{"id":20154,"date":"2022-12-28T00:43:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T00:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/one-millionth-passenger-sails-from-major-us-homeport\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T00:43:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T00:43:29","slug":"one-millionth-passenger-sails-from-major-us-homeport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/one-millionth-passenger-sails-from-major-us-homeport\/","title":{"rendered":"One Millionth Passenger Sails From Major US Homeport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As a quickly rising cruise homeport, the Port of Galveston has welcomed a couple of million cruise passengers in 2022. The fortunate 1,000,000th visitor set sail on December 22, 2022, aboard Royal Caribbean International\u2019s <em>Adventure of the Seas<\/em> for a 4-night vacation itinerary.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-1-000-000-guests-through-port-of-galveston\">1,000,000 Guests Through Port of Galveston<\/h2>\n<p>Dallas resident Kathy Wade and her household have been honored as the town\u2019s one millionth cruise visitors by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/galveston-cruise-port-guide\/61229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Port of Galveston<\/a><\/strong>, with a group of presents and a brief ceremony to mark the event.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is our sixth cruise this year,\u201d<\/em> <strong>Wade stated.<\/strong> <em>\u201cWe love to cruise and we love Royal! We\u2019ve been on the Adventure of the Seas several times.\u201d<\/em> Balloons and fanfare greeted the household, with enjoyable presents for everybody to take pleasure in. Various port officers have been readily available with their congratulations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><picture decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-91378 sp-no-webp\"><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Courtesy: Port of Galveston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019re very happy for the Wade family. We\u2019re also happy to mark this milestone for the port and our cruise partners,\u201d<\/em> <strong>stated Rodger Rees, Galveston Wharves port director and CEO.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt shows that cruising from Galveston is back and moving full steam ahead! This is great news for avid cruise travelers like the Wades, for all the local people who work in cruise-related jobs and for the entities that benefit economically.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rees additionally acknowledged how environment friendly and dedicated to security the port\u2019s employees, safety, longshoremen, and different workers have been to welcome a million passengers to the bustling port, which is now the fourth busiest cruise port within the United States, and the ninth busiest on the earth.<\/p>\n<h2>Cruising From Galveston<\/h2>\n<p>At the second, the Voyager-class <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/things-to-know-about-royal-caribbeans-adventure-of-the-seas\/40895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adventure of the Seas<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is providing 4-5-night Western Caribbean sailings, and is only one of a number of cruise ships homeporting from the jap Texas cruise port. Another Royal Caribbean ship, the Oasis-class <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/impressive-facts-royal-caribbean-allure-of-the-seas\/21916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allure of the Seas<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, is the biggest cruise ship homeported in Galveston, and is providing primarily 7-night Western Caribbean itineraries.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Caribbean International <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/royal-caribbeans-new-cruise-terminal-opens-in-texas\/87182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opened a $125 million cruise terminal on the Port of Galveston<\/a><\/strong> in early November, particularly designed to accommodate that cruise line\u2019s mega-ships. Furthermore, MSC Cruises can be <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/msc-cruises-and-galveston-confirm-step-toward-new-terminal\/90864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">engaged on an settlement for one more cruise terminal<\/a><\/strong> on the port to service their vessels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><picture decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-61281 sp-no-webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Credit: Roy Luck (Flickr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Disney Cruise Line\u2019s <em>Disney Magic<\/em> and three ships from Carnival Cruise Line, <em>Carnival Vista<\/em>, <em>Carnival Dream<\/em>, and <em>Carnival Breeze<\/em>, are additionally homeported in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the ships provide a variety of cruise lengths and fashionable port locations to Texas vacationers, or anybody flying to the Lone Star State for the last word oceangoing getaway.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the Port of Galveston is scheduled for 362 homeport sailings, a brand new file within the port\u2019s historical past because it first welcomed visitors in 2000. The very first cruise ship to welcome visitors in Galveston was Carnival Cruise Line\u2019s <em>Celebration<\/em> \u2013 the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/former-carnival-cruise-ships-where-are-they-now\/20751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">authentic Holiday-class vessel that served the cruise line from 1987-2008<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 million folks stay inside a 300-mile (483-kilometer) radius of Galveston (roughly a 5-hour drive), making it a preferred drive-in homeport for a lot of. Furthermore, George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston is simply 70 miles (113 kilometers) from the cruise port, making it handy for fly-in vacationers as effectively.<\/p>\n<picture class=\"ss-hidden-pin-image sp-no-webp\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/one-millionth-passenger-sails-from-major-us-homeport\/91372\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/galveston1.jpg\" data-pin-description=\"One Millionth Passenger Sails From Major US Homeport via @cruisehive\" style=\"\"><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] As a quickly rising cruise homeport, the Port of Galveston has welcomed a couple of million cruise passengers in 2022. The fortunate 1,000,000th visitor set sail on December 22, 2022, aboard Royal Caribbean International\u2019s Adventure of the Seas for a 4-night vacation itinerary. 1,000,000 Guests Through Port of Galveston Dallas resident Kathy Wade and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/galveston1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cruise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}