"Guests have booked earlier than we’ve ever seen before," said Holland America’s Senior Vice President of Revenue Management Beth Bodensteiner. "Ships are full throughout the summer at this point. And guests are booking into 2024."to cruise this year. That would surpass the nearly 30 million people who cruised in 2019, the last normal year before the pandemic. "This summer has been fantastic," Bodensteiner said. "I think better than we anticipated.
"We do see a lot of people coming to the Seattle or Vancouver home ports that are within the drive market and can avoid that high airfare that we’re seeing this summer," Bodensteiner said.