When additional housing is needed in a port city and there simply isn’t any other way to provide it – cruise ships may be the solution. Here are a few examples of successful dockside programs managed by Landry and Kling.
2 Floating Hotels For 5th Summit of the Americas & CHOGM 2009
Two full cruise ship charters provided supplemental housing for the 5th Summit of the Americas and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad and Tobago. In order to supplement the 1,700 existing hotel rooms in Port of Spain, the National Secretariat of Trinidad and Tobago engaged Landry & Kling to arrange for ship charters to provide an additional 3,500 rooms dockside for a period for 14 nights. (See Case Study)
Cricket World Cup 2007
The Barbados Tourism Authority requested the assistance of Landry & Kling to secure a full ship charter for a total of 26 nights. The ship was utilized in 3 different ports to supplement housing for international fans of the Cricket World Cup hosted in Barbados, Grenada and St. Lucia. The ship sailed from port to port transporting fans to games in 3 countries and serving as a dockside hotel for more than 10,500 guests.
5 Floating Hotels For Superbowl 2005
The Jacksonville Host Committee chose Landry & Kling to source cruise ships for Super Bowl 2005 because the city’s inventory of nearby hotel rooms fell short of NFL requirements (6,000 people). Ship selection was a complex process due to environmental and technical requirements, physical impediments for ships approaching the berthing points, unbundling of meal pricing and other modifications of ship service. Most challenging: however—how would Jacksonville accommodate 5 ships with only 1 passenger terminal? (See Case Study)
International Customer Visit & Trade Show
Landry & Kling chartered 2 ships on behalf of a technology company to serve as floating hotels in Boston where they were to host international customers during their a new product showcase (15,000 people). Lead time for the new product launch was less than a year away, and hotels were already sold out for October—the busy fall foliage season in Boston. Chartering 2 ships seemed to be an ideal solution to the housing dilemma. But securing ships wasn’t easy because our client’s heart was set on using Queen Elizabeth 2 for the added publicity it would create, and Cunard had already locked in that ship’s schedule elsewhere for the year. What was the happy ending? (See Case Study)
Pharmaceutical Companies Prescribe Ship Charters
Landry & Kling chartered 2 ships as floating hotels in New Orleans during the American Heart Association’s annual meeting to provide supplemental housing for pharmaceutical companies and international physicians/guests. (1900 people)
The American Heart Association’s annual meeting for physicians and pharmaceutical companies had outgrown the available hotel rooms in New Orleans. Nine pharmaceutical companies found shelter by chartering 2 ships adjacent to the convention center. In addition, the ships also provided private meeting space and reception opportunities with on-site catering and entertainment in a unique venue to attract attendance at their product education seminars. (See Case Study)
