Cruise industry boost for city as more ships set to call (From Daily Echo)

More customers for the Sea Museum, great investment.

aldermoorboy wrote:
More customers for the Sea Museum, great investment.

Irrelevant

Very good news. So will the Echo now stop obsessing about Liverpool's cruise business? Looks like there's enough to go round.

The AIDA Cruises’ ships will be unmistakable sights on Southampton Water with their highly distinctive livery including a huge pair of red lips and blue eyes.

The ship is very unusual and certainly attracted a lot of attention when it called at Liverpool in 2012.

Aida Cara 1 for the Aida docking in Liverpool's River Mersey landing stage June 16 2012

AIDA Cara was built for Deutsche Seetouristik/Arkona Reisen as a Clubschiff (Club Ship), and was launched in 1996 under the name AIDA.

When P&O Cruises purchased a controlling stake in Arkona Reisen in 1999, they transferred the ship, and it became part of the new AIDA Cruises fleet, and was named AIDA Cara, after two of its sister ships entered operation, AIDAvita and AIDAaura.

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Maybe they could redirect some of that money towards re-surfacing the roads since the road tax budget has gone seriously awry! It's like driving through the Conga, driving along and playing dodge the pot hole. I'm going to start billing the council for damaged tyres soon.

Given that the ships will only be in port for a day, I feel the turnaround schedule for day trip to London will not be possible, and even salisbury, possibly new forest is optimistic. Still, we have the sea museum, shopping centre and Shirley to tempt visitors with.

aldermoorboy wrote:
More customers for the Sea Museum, great investment.

They have not bothered so far, so what makes you think it will be any different.
The Echo came closer to the real truth, people are not interested in the turn around port, passengers tend to come here on the day or maybe the night before joining the ship and when returning leave the city on the same day.
Visiting ships have better effect on a local economy but they are not likely to go pass the bargate very much.

hulla baloo wrote:
Given that the ships will only be in port for a day, I feel the turnaround schedule for day trip to London will not be possible, and even salisbury, possibly new forest is optimistic. Still, we have the sea museum, shopping centre and Shirley to tempt visitors with.

Hulla do me a favour, just as the sun as setted and your in that half light take a look to the west towards where the sun as setted, see if you can see that comet it will only be in view for a few more days

southy wrote:

hulla baloo wrote:
Given that the ships will only be in port for a day, I feel the turnaround schedule for day trip to London will not be possible, and even salisbury, possibly new forest is optimistic. Still, we have the sea museum, shopping centre and Shirley to tempt visitors with.

Hulla do me a favour, just as the sun as setted and your in that half light take a look to the west towards where the sun as setted, see if you can see that comet it will only be in view for a few more days

What are you drinking/smoking this morning?

southy wrote:

hulla baloo wrote:
Given that the ships will only be in port for a day, I feel the turnaround schedule for day trip to London will not be possible, and even salisbury, possibly new forest is optimistic. Still, we have the sea museum, shopping centre and Shirley to tempt visitors with.

Hulla do me a favour, just as the sun as setted and your in that half light take a look to the west towards where the sun as setted, see if you can see that comet it will only be in view for a few more days

.. will be very difficult to see because of the light pollution we suffer from in the Southampton area - and that's if it's not cloudy.

hulla baloo wrote:

southy wrote:

hulla baloo wrote:
Given that the ships will only be in port for a day, I feel the turnaround schedule for day trip to London will not be possible, and even salisbury, possibly new forest is optimistic. Still, we have the sea museum, shopping centre and Shirley to tempt visitors with.

Hulla do me a favour, just as the sun as setted and your in that half light take a look to the west towards where the sun as setted, see if you can see that comet it will only be in view for a few more days

What are you drinking/smoking this morning?

nowt just that as been a comet in that part of the sky for a while now, just not had the weather to be able to see it from here when it was higher up in the sky, i hoping you might be able to see it from your location, its the first of 6 new ones that going to be passing though our solar system that we will be able to see with the naked eye, the one in november promises to be a very good one, they reacon that one will be as bright as the moon and more likely be able to see it during the day, if you can see it try and get a picture of it, if you can

No doubt the cruise business is looking like it is on the way up. For Liverpool..

freefinker light pollution will not come into play that time of the evening. and still even in the full of night light pollution would not stop you seeing it, it is to bright not to be able to see it, its just clouds that would stop it being seen

kingnotail wrote:
No doubt the cruise business is looking like it is on the way up. For Liverpool..

It certainly is and who can blame them when they have such an interesting place to either embark, disembark or stop off for a day trip.

I am sure that a large number of passengers will stay for a day or two either before their cruise or after as there is so much to see and do.

Proud from LIVERPOOL wrote:

kingnotail wrote:
No doubt the cruise business is looking like it is on the way up. For Liverpool..

It certainly is and who can blame them when they have such an interesting place to either embark, disembark or stop off for a day trip.

I am sure that a large number of passengers will stay for a day or two either before their cruise or after as there is so much to see and do.

I should have also stated that the locals are also very friendly and welcome visitors / tourists .

Proud from LIVERPOOL wrote:

Proud from LIVERPOOL wrote:

kingnotail wrote:
No doubt the cruise business is looking like it is on the way up. For Liverpool..

It certainly is and who can blame them when they have such an interesting place to either embark, disembark or stop off for a day trip.

I am sure that a large number of passengers will stay for a day or two either before their cruise or after as there is so much to see and do.

I should have also stated that the locals are also very friendly and welcome visitors / tourists .

Certainly there seems to be a good deal of enthusiasm about the cruise industry displayed on this forum by (presumably exiled) Liverpudlians.
The Liverpool Echo reports a 25% increase in cruise calls in Liverpool this year to 38.
This is less than Southampton gets in a busy month and the ships are much bigger here.
However rather than look upon this as a positive there are some locals who prefer to naysay.
These were probably the same people who were up in arms about 10 years or so again when Carnival were suggesting they might base the QE2 in Harwich or Dover.

Proud from LIVERPOOL wrote:

Proud from LIVERPOOL wrote:

kingnotail wrote:
No doubt the cruise business is looking like it is on the way up. For Liverpool..

It certainly is and who can blame them when they have such an interesting place to either embark, disembark or stop off for a day trip.

I am sure that a large number of passengers will stay for a day or two either before their cruise or after as there is so much to see and do.

I should have also stated that the locals are also very friendly and welcome visitors / tourists .

Do that include Lime Street

Proud from LIVERPOOL wrote:

Proud from LIVERPOOL wrote:

kingnotail wrote:
No doubt the cruise business is looking like it is on the way up. For Liverpool..

It certainly is and who can blame them when they have such an interesting place to either embark, disembark or stop off for a day trip.

I am sure that a large number of passengers will stay for a day or two either before their cruise or after as there is so much to see and do.

I should have also stated that the locals are also very friendly and welcome visitors / tourists .

Shame about the crime figures which show an increase ..... with the exception of burgulary and drugs ...... Well thats in Riverside

southy wrote:

aldermoorboy wrote:
More customers for the Sea Museum, great investment.

They have not bothered so far, so what makes you think it will be any different.
The Echo came closer to the real truth, people are not interested in the turn around port, passengers tend to come here on the day or maybe the night before joining the ship and when returning leave the city on the same day.
Visiting ships have better effect on a local economy but they are not likely to go pass the bargate very much.

You have the full visitors figures then.

Please share so we can make up our own minds rather than go with your own bias 'statistics'.

You obviously have no conception of what Lime Street is except for reference in the folk song Maggie May.

For your enlightenment " Southy ".

St George's Hall is on Lime Street in the centre of the English city of Liverpool, opposite Lime Street railway station. It is a building in Neoclassical style which contains concert halls and law courts, and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. On the east side of the hall, between it and the railway station is St George's Plateau and on the west side are St John's Gardens. The hall is included in the William Brown Street conservation area. In 1969 the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner expressed his opinion that it is one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world although the building is notable for its use of Roman sources as well as Greek ones. In 2004 the hall and its surrounding area were recognised as part of Liverpool's World Heritage Site.

Before you knock my home city, I suggest that you and other doubters
study the vast amount of culture on offer here in Liverpool and try and emulate it in Southampton . I'm sure their is plenty of culture in Southampton and I wish you luck in your attempt to gain the title " city of culture "

Proud from LIVERPOOL wrote:
You obviously have no conception of what Lime Street is except for reference in the folk song Maggie May.

For your enlightenment " Southy ".

St George's Hall is on Lime Street in the centre of the English city of Liverpool, opposite Lime Street railway station. It is a building in Neoclassical style which contains concert halls and law courts, and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. On the east side of the hall, between it and the railway station is St George's Plateau and on the west side are St John's Gardens. The hall is included in the William Brown Street conservation area. In 1969 the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner expressed his opinion that it is one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world although the building is notable for its use of Roman sources as well as Greek ones. In 2004 the hall and its surrounding area were recognised as part of Liverpool's World Heritage Site.

Before you knock my home city, I suggest that you and other doubters
study the vast amount of culture on offer here in Liverpool and try and emulate it in Southampton . I'm sure their is plenty of culture in Southampton and I wish you luck in your attempt to gain the title " city of culture "

Good luck, most people from Southampton have never left and think Winchester is 'the North'. Probably why they think their 30 years-out-of-date dump of a city is some kind of Shangri-La..

I hope we beat those bloody scousers on Saturday

Great news, we may even see some amenities and leisure facilities built for the city now (just no more cinemas thanks).

Terry_Nutkins wrote:
Great news, we may even see some amenities and leisure facilities built for the city now (just no more cinemas thanks).

How about get rid of two of the ones that are already there and build a large, new, and most importantly quality one?

kingnotail wrote:

Proud from LIVERPOOL wrote:
You obviously have no conception of what Lime Street is except for reference in the folk song Maggie May.

For your enlightenment " Southy ".

St George's Hall is on Lime Street in the centre of the English city of Liverpool, opposite Lime Street railway station. It is a building in Neoclassical style which contains concert halls and law courts, and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. On the east side of the hall, between it and the railway station is St George's Plateau and on the west side are St John's Gardens. The hall is included in the William Brown Street conservation area. In 1969 the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner expressed his opinion that it is one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world although the building is notable for its use of Roman sources as well as Greek ones. In 2004 the hall and its surrounding area were recognised as part of Liverpool's World Heritage Site.

Before you knock my home city, I suggest that you and other doubters
study the vast amount of culture on offer here in Liverpool and try and emulate it in Southampton . I'm sure their is plenty of culture in Southampton and I wish you luck in your attempt to gain the title " city of culture "

Good luck, most people from Southampton have never left and think Winchester is 'the North'. Probably why they think their 30 years-out-of-date dump of a city is some kind of Shangri-La..

Lime street Liverpool & Southampton, Castle Street Glasgow & Portsmouth all had the same reputation and it was not a good one, all four of these roads are well known around the world.

Good grief Southy, you now appear to be an expert on Liverpool, Glasgow and Portsmouth as well as Southampton.
I really dont believe that Lime Street in Soton had a bad reputation around the world. It is a small road behind East street.
Lime Street, Liverpool, is probably best known as the city's main railway station with a big hotel at its entrance (and another one, the 'Adelphi', round the corner) and the fine old buildings around William Brown street, opposite.
However the reference in the song to Maggie May not being able to walk down Lime Street anymore does suggest the station area may have been the haunt of a certain type of lady in the past.
However places like Scotland Road and the areas around the Liverpool Docks may have enjoyed more of a 'reputation'.
Similarly Northam and Chapel would have been been classed as the 'less salubrious' areas of Soton pre war