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You're a big-spending, high-wheeling tourist on a cruise ship, ready to part with loads of money in Wellington.
But you step off the boat to a bleak industrial site at Aotea Quay, full of logs and shipping containers and well away from the city's centre.
It's a situation that Wellington Mayor Mark Blumksy doesn't like.
"It's very sad we disembark people down there. It's the middle of containers, it's one of the worst places. But we have to tie up where it's safe to tie up."
This financial year, Wellington will be visited 20 times by 11 cruise liners. About half of the ships will dock at Aotea Quay; the rest at Queens Wharf, near the heart of the shopping district. In the past, cruise ships have docked at the Overseas Passenger Terminal.
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