Norwegian Sky in Portand Harbor Today Normally Carries About 2,000 Passengers.  This Cruise Carried About 1,200 Passengers.

The Massive Carnival Venzia in Portlad Today Must Have Made for Long Lnes in Some Impotamt Places on Commercial Street..

“NOW you tell me,” said Linda Kelley, a passenger on the cruise ship Norwegian Sky this afternoon.  “I’ve been looking for a bathroom ever since I disembarked from my cruise ship this morning.  “NOW  you tell me,” she repeated. Several unidentified friends with her nodded in agreement with Kelley.

When told that the city’s Visitor’s Center at Ocean Gateway had public bathrooms and other amenities for visitors,, she was surprised.  “I didn’t know about the Vsitor’s Center.  If the city of Portland wants to attract tourists, it needs to do better than this,” Kelley said.”All the stores along the waterfront have signs sayig No Public Restrooms. What are the handicapped supposed to do?
Accessibiliy is a problem here in Portland,” as several friends with her nodded their heads in agreement again.

Kelley is a resident of Vienna, Virginia, and owns her own consulting business, Norman Associates.

This is not the first year that this blogger has heard from visitors to the Portland waterfront about the lack of facilities for guests to the area.  Many of the visitorsd to Portland aboard cruise ship passengers – who are often in need of a comfortable seat to take a break from walkg along Commercial Street.  This sblogger has in the past heard numerouos complaints from visitors unable to find seating along the waterfront.