arriving at Dublin Port this am. Biggest day ever for cruise tourism in the capital pic.twitter.com/Smz91OzQaC
— Philip Bromwell (@philipbromwell) July 23, 2015
(If you want to see more of the ships – it looks like Philip Bromwell of RTÉ News is all over this one: check out their bulletins later, I’d imagine).
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€100 spend per person, so that’s a taxi to town, breakfast, a quick look around, 2 pints and then a taxi back again ;)
So small business get some money… It’s all good.
Actually Mark, boats provide bus transfers, creating employment for drivers and coach companies. The day trips from the boats go to many places such as powerscourt, Bru Na Baine, Slane, national stud and many other locations
Well Wayne, I presume the bus trips are not compulsory so Mark’s analysis is still valid.
Wayne, a €1.3m spend is always a great injection to the local community. You might have just missed that my original comment is a little tongue in cheek.
Martin over 90% of those disembarking take a day trip, the key word is “average” plenty of research and stats about what cruise tourism brings to Ireland
Apologies Mark of I interpreted your comment incorrectly
No apologies necessary Wayne, I’ll have to work harder on my rhetoric.
This is more of the enormous FG/Labour conspiracy to try to make out things are improving.
If you go down to the docks there are no cruise liners. They have simply doctored these images to fool people.
I refuse to stop being miserable.
Life is as bad as ever.
Wont’ pay, can’t pay!
Don’t be kidding yourself that people from cruise liners spend a fortune in the City Centre.. I pick up a fair few of them in my Taxi and a good majority complain how expensive the city is.. A woman recently told me she had been in a few cities before Dublin and she was shocked how expensive Dublin was. Said the only monet she spent was on the taxi and a cup of coffee.. Plus cruises are all inclusive, people fill up bags with food supplied by the ship before they head out for the day..
David try getting out of the taxi and walking along Nassau street. Most will have purchased a small memento of Dublin, most will stood for a coffee or a beer
Taxi up and down the Quays Mark 15 each way 30 Euro for 2 People. Pint each 5 Euro, 15 Euro max for each breakfast. im at 70 Euro Total Mark. I dont know how you managed to get 200 Euro for a couple ? When thats quite frankly a lie.
Stupidity….
You can also call it stupidity then you don’t understands somebody’s joke or irony
One of the big thrills for US tourists visiting London was to be photographed with a policeman. Good luck with that in Dublin.
But they can possibly get smashed with a bottle by a thug in O’Connell street and then visit one of our zoo like A&E departments.
how many of them will get assaulted or harassed by junkies?
The scary thing is a vast majority of them will be,especially for change at the luas if any of them use it.
I can’t go to Croke park without it happening , and it was a lot more extreme than asking for change.
Some people obviously have “victim” written of their foreheads. Get yourself a pepper spray if you’re so scared.
It’s nothing to do with being a victim, personally I have no problem telling an addict where to go, but when a tourist who comes here with barely any English gets harassed by these people it can be quite scary for them, and in turn paints a very bad picture of our capital city for them.
Victim?? He wasn’t long moving to someone else.
A vast majority of 10,000 people are going to assaulted or harassed by junkies are they, Ray? You must be a very scared person.
I live at Croke park (200m south) – walk every day down to LUAS morning and sometimes late night. Maybe we live in different cities.
“Vast majority” is such a gross exaggeration
Maybe it’s just me but I live in one of the “roughest” areas in the city centre but I see a lot of undesirables harassing tourists for money, have never seen them getting violent. But hey opinions and a-holes and all that.
A nice stroll down the Broadwalk have a look at the junkies and sc–bags in their natural habitat, oh the joys of cruising
The boardwalk is rubbish, try your cruising in the Phoenix Park instead, plenty of action.
Take me away, please!!
I’m embarrassed to have these tourists come into this part of Dublin. If tourism Ireland want to have any repeat customers in the future and not just bad press I’d be seriously linking with the Gards, Dublin city council, Luas security etc to ensure the safety of these tourists. Luas straight into the middle of O’Connell street from the Port…sitting ducks!
Ignorance is bliss for you, all passengers disembarking tend to use one of the many day trips options laid on by the cruise company
Do they get free time to roam around the city or get a Luas back up to the ship? would they possibly wander towards O’Connell street at some stage where we saw an incident of a Welsh tourist attacked within 2 hours of his arrival the other week? Luas or not our national thoroughfare is surrounded by obvious dangers. My main point, in case you missed it, is this. Our representatives need to do far more to protect not just the people of Dublin but also ensure continuity of good prosperous tourism like this. Is that a terrible thing to ask for?
I would actually say the security of the city for all users, residents and visitors is important. Dublin is not unique in having crime and the targeting of tourists, be it Barcelona, or Paris there are areas that present a greater danger to visitors.
My concern would be that you think O’Connel street is the premier street in Dublin & the DCC pretending it is too! Nassaue street gets a far higher number of tourists on a daily basis
It certainly is important, I’m glad you’re seeing the actual point now, eventually, but are we meant to think because Barcelona, Paris etc. have high crime rates for tourists that it’s somehow ok for it to happen in Dublin too? If something can be done to ensure the security of tourists it obviously should be and the Gards, tourism Ireland etc need to link up to make this happen. O’Connell street is a danger (and the main thoroughfare – read a book) among other hot spots and something needs to be done, simple as!
“Read a book” try to remain mature and Maintain some class. O’Connel street is the main thoroughfare in DCC and people’s imagination. It’s decline in the 80′s has never been reversed and now streets such around the creative quarter are the main tourist areas ( as trinity, national library, museum etc) are all in close proximity.
No matter how hard you try crime will be an issue, even in city’s like Zurich Langstrasse in places is not dissimilar to O’Connel streets level of risk
Spare a thought for the crew from the Philippines many of whom are working for tips only, six to nine months on with zero paid leave.
what negativity
Jeez, people here sound like Dublin is a war zone.
Coaches, coaches, EVERYWHERE!
Great for Dublin but (not to be a party pooper) but is this actually a case of poor scheduling and potentially not so great for the tourists themselves?
At most ports around Europe there will be more than one ship. It’s just how it goes. It’s a bonus if you are the only one.
Dublin finally has an Apple Store – the Celebrity Silouhette has one!
Saw this amazing ship anchored in the bay recently – great to see it coming into the port this time.
Dublin port are employing staff to give each disembarking passenger a free gash to the head, with complementary stitches, this will mean they are less likely to be assaulted once on Dublin streets, and are free to roam without being assaulted by some junkie and/or by a person with 40 previous convictions but is just from a broken home so is grand like..
They will also receive a free voucher for a pint of the black stuff from Ireland’s favourite British multinational, Diageo!
;-) ww
Just wear pyjamas and they will think you are their cousin from up the road
If you are a tourist you are welcome to spend money.
Should have brought their navies for bodyguards the way things are going in the fair city.
Maybe the tour operators could bring the tourists down the country to see the guards painting houses and cutting silage.
It is ironic that while cruise liners are bringing foreign visitors to our shores, Irish navy ships are gathering migrants from the sea to bring them to Italy. Would it not be better if Irish navy ships could be employed giving day trips to visitors around Cork harbour or Dublin Bay.
Chris, plenty of tour company’s offer that service, like Dublin bay cruises etc.
Our navy is on a humanitarian mission in the Mediterranean, an excellent use of its limited and underfunded resources , to help our fellow humans in suffering
I can just see a cruise liner pulling up in Westmeath…
More seriously, these liners do call into other ports around Ireland. Despite the plethora of cruise ship in Dublin stories in The Journal, it’s probably bigger business in Cobh than in Dublin. Other places that see liners come in are Galway, Bantry and Dunmore East, plus Derry and Belfast in The North.
I hate it when I realise a reply has appeared as a post in its own right…
It is great to see tourists coming to Ireland, if only the government would agree to spend more money on making rural Ireland more sustainable for tourism.. Greenways are an obvious attraction in all counties and need further development.
They may be good for Dublin business but they’re not worth one cent to anywhere else in the country..
and no I’m not knocking this happening in Dublin but it would be good to see efforts to make other ports bigger to accommodate cruise ships like the smaller ones mentioned in this article..
Ships are not parked! They are docked.
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