Cruise ships on the Waterford Estuary

bookworms

Just went to see the latest cruise ship sail down the estuary. What a sight to behold. I wonder will any more ships pay a vist to the city this year? The place could do with a boost from tourism. I'm surprised the estuary is not used more like this if I am honest. It is a great amenity and after the success of the Tall Ships last year, it has been proven the harbour can cope with the large vessels.

Faq

Was a lovely sight.

Finnbar01

Pictures please.

Trick of the Tail

Yea, we could do with a load of tourists coming in, to give the local hotels the chance of quadrupling their prices like they did last year to make absolutely sure that the tourists get the impression that we're an expensive place and won't ever come back.

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mike65

Now now! The Tall Ships race was the prefect opportunity for price gouging and it was taken.

Here's a nice boat

strangepaddy

heres a list of some ships that are suppose to be dropping by

http://www.portofwaterford.com/cruisecalls.php

now i googled some of those ships and they're MASSIVE! so not quite sure what to make of it all

paul-2008

Here's two pics i took of the ship on Friday night!

Kotek Besar

Superb photographs! What camera are you using?

Nypd

As far as I know that dock had a lot of work done to it before the tall ships so it could accomadate the cruise liners.
We should be seeing a lot more of these kinds of ships in the city.

paul-2008

Kotek Besar wrote: »

Superb photographs! What camera are you using?

Using a Nikon D80!

Hifive

How about this old style one from a few years ago.
Taken when she was at anchor in Dunmore East. A real beauty in my opinion.

Max Powers

pity we dont have decent facilities for a couple ships to moor over there.

• gangways
• easy access to city by walking
• make that area look nicer
• other facilities over there

ex_infantry man

Max Powers wrote: »

pity we dont have decent facilities for a couple ships to moor over there.

• gangways
• easy access to city by walking
• make that area look nicer
• other facilities over there

i think the next thing on the agenda should be this cobh has facilities like this and attracts the larger liners

jad2007

The main difficulty trying to copy Cobh's success is the depth of the river in the city. The Frank Cassin wharf and even Bellview are to shallow for the biggest liners. In fairness WCC are very active in trying to attract liners to the city and the number is up on previous years.

It would be nice to see the North quay tidied up though, but as there is no sign of development probably not going to happen any time soon.

Trick of the Tail

Kotek Besar wrote: »

Superb photographs! What camera are you using?

A man was at a dinner party, and being a keen photographer was showing the hostess some recent shots he'd taken.

"Wow," she said, "What camera are you using?".

The man ignored the question.

The meal was served a while later. The man took a mouthful and said to the hostess: "That's lovely, what cooker are you using?".

Kotek Besar

^^

........... :eek:

mike65

Arf! Well to be fair some hostesses would love to impress the guests with talk of Smeg and Miele

taken with a Ricoh XR-P

calvin_zola

this ship will be in dunmore all day on Friday

Aruba08

calvin_zola wrote: »

this ship will be in dunmore all day on Friday

very disappointed 7 year old here with the lack of the Marina. Huge obsession with aircraft and cruise ships. I presume the weather delayed things

south

you could keep an eye here and it might show up.. http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

Aruba08

south wrote: »

you could keep an eye here and it might show up.. http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

thank you so much ...just found it and its destination will be cobh. Damn!! Crazy weather here in dunmore though to be fair