Jun 14, 2007
For the sake of your sanity, avoid those overly-popular ports in the Caribbean
I recently returned from a trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands, stunned as always by their awesome beauty but astonished by the impact that the cruise industry is now having on these tiny islets. With dozens of giant, 2,000- and 3,000-passenger cruiseships now sailing each week in winter, there are days when a little town like Charlotte Amalie in St. Thomas receives as many as five ships in port at the same time, spilling 10,000 to 12,000 passengers (and more) onto a delicate infrastructure. Nowadays, in my view, the smart seagoing American simply has to select those cruiseships that go to the smaller, more exotic, lesser-known islands that do not receive multiple visitations each day.
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