Year 4, Day 189, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 11/05/2024. Clifty Hill 2 – Day 12 of 16-night KY to New Orleans and Day 11 of 14-night New Orleans Carribean cruise on Brilliance of the Seas. Today we are in Costa Maya, Mexico. It is always hot and mobbed with people here. This used to be one of my least favorite ports. That changed the last time we were here. We rented a golf cart for the day. It was the best day we ever had in Costa Maya. Here’s a link to two other times we visited Costa Maya. 1/18/2024 – https://deestimes.com/…/living-the-dream-year-3-day…/ 4/18/2023 – https://deestimes.com/…/living-the-dream-year-2-day…/ This port will soon be changing drastically and will become a Royal Caribbean private destination called Perfect Day Mexico. The opening is scheduled for 2027. It will be like Perfect Day at CocoCay.
Virgin Valiant Lady is already parked as we pull into port at 7am. Virgin Voyages operates a fleet of four ships.
The port is very quiet and nice this morning with only two ships in port.
By 11am it is getting crowded and now we have three ships in port. The Norwegian Getaway is here.
At 1pm Harmony of the Seas arrives, but we have headed back to the ship. Now it is crowded and very hot.
Brilliance of the Seas has a capacity of 2,543 Guests and 848 crew members. Harmony has a capacity for 6,687 passengers and 2,200 crew members. Virgin Valiant Lady has a capacity for 2,770 passengers and 1,150 crew members. The Norwegian Getaway has a capacity for 3,963 passengers and 1,646 crew members. Our ship the Brilliance of the Seas has the smallest capacity, and the Norwegian Getaway has the largest capacity. It is possible that 21,807 people are sitting here at the dock in Costa Maya today. Cruising has become so popular that most ships are currently 100% full. I wonder what percentage of people are getting off the cruise ship here to at least wander around. My guess is probably 80 percent of passengers, and 20 percent of the crew. It really amazes me the amount of people that currently are in this port. If there are 15,963 passengers and 80 percent get off their ship and another 5,844 crew members with 20% getting off. We can have about 12,771 passengers and 1,169 crew members who got off the ship today. That is my estimate. No wonder it is so so crowded. This cruise ship port began operations in early 2001, with two cruise ships per week unloading 1,500 tourists each. Here’s a detailed video of this week’s balcony stateroom 9010.
Everyone is now watching Tropical Storm Rafael
Cruise Daily information:
Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking.
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