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St Kitts Sees Cruise Boom |
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In what must be a record year, eleven cruise ships will be
visiting St Kitts for the first time this winter according to the country’s
prime minister, Denzil Douglas who revealed that these would include the Allure
of the Seas, Jewel of the Seas and Voyager of the Seas from Royal Caribbean,
Carnival Valor, Celebrity Silhouette, Mein Schiff 2 from TUI Cruises, Saga Ruby
and Saga Pearl 2 from Saga, the Seabourn Quest, Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth and the
Thomson Dream. St Kitts has done much in recent years to attract new cruise passengers. Its most popular attraction is the St Kitts Scenic Railway, a three-hour 30-mile circular tour that cover 18 miles by narrow gauge train and 12 miles on sightseeing buses. Built between 1912 and 1926 to transport sugar cane from the
island’s plantations to the sugar plant in Basseterre, the “Last Railway in the
West Indies” provides visitors an unsurpassed opportunity to experience St
Kitts, passing beaches, sugar cane fields, mountains, villages, pineapple
fields, banana trees and crossing over several ravines on tall steel girder
bridges, as well as offering wide vistas of the nearby islands of Nevis, St
Barts, St Maarten, Saba, and St Eustatius. Each passenger gets two seats for the double-deck train tour, one in the air-conditioned lower parlour and one on the covered observation deck above. The carpeted parlour has huge six–foot vaulted windows, and is furnished with cushioned rattan chairs at inlaid tables. Train tickets can be bought aboard most cruise ships operating to St Kitts, where it is projected that 650,000 cruise ship passengers will visit this year. |
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