Tourism Director Elmeader Brookes said Nevis, which has about 500 hotel rooms, could accommodate about 350 people. The small island, with only 9,000 residents living on 36 square miles, would have to send some of the passengers to St. Kitts, which has more than 1,700 hotel rooms. Gweneth Maynard, a teacher at the local Gingerland High School, stood watching the ship with her school students. It's not very often that something like this happens right in our immediate area. Ships of this size do not usually stop in Nevis, though Mistral has made stops in the past at St. Kitts.
Cruise ships tend to anchor offshore and passengers are tendered into port.
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