{"id":10387,"date":"2011-11-28T01:35:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T09:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=10387"},"modified":"2011-11-28T01:35:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T09:35:55","slug":"royal-rewards-if-cruise-sells-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=10387","title":{"rendered":"Royal Rewards…if Cruise Sells Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always nice to see a person’s faith rewarded. To see a calculated risk rewarded. To see somebody who believes so strongly in something that they benefit from their belief.<\/p>\n

So congratulations, Johnny Welsh, whoever you are.<\/p>\n

This week, Johnny is on a three-day cruise off Australia, aboard the Rhapsody of the Seas<\/a> with more than 2,000 of his newest and closest friends. It’s called The King Tribute Cruise, \"\"<\/a>featuring 14 Elvis acts (they’re called tributes, not impersonators), and Johnny mortgaged his house to book the entire ship, in the hope that he could entice enough passengers.<\/p>\n

We had to do the math.<\/p>\n

The ship holds 2,435 passengers. Cost of leasing the ship is $340,000 a day…at that point, it doesn’t matter if that’s American, Canadian, Australian, Hong Kong or Monopoly dollars).<\/p>\n

So Johnny was on the hook for $1.02 million. He had to sell every ticket at $419 each to break even. Let’s assume he charged $500 for a three-day cruise. At that rate, he’d have to sell 2,040 tickets to break even. At that rate, his profit would be $197,500…if he sold every ticket.<\/p>\n

And he did.<\/p>\n

DAILY DEAL:<\/span><\/strong>
\nCelebrity Century<\/a>
\n18 nights
\nJanuary 30, 2012
\nAuckland<\/a>, NZ to Perth<\/a>, Australia
\nInside $1,128
\nwww.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo credit: Paul Smith \/ Martin Fox<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s always nice to see a person’s faith rewarded. To see a calculated risk rewarded. To see somebody who believes so strongly in something that they benefit from their belief. So congratulations, Johnny Welsh, whoever you are. This week, Johnny is on a three-day cruise off Australia, aboard the Rhapsody of the Seas with more… Continue reading Royal Rewards…if Cruise Sells Out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[317,72,35,368,312,683,33,321],"class_list":["post-10387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-australia","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-elvis-presley","tag-finding-bargains","tag-rhapsody-of-the-seas","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-theme-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}