What happens when five ships all land in the same port on the same day? An armada on the water and population boom on the shores.
It happened on January 6th at Phillipsburg, St. Maarten. In port were the Carnival Dream, the Sea Princess, the Emerald Princess, the Oasis of the Seas and the Celebrity Solstice.
On the shore, Phillipsburg’s population grew by 17,000, or by the size of some entire U.S. towns, such as Middleton, Wisconsin.
We talked to a passenger who had the foresight to pre-order a cab for the day. While there is a practical limit to the size of taxi fleets on small islands, many in the Caribbean get used to seeing that many people land on their shores and, somehow, they get through the 10-hour rush with smiles on their faces and dollars in their pockets.
That’s it, we’re done.