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Carnival Cruise Lines - Port in Maimon
Read a little more of the port if you like.
www.usatoday.com/story/cruiselog/2015/09/03/amber-cove-cruise-port/71630154/
www.usatoday.com/story/cruiselog/2015/09/03/amber-cove-cruise-port/71630154/
Many thanks for these wonderful pictures and there are so many trees planted that I feel sure that there will be much shade .great contribution.
i have a sneaky suspicion there is a point in this posting, somewhere. now if only Max would tell us what it is.
of course Carnival knows what they are doing. they have done this every where they have been. the whole idea is revenue capture. their business model is to make as much money as possible in a destination, and to leave as little for the locals. anyone who reads up on the subject knows that. studies on the subject have shown that the average spend in the caribbean is less than 100 dollars per visitor. some islands have high spends, like St Maarten, because of a highly developed in bond market operation. the same applies to the Virgin Islands. others have very low amounts. the DR average spend is somewhere about 90 dollars per tourist. the way things are set up, we will be lucky if 10% of that money stays in the country. so, this whole promise of the unleashing of a cornucopia of riches in the area flies in the face of all historical evidence to the contrary. it is no different than any other caribbean port of call, wherein the cruise line gets the bread, and the port dwellers get the crumbs.
Carnival to revive Dominican Republic?s tourism juggernaut
Carnival to revive Dominican Republic?s tourism juggernaut
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.- It?s possible that when the world?s biggest cruise ship company named him its CEO in June, 2013, Arnold W. Donald had never heard of tiny Maimon, a sleepy little cove nestled in Dominican Republic?s lush Atlantic coast.
On Monday Carnival Corp., in the voiced of Donald, confirmed to foreign and local media that it?s just weeks away from ribbon-cutting on its US$85.0 million cruise port project named Amber Cove, which can dock two ships and receive nearly 10,000 passengers during an 8-hour visit.
He said his company is willing to take on the challenge of establishing an enduring foothold in the area of Puerto Plata, despite the city?s failure to sustain a viable cruise tourism business that went belly up in the early 1990s. ?First of all we are working with the local government officials and businesses?this ensures success because what is good for them is good for us.?
Once open the port at Maimon is expected to have such an impact on the once-thriving area that the government is even widening the around 8-kilometer road from Amber Cove?s entrance to Puerto Plata to four lanes, giving passengers the option of a quick day trip to the city with nearly 500 years of history, culture, architecture and cuisine.
Carnival has announced the port?s inaugural headed by president Danilo Medina for the first week of Oct., and said it expects as many as 23 ships from its eight brands, offering 42 varied tours for its passengers, and perhaps even reawakening Dominican Republic?s tourism juggernaut from its quarter-century slumber from the cruise industry.
Amenities
The 25 acre land layout features transportation and entertainment facilities, administrative area and even a sky bar and zip lines for passengers who prefer to stay close to the ship.
Source: DT
Carnival to revive Dominican Republic?s tourism juggernaut
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.- It?s possible that when the world?s biggest cruise ship company named him its CEO in June, 2013, Arnold W. Donald had never heard of tiny Maimon, a sleepy little cove nestled in Dominican Republic?s lush Atlantic coast.
On Monday Carnival Corp., in the voiced of Donald, confirmed to foreign and local media that it?s just weeks away from ribbon-cutting on its US$85.0 million cruise port project named Amber Cove, which can dock two ships and receive nearly 10,000 passengers during an 8-hour visit.
He said his company is willing to take on the challenge of establishing an enduring foothold in the area of Puerto Plata, despite the city?s failure to sustain a viable cruise tourism business that went belly up in the early 1990s. ?First of all we are working with the local government officials and businesses?this ensures success because what is good for them is good for us.?
Once open the port at Maimon is expected to have such an impact on the once-thriving area that the government is even widening the around 8-kilometer road from Amber Cove?s entrance to Puerto Plata to four lanes, giving passengers the option of a quick day trip to the city with nearly 500 years of history, culture, architecture and cuisine.
Carnival has announced the port?s inaugural headed by president Danilo Medina for the first week of Oct., and said it expects as many as 23 ships from its eight brands, offering 42 varied tours for its passengers, and perhaps even reawakening Dominican Republic?s tourism juggernaut from its quarter-century slumber from the cruise industry.
Amenities
The 25 acre land layout features transportation and entertainment facilities, administrative area and even a sky bar and zip lines for passengers who prefer to stay close to the ship.
Source: DT
denial is an ugly thing: http://hoy.com.do/casi-concluyen-obras-requiere-pp-para-relanzamiento-turistico/
ready? in less than a month? maybe few hundred meters at best will be done by then...
ready? in less than a month? maybe few hundred meters at best will be done by then...
you should go through to see what i mean. the part closest to the port is nicely widened and flattened. maybe 700 meters of it. some areas are completely untouched. some areas are being worked on but there are buildings in the way, still standing. there is no road surface. no trenches. no curbs. slopes on the side of the road not fully secured.
Well I am glad that you have been there to comment authoritatively on the matter dv8 and glad you are getting around. Not like others who maintain that they are experts and have never set foot in this project nor in Punta Cana/Bavaro and yet make strong comments . I have not been to the project but I love the area with the hills and rich farming land and all the quaint artisan shops . I hope Carnival makes a good profit and then they will stop there more times and that will give more income to the peopleliving in the area .
i have great respects for the commentary of DV8, but i fail to understand how you have never been to the site, yet you can proclaim that dv8 has commented authoritatively. it is a massive undertaking, and i personally believe that they are doing a whale of a job. that is from having seen it at least 3 times per week.
i sense sarcasm here. i travel this road frequently and i know how it looks now and how many months it has taken so far. i drove past there on saturday. i'll probably have to go to santiago few times this week so i will try to take some pictures. the road is nowhere near completion. it will be a great thing if they finally fix it but it will take much longer than 29 days. at best, they will open a stretch from the port to riu and a bit further, top of the hill maybe. and it's still long way to go to POP and the entry to the city is still the same, narrow, bottleneck bridge.
NO you are quite wrong dv8 ..it was a very innocent remark ..There are so may comments made by people on situations that they have no first hand knowledge of , but you saw and reported what you saw , so I call that authoritative . I only mentioned about getting around because you seemed to me to have dug yourself a bit of a hole in another thread .
I now have a variety of reasons to head north, none the least a report that the Playa Grande Golf Course is back in shape .
I now have a variety of reasons to head north, none the least a report that the Playa Grande Golf Course is back in shape .
