2023 Cruise season less than 24 hours from launch

All's quiet for now ... but in less than 24 hours that will all change
as the First Cruise ship of the 2023 season arrives at the
Prince Rupert Cruise Terminal

By this time tomorrow morning, the streets of Prince Rupert should see a significant increase in foot traffic, that as a potential 2,124 guests come ashore with the debut arrival for 2023 for the Carnival Cruise Line's Miracle.

The vessel is set to tie up at the Prince Rupert Cruise Terminal at 8AM, with disembarkation to follow shortly after.

Image from Carnival Cruise Lines

The arrival of the Miracle will signal the start of a 53 visit schedule for 2023 to Prince Rupert, with the Carnival line vessel making for ten of those port visits.

Over the weekend some of the last minute preparations were taking place to get the Waterfront area ship shape for the visitors, with volunteers taking part in some clean up events, among them the Prince Rupert Rotary Club which was at work on Saturday.

Also of note from the weekend, a test run for the newest tourism asset for the region, that of the Olde Time Trolley corporation, which as we noted yesterday, was providing for a free preview for locals of what their 90 minute tour program will look like.

One the promenade between Atlin and Cruise Terminals, the progress has stalled somewhat on the placement of the Container Marketplace with three of the colourful containers in place at the moment.

Tourism Prince Rupert provided an update on their plans for the Container market through their Social Media stream.

As part of their info relay they note that their own Tourism Prince Rupert Container  will open at that time.

Tourism Prince Rupert is making use of the container model, while renovations continue to their more familiar space in the Atlin Terminal.

Global Ports Holdings is operating the Prince Rupert Cruise Terminal,  having signed on last year to take over the facility from the Port.

You can see how they are promoting the port call and the region here.

With the Carnival Miracle serving as the icebreaker for 2023, cruise stakeholders won't have much time to take stock as to how Day one went, up next is the Holland America vessel Knoningsdam and her potential of 2,650 guests which arrives on Thursday.

You can explore the full schedule here.

More notes on the Cruise season ahead can be explore from our archive page.