We’ve seen the cruise ship all day and still there. Does anyone know why it’s there? Emergency stop for storm up north or? Just curious. Thx

Its residents voted to visit Zihuatanejo. They will be here until Thursday evening.

Minimum assets of owners has to be 10M US$. By invitation only.
Maybe a few of them could finish to pay for the Sotavento adventure… lol

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/the-world-luxury-ship-one-square-meter/index.html

Thus the arrival of the gobernadora. Maybe someone on board would like to invest in Guerrero.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/the-world-luxury-ship-one-square-meter/index.html

Appreciate that info Rob. Gracias!

I find this interesting. Normally when I’ve watched cruise ships pull in before, there are some passengers on the verandas or on exterior walkways, and maybe some on top of the ship on an exercise track. However, on the MS World, it’s a complete ghost town. Maybe there are not many “in residence” at the moment. Or they are sleeping in!

I suspect they're all belowdecks awaiting to take the shuttle boats to the pier to get off the ship for a while and enjoy our beautiful town.

Oh, and I was right. The gobernadora went with the mayor to "inaugurate" his ugly new concrete alleyways to the beach at La Ropa. We'll be lucky to have any public lands with actual dirt on them except the Unidad Deportiva after 3 more years of this mayor. He ruined the garden we used to have in front of our home and turned it into a concrete alleyway, too, lit up too bright like a damned carnival all night long.

https://www.cruisemapper.com/ships/ms-The-World-1119

I find this interesting. Normally when I’ve watched cruise ships pull in before, there are some passengers on the verandas or on exterior walkways, and maybe some on top of the ship on an exercise track. However, on the MS World, it’s a complete ghost town. Maybe there are not many “in residence” at the moment. Or they are sleeping in!

Gracias Rob! Do you know if there’s a formal time and place set for her La Ropa visit? We would enjoy seeing this, if in fact it is some sort of public speech/event.

They're going to "inaugurate" something, so look for the most recent work by the mayor. The artisans' market? I imagine they'll be there shortly after receiving the first passengers disembarking from the ship. No idea what their time schedule will be.

Thanks Rob! Do you know if there’s a ceremony of some sort taking place today?

She'll be at the pier and later at La Ropa with the mayor. I don't believe she'll stay the day.

There’s a cruise ship just entering the bay if anyone wants to check out the La Madera II and Playa Municipal webcams!

That's the MS The World. A floating condominium. It has about 250 residents and will be here throughout the night until late tomorrow afternoon.

Zihuatanejo Cruise Ship Arrivals

Also, what appeared to be a military helicopter landed a few minutes ago at what appeared to be somewhere close to the basketball court. I’ve seen that before from my vacation view on Madera, and I can never figure out where they are actually landing. It must be so disruptive to those nearby.

That's our new Gobernadora Evelyn Salgado Pineda arriving. The helicopters land at the Sector Naval behind the Mercado de Artesanía on Calle 5 de Mayo. We're quite used to it landing there, though sometimes it can kick up a lot of dust if they don't water down the landing area first.