Post by tiddles on Apr 2, 2012 15:26:39 GMT 1
From the Tele:
These 65,550 (does the Tele have access to the passenger bookings from all the cruise lines?
?) tourists are no more visiting Greenock than air passengers landing at Prestwick Airport are visiting the town of Prestwick.
So far as I can see, the only people to make out of this are Peel Holdings who own Clydeport and maybe Primark and the pound shops for the poor, underpaid and overworked foreign crews who spend their time in the bowels of these so-called ships.
Doubtless all the wee polo-shirted ladies will turn up waving the tartan and inviting all the bemused travellers to partake of Greenock's, "state of the art leisure centre" or take a donner roon the cut. Old Wilson will be there too in the hope that he and his followers get invited on board.
BOTTOM LINE :
Greenock is NOT a tourist destination, it's a depressed industrial town replete with junkies and neglected elderly and sick people. I wish the Tele and others would stop suggesting that the Container Terminal is the Grand Harbour in Valetta!
OCEAN Terminal bosses are busy gearing up for the peak cruise season, with more than 65,550 tourists visiting Greenock this year.
These 65,550 (does the Tele have access to the passenger bookings from all the cruise lines?
?) tourists are no more visiting Greenock than air passengers landing at Prestwick Airport are visiting the town of Prestwick.So far as I can see, the only people to make out of this are Peel Holdings who own Clydeport and maybe Primark and the pound shops for the poor, underpaid and overworked foreign crews who spend their time in the bowels of these so-called ships.
Doubtless all the wee polo-shirted ladies will turn up waving the tartan and inviting all the bemused travellers to partake of Greenock's, "state of the art leisure centre" or take a donner roon the cut. Old Wilson will be there too in the hope that he and his followers get invited on board.
BOTTOM LINE :
Greenock is NOT a tourist destination, it's a depressed industrial town replete with junkies and neglected elderly and sick people. I wish the Tele and others would stop suggesting that the Container Terminal is the Grand Harbour in Valetta!
