The 650-foot Seabourn Odyssey tied up in Wrangell on Sept. 5, the last of its eight stops this summer. The ship is not scheduled back next year, though its sister ship, the Seabourn Quest, is on the 2025 schedule, contributing to the estimated 40,000 cruise passengers that could come to town next year. That would be almost twice this summer's visitor count.
Though not yet final, the initial draft of the 2025 cruise ship schedule estimates around 40,000 passengers could arrive on cruise ships next year, an increase from just over 20,000 in 2024.
Most notably, the number of larger ships (vessels that hold over 1,000 passengers) is expected to about triple. This summer, the largest ships made three port calls in Wrangell: the Nieuw Amsterdam once in May and the Queen Elizabeth twice in July. Both ships have capacity for just over 2,000 passengers.
Next summer, there will be 11 port calls from large ships, according to the preliminary schedule provid...
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