Cruise passenger invasion could overwhelm the town

IS Falmouth actually ready or even willing to cope with an extra 200,000 cruise ship passengers a year (West Briton, May 22, “£150m overhaul of docks is planned”)?

- Tim Brown

This number of visitors spread out more or less evenly throughout the season is no doubt doable. However, with cruise ships it’s a completely different ball game. Carnival Cruise Line’s Excellence-class ships can carry up to 6,600 passengers and, as the ship will in all likelihood only berth for one day, that’s an awful lot of people to come ashore all in one go. I have seen this effect in action. On a recent trip to an Atlantic island, where cr