Next year looks likely to be a record breaker for the Manx cruise business.

Ten ship visits are already booked in with the liners due bring over 6200 visitors to the Island.

The latest to arrive this year will be next Tuesday 19th September.
The MS Clipper Adventurer ( see photographs) is on a ‘Ryder Cup (Dublin City Hotel) and Celtic Links by Sea’ specialist golf cruise.
It extends the Manx cruise ship season and bring welcome visitors to the shoulders of the tourism year.
She will arrive from Troon to berth in Douglas at 08:00. The ship, with nearly 200 passengers and crew, will be the sixth to visit in 2006. The majority of passengers will get the chance to play a round at Castletown Golf Links. Tours to Castletown and on the Snaefell Mountain Railway have been arranged for those passengers preferring to take in the sites and the sights.

The 4,300 ton Clipper Adventurer is a regular visitor to our shores. She was last here in June of this year and is scheduled to return in July 2007. She is an expeditionary cruise ship and will be spending our winter cruising Antarctica, The Falkland Islands, Cape Horn and Chile.

The Clipper Adventurer is an ocean-going vessel equipped with an ice-strengthened hull (A-1 ice class) suited for cruising in remote environments such as Antarctica, but very comfortable anywhere she sails. She has Zodiac landing craft to provide access to areas where no infrastructure exists. The vessel is equipped with state-of-the-art satellite navigation and communication equipment including telephone, fax, and e-mail.