everybody it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce welcome to my video today
today's video is all about the Achilles heel that cruise lines have those of us
who want to go on a cruise this is what we're looking at when we have a day at
sea it's a wonderful way to go when we pull into a port like like Venice these
are the images that we want to see this is what we've been sold by the tour
companies by the cruise lines that all is well we're welcomed here with open
arms any place we go we are more than welcome well it's not quite the case
everywhere you go drinks for instance here Bar Harbor Maine the beautiful
citizens of Bar Harbor they just had a vote they voted against building a port
a dock facility that could handle 500 passenger cruise ships or larger in
other words any cruise ship with 500 more passengers you're not welcome in
our town stay out in the harbor tender in we don't want you just walking off
the ship and flooding our little downtown area I mean after all Bar
Harbor is a small place it only has eight thousand odd voters and as it is
already with the summertime when passengers come off the cruise ships
they head to the information booth and they overrun the place it's a bit much
and so Bar Harbor is trying to limit the number of passengers to come in by at
least not building a dock facility now you know you can look at this gorgeous
scenery you can see why passengers would want to come here but those who come
here in the summertime for their cottages they want to get away from
everything they don't want to be surrounded by tourists everywhere I can
understand that meanwhile in Charleston South Carolina
there is a battle brewing six years there have been court cases going on now
between the citizens of Charleston who want to preserve the downtown area of
the historical area and the port of Charleston the port of Charleston is
open for business they want more business they want a brand new terminal
building they've agreed to build one if they get the win the residents are
fighting mad saying no way there's smoke coming off the smokestacks the parking
is out of control the noise it is ridiculous we don't want it and the
battle is now going to the Supreme Court in South Carolina we'll see how that
goes back to Venice how would you like to be the tourists on the left trying to
visit st. Mark's Square and then have a riot police line separating you from the
residents who are saying get the hell out of my city this is becoming worse
and worse and worse the Italians are passionate and there's a whole bunch of
folks in Venice that do not want the cruise ships coming to town anymore it's
too much too soon and they want serious restrictions we'll see how that plays
out over in Germany where it's you know quite sophisticated but people are quite
well behaved this past weekend in Kiel Germany near Humbert
look at this protesters held up the xuer Dam from all in America for five hours
the ship could not leave port because they are protesting pollution from
cruise ships well this pollution from everywhere
folks it's not just a cruise ship issue it's a mankind issue but the protesters
had an easy target they just canoed all around the ship and
created havoc five hours it took for the police to get rid of them in the
meantime the island of Majorca in Spain the beautiful place they've got a
problem too popular 3.45 cruise ships a day are coming into port dropping off
fifteen thousand tourists all day long who want to do well this and join the
others who are doing this already who fly in the folks at my ARCA saying no no
no this is too much let's cut back one ship a day not for ships a day it's
getting ridiculous we'll see how that plays out it's not all peaches and cream
everywhere you go and as a cruise ship passenger you have to ask yourself am I
really welcome some of these ports sometimes you got a little bit of
homework now the city that's really been having troubles the folks in Dubrovnik
here where they shot a lot of scenes for the TV show called Game of Thrones poor
Dubrovnik it's a UNESCO World Heritage Sites a beautiful little area down there
the problem is gazillions of cruise ship passengers and regular tourists coming
in by bus train and everything else and poor Dubrovnik
is just being over run with thousands thousands of people who want to adorn
the place in effect they're loving it to death
how would you like to be a cruise ship passenger on this tour are you having
fun yet can you get a nice selfie I mean isn't this set just goes to show you how
overcrowded some of these cities are Dubrovnik has put restrictions in place
for I think eight thousand passengers a day only now instead of twenty we'll see
how that goes to join me folks Monday to Friday five o'clock Eastern Time
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