A total of 329 cruise ships visited B.C.'s capital this year, carrying 715,000 passengers from April through Thursday.
On Thursday, the last cruise ship of the season docked at Victoria’s Ogden Point, bringing down the curtain on the cruise ship season.Simone Kearney-Rodriguez owns a gift shop at Ogden Point. She says the return of cruise ships was vital to her business, which faced down financial peril during the pandemic.
A total of 329 cruise ships visited B.C.'s capital this year, carrying 715,000 passengers from April through Thursday. This was the latest the season has ever run, and this year marked a record number of ships. Samantha Wilson Newton is with the Wilson Group – the company that operates buses that take cruise ship passengers from Ogden Point to Butchart Gardens. She says the return of the ships has been a big deal.
"Government Street is the oldest street in Victoria. It was the welcoming from James Bay — which should have brought the cruise ship people up here," she said ruefully on Thursday.
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