Weymouth Bay in Dorset has turned into what amounts to a free boat park for some of the UK’s leading cruise lines during the Covid19 outbreak.
Ships in the bay today include, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, Queen Mary 2, Brittania, Carnival Valor, Marella Explorer, Marella Discovery and Marella Explorer 2.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) announced, in July ,that it was advising against cruise ship travel.

Its advice reads: “The Foreign & Commonwealth Office advises against cruise ship travel at this time. This is due to the ongoing pandemic and is based on medical advice from Public Health England.

The news has come as an extraordinary blow to the fraught industry, which has already had to deal with the closure of hundreds of ports and entire countries to cruise ship passengers, alongside an unenviable image problem, since the pandemic began.

Most cruise companies have postponed sailings until at least autumn as a consequence of the outbreak.