The Norwegian Bliss arrived with 50% capacity when it docked in Juneau on Monday.
A crowd gathered on Monday afternoon to greet the Norwegian Bliss — the first large cruise ship to dock in Alaska in 2022.
“If it’s 10 people we’re excited. If it’s 3,000 people we’re super excited,” McDonnell said. “Just to see happy people on the streets again and visitors getting to come enjoy my hometown is the best.” “It means ‘welcome back, Juneau!’ It means our economy should be springing up from here. And we’re pretty excited about that,” she said.
“Those were successful last season,” he said, noting that last year’s season was an abbreviated one — only 10% of the usual number of cruise ship visitors came to Juneau.
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