— from Washington State Ferries —
On Tuesday, April 24 at 7 a.m. we opened up the summer vehicle reservations on our Port Townsend/Coupeville, Anacortes/San Juan Islands and Anacortes/Sidney, BC routes.
Just in the last few weeks there’s been significant growth in the number of visitors to our reservations page and to the number of reservations made, over previous years. In the first three hours (7-10 a.m.) more than 21,100 reservations were made compared to 12,800 in 2017 and 10,900 in 2016. In the first hour, over 5,000 people signed on to make a reservation.
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We are happy to see so much interest and excitement for the summer season, and will continue to make improvements to our website to accommodate the high volume of visitors.
Don’t forget. If you did not get your preferred sailing date or time, log on two weeks or two days before your sailing date for second and third tier reservation openings.
I looked last week and all three big holiday weekends are sold out for first phase reservations.
Can’t get much sadder….
We are beyond carrying capacity for more tourists, there is no affordable places or necessary quantity of housing for the local working population, and no one is addressing it.
WSF has no plans to add a boat to help this summer traffic problem which could make things nightmarish for locals.
Sad, the coming of summer ferry season:
depressing. The ferry dance is sometimes overwhelming.
Perhaps we can use some of the Lodging Tax funds to buy another ferry?