The newest liner of the Cunard fleet, Queen Anne, docked in Palma this morning on her maiden visit to Mallorca. She can carry a maximum of 3,000 passengers and many were busy enjoying the delights of Palma this morning.
Welcome to Palma, Queen Anne! The best of British
Luxury Cunard liner docks in Palma
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Yes it is too big for us here but I must say it is a fine looking ship, built along the lines of an ocean cruise liner, unlike most of them nowadays that are floating blocks of flats. Re the yes or no smoke, I doubt shore power could handle something this big, unless the port authority have sneakily built their own power station . And remember we have had up to seven in port at any one time.
"Best of British": Built in Italy, registered in Bermuda, owned by Carnival Corporation. "One of the biggest cruise ships in the world", absolute tosh, here are 69 larger ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cruise_ships and there's still 20,000 gross tonnes between the smallest of those and Queen Anne.
So, it was departing then? Because there's this really cool innovation (started around the mid 1900's) called "shore power". It eliminates the necessity to run the engines while in Port.
I went to Porto Pi today at 11-30, trust me, there was thick black smoke coming out of the red funnel.
Obscene is it really a good idea to have that in Mallorca , you write articals every day against Tourists and and Torisim in general but when royalty is involved it’s All Good ?
Has anyone on the staff been reading MDBs recent stories? Residents don’t want to be clogged with over tourism. Especially 3000 cruise tourists who spend pennies, clog the streets and travel on pollution spewing oil tankers. This is exact what Palma doesn’t need. Seriously, read your own copy guys.
Nothing whatsoever to celebrate here IMO. Just a deluge of 3000 more tourists clogging the streets as they shuffle along behind a tour guide, whilst spending peanuts on a coffee / ice cream and maybe a postcard before rushing back to the ugly boat for another bottomless all you can eat buffet. This ship symbolises everything that is wrong with the Mallorcan tourism model.
Marvin Le MartianSilly sod, they are clouds.
You’re at it again Jason with your love affair with the cruise companies. It’s an awful looking ship and look at what’s coming out of its funnel? Nice. The passengers might well be clogging up Palma but I doubt very much they’ll be eating or spending very much with 14 restaurants to choose from on board. Why do they bother calling in on ports at all? They are totally self-contained towns.