The fine folks at Reception gave me the nationality breakdown of the passengers:
- Australia – 20
- Austria – 6
- Belgium – 8
- Botswana – 2
- Brazil – 2
- Canada – 25
- Denmark – 1
- Ecuador – 1
- Finland – 8
- France – 3
- Germany – 20
- Ireland – 3
- Israel – 2
- Netherlands – 4
- New Zealand – 2
- Norway – 4
- Poland – 2
- South Africa – 2
- Spain – 2
- Sweden – 8
- Switzerland – 14
- United Kingdom – 163
- United States – 236
Total: 538, with 280 female, 258 male. Of these, about 140 are staying for the full two+ month South America Grand Voyage. Therefore, the breakdown is going to change with each segment.
Technical Sidenote
The internet on board has been passible: 2 Mbps down and 400 Kbps up. I started by only uploading 200 Kb images but have now moved to 400 Kb. I’ll try walking it up to 600 in the future and stay there, unless you guys tell me you are having issues seeing anything.