31.   An option is to obtain either a rental car or have private limo service from the airport and to the cruise ship.

32.   And cruise ships that normally call at the port must go elsewhere because the city is using their terminal on the Hudson River for emergency operations.

33.   And each cruise ship is equipped with several motorized inflatable boats that can deliver guests to docks and islands inaccessible to larger craft.

34.   And just in case you are recalling the final minutes of the Titanic, keep in mind the cruise ships of today have one of the best safety records.

35.   And mature travelers from the United States now pour in from some of the top cruise ships, and on the jets of a half-dozen major airlines.

36.   And increases in airplane travel reduced the number of cruise ships that slipped into this marvel of a port.

37.   And hundreds of thousands more who paused for a day while their cruise ships docked in port are targeted as potential longer-term visitors.

38.   And now that passenger liners are cruise ships, the classic seeing-off ceremony has become a pastiche of its former self.

39.   And soon, cruise ships may drop thousands of passengers onto Grand Turk, site of the capital but less developed than Provo.

40.   And some cruise ships have adapted architectural and philosophical elements in their spas as well.