PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSHAlmost 30,000 cruise ship visitors will be pounding the pavement in Dunedin this week. The cruise season begins to "dampen down" after Friday, as there will be "an eight-day gap" before another "double day" of cruise ships on March 7 and again on March 11 and 12. Cruise ships Noordam (left) and Azamara Onward at Port Chalmers yesterday. Dunedin i-Site team leader Izumi Nakamura said over the next week Dunedin would welcome just under 20,000 cruise ship passengers and 8000 crew members. "If they drop the cruise ship passengers off closer to us in town, then we usually benefit from that.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 23, 2026 16:02 UTC