Average passenger mix and homeports

[Milwaukee Eight]

Nobody is really from Florida, they just live there

 

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Not true. I am a born and raised Cracker.

 

 

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[John&LaLa]

Not true. I am a born and raised Cracker.

 

 

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Apparently there are around 7 million of you.

[Iamcruzin]

Nobody is really from Florida, they just live there

 

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So true. Sometimes when I visit my in laws in Florida I feel like there are more New Yorkers there than there are in New York.

 

 

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[Milwaukee Eight]

So true. Sometimes when I visit my in laws in Florida I feel like there are more New Yorkers there than there are in New York.

 

 

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Us native Crackers feel the same way. However, we thank them for helping us keep our taxes low.

 

 

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[Iamcruzin]

We have sailed more cruises from Ft Lauderdale and San Juan than from N.Y. because there have not been many choices to sail in the spring from the NY area. We are sailing our first closed loop cruise from Cape Liberty next year. Other sailing have been reposition cruises to NY. There were many snowbirds and Metro area passengers on those.

 

 

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[Iamcruzin]

Us native Crackers feel the same way. However, we thank them for helping us keep our taxes low.

 

 

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The low taxes are the reason they are there. I look forward to joining them in the near future. The last minute cruise deals will be the icing on the cake. My SIL snagged a 7 day cruise on Princess for $125 pp. I spend more at the grocery store in a week.

 

 

 

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[Milwaukee Eight]

The low taxes are the reason they are there. I look forward to joining them in the near future. The last minute cruise deals will be the icing on the cake. My SIL snagged a 7 day cruise on Princess for $125 pp. I spend more at the grocery store in a week.

 

 

 

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Well, just as long as you stay out of the left lane, you will be welcomed here.

 

 

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[pspercy]

We have done lots of cruises out of Galveston, 4 in last 4 years and there are many Texans , too many , music scheduled will have a texan influence which is not to my taste.

 

Yes, they should broaden it some, let's have some Cajun music or even Zydecko :)

[bighairtexan]

Well out of Galveston if you add up the numbers living in Texas and also add the surrounding states, especially Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, you're probably at about 90%+ on most of the Galveston cruises I've been on.

[lbjen]

There were many Texans onboard the

Liberty April 29 cruise. But according to the Captain there were also 39

Countries represented by passengers

 

 

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There is a significant number of expats in Houston, so it’s possible that many of those people from the other 38 countries were also Texans.

[John&LaLa]

Well, just as long as you stay out of the left lane, you will be welcomed here.

 

 

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Tell that to the packs of motorcycles going 3 miles over the speed limit. [emoji6]

 

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[mjkacmom]

We cruise from NYC, live close to the port, and find the majority of passengers are from the northeast. Cruises out of here are generally pricier, and hotels and transportation expensive. If I had to fly to a cruise, there is no way I’d fly here.

 

Our kids always meet other kids on cruises, most live at most an hour from us (they had teen meet ups).

[Milwaukee Eight]

Tell that to the packs of motorcycles going 3 miles over the speed limit. [emoji6]

 

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Thanks for helping me prove my point. Just how many of those motorcycle riders are transplants? Crackers?

 

Our group here, HOG, are nearly all transplants.

 

 

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[TC1957]

I would think it has a lot to do with the ease of getting to the port and the cost of air and hotel in the port cities. Many have said Galveston is not an easy port for those that must fly. People who do not live in Texas and bordering states tend to forget that Galveston was (and is) a tourist destination for non-cruisers and is a very small island. Accordingly hotels on the island are difficult to book, can be expensive and often require a two night stay. However, since you have to fly into Houston staying off the island (in a place like Texas City) can save a lot on the hotel, even when you add the cost of a cab/Uber/Lyft to the port).

 

Flying into other cities (and hotels) can be expensive. For example flights from DFW to NYC and Miami can be really high.

 

It makes sense that expensive/difficult cities would have a higher concentration of locals on those cruises. It is probably because I am a native Texan, but there are many things worse than being on a cruise dominated by Texans. Remember, there are only two types of people...those lucky enough to be born in Texas and those who come here as fast as possible. :D :halo:

[Rala]

Recently learned that 2/3 of the population of the US is closer to Galveston that the Southern Florida ports. Thus the success and pricing of RCI ships out of Galveston. But there is a difference in the passenger "attitude"....that is a comment from crew on Galveston cruises...from simple things like please and thank you to passenger to passenger courtesies. Not to say folks that use other ports lack these characteristics, but the crew on Galveston home port ships "love" working out of Galveston. RCI ships sailing for Galveston usually average 75%+ Texans. (again, per senior crew members).

 

I would agree. We sailed from Galveston a few years ago and most of the passengers were from Texas Many were surprised that we came all the way from New England! Met lots of nice Texans. :D

[kochleffel]

Also it's much easier for the "locals" to score those great last minute reduced rates.

Definitely a consideration for me. I will fly to any port for an itinerary that's right, but I only look at last-minute deals from the ports nearest me--Manhattan, New Jersey, Baltimore. The reduced rate isn't much of a bargain if it requires a high air fare.

[maddie mom]

Just got off Liberty lots of Texans

Polite and a lot of fun. Met one gal from Galveston said she could walk home.

Galveston is a great port

[davy jones]

Northeast home ports attract many passengers within driving distance of the port. That is a lot of potential passengers. There are probably 100 million people or more who live within 500 miles of NYC or Baltimore. I would say that they have a more "regional" clientele than Florida ports, but to say that NYC cruises are all New Yorkers is not true at all. NYC is within reasonable driving distance for a large number of Canadians

 

Ironically, I have met a number of Floridians on longer Caribbean cruises from NYC. The also attract Europeans who add a cruise to a NY trip.

[Tin can]

Adventure out of New York next year is going to have three Brits on it!

 

When we cruised a couple of Easters back on Oasis from Port Canaveral it appeared there was folks from all over the States but also many nationalities. That surprised me a bit.

 

I'm guesting our Port Liberty cruise will be mainly New Yorkers.

[Desert Cruizers]

i would think cruises leaving from the East Coast, that the majority of passengers will be from the mid west, Canada and East coast while cruises leaving on the West Coast would be made up of those from British Columbia and those more to the West Coast. Other cruises seem to attract people from all over the globe.

[ditmar2007]

A comment on another thread got me to wondering, how much of any given sailing is made up of locals, versus out-of-towners? For example, what percentage of passengers onboard Liberty are from Texas, in any given week? Or what percentage onboard Anthem, is typically from the New York metro area?

 

The comment that got me wondering about it, referred to the vibe of each ship, and how it varies. Some of that is attributable to the crew, of course, but it got me to thinking about how much the homeport, and the people from that area, play a role.

 

When we sailed on Anthem a couple of years ago, the cruise director often addressed the crowd as being "New Yorkers", when obviously not everyone was. It made you wonder how many actually were, though.

 

I've only been on one cruise, so far, where the CD said anything about the makeup of the passengers, by country, and that was on Princess. Incidentally, it was then that I learned that yelling out "Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!" is how you identify the Australians in the group. Lol

 

I sailed out of Copenhagen the Sunday before last. A lot of Danes were on board. A TA had arranged a group tour with guides etc.

 

The casino was practically empty all week.

 

We don't have tradition for casinos in Denmark. Until around 20 years ago only one casino existed (legislation). Now there are maybe five - I don't even know. RCI may have lost profit on that trip.

[Tatka]

i would think cruises leaving from the East Coast, that the majority of passengers will be from the mid west, Canada and East coast while cruises leaving on the West Coast would be made up of those from British Columbia and those more to the West Coast. Other cruises seem to attract people from all over the globe.

It depends...

Alaskan cruises are pretty multi-state and international. We also sailed on California coastal and there were pretty multi-state crowd.

Our Boston - Montreal and Boston - Canada - Boston cruises attract multi-state and international crowd.

[TBone2K]

My own experience is the feel of the ship is different depending on the home port. The cruises I have done out of NY I could tell there were definitely more "locals" on the cruise just by the accents, but nothing felt that different.

Florida is harder to tell because as somebody else said, there are people from many different places who live in Florida.

The two biggest changes I noticed in the ships were cruises from Galveston, TX and Copenhagen. Texas they ship was slightly more oriented to the pax in the sense that they replaced the usual Filipino cover band with the Bubba Feathers Band (ya I'd never heard of them either, but the Texans all seemed to know them) and one of the featured entertainers covered a lot more country music than others shows. As for Denmark, they did mention that over half the ship was Danish... Announcements were made in Danish and English and MDR put out appetizer cheese plates every meal as well as (according to our waiter) increased wine service.

[Milwaukee Eight]

Some ships and cruises are different based on the length. There is definitely a different feel to a cruise out of Miami for a 3/4 night versus a 7-11 night cruise.

 

 

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[cruze daddy]

We are from Ontario, Canada. For us it is a 8 1/2 hour drive to Bayonne. We have sailed out of there three times now, once about 4 years ago, last Dec (2017) and again last week. We like to be able to drive to the port, and like the cruises that start and finish from the same port. I use a scooter, and have a lift in our van so that we can transport it. I have never flown with my scooter, but have heard some horror stories from some who have. We also drove to Quebec City for a east coast cruise about 3 years ago.