Western Nunavut’s Cambridge Bay sees yet another cruise ship – NunatsiaqOnline
September 01, 2016
Cruise line picks Cambridge Bay as Northwest Passage turn-around point
CAMBRIDGE BAY — They came, they walked around town in red parkas and rubber boots, and they left. All on Aug. 31 over a few hours.
The 150 passengers on board the Hapag-Lloyd Cruises ship, the Bremen, wore basically the same fire-hydrant colours that those from the Crystal Serenity cruise had sported two days previously, but they were different.
These passengers, nearly all from Germany, had paid $14,000 and more per person for a 19-day round trip from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland through the Northwest Passage and back on the much smaller and more modest Bremen.
They appeared more expedition-minded than the predominately Americans who had pulled themselves away from the Crystal Serenity’s spa treatments and restaurants to tour Cambridge Bay Aug. 29.
