{"id":10677,"date":"2011-12-28T01:34:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T09:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=10677"},"modified":"2011-12-28T01:34:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T09:34:57","slug":"cruise-critic-reflecting-on-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=10677","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Critic: Reflecting on &#039;11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a history that goes back almost 17 years, and a mushrooming staff of reporters and editors, it kind of goes without saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruisecritic.com\">Cruise Critic<\/a> provides the most detailed, up-to-date information for you (and us), the people who love to cruise.<\/p>\n<p>What is not generally known about Cruise Critic is that it does not sell or promote cruises&#8230;it just provides what it claims to be objective information and reviews.<\/p>\n<p>But we digress.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for bringing up Cruise Critic today is that on its website yesterday was a year-ender identifying the &#8220;11 Biggest Cruise Stories of 2011&#8221; that, if nothing else, make for interesting reading.<\/p>\n<p>Readers who regularly follow cruise news will have heard about most of these stories, but there&#8217;s a few surprises, and it&#8217;s always fun to look back at the year coming to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruisecritic.com\/news\/news.cfm?ID=4692\">here to read them<\/a>&#8230;and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>DAILY DEAL:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nNorwegian <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/ship\/gem\/overview\">Gem<\/a><br \/>\n7 nights<br \/>\nFebruary 26<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/portal\/site\/nycgov\/?front_door=true\">New York<\/a> (return): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portcanaveral.com\/cruising\/cruising.php\">Port Canaveral,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruisecheap.com\/norwegian_cruise_line.asp?pageID=129\">Great Stirrup Cay,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nassauparadiseisland.com\/\">Nassau<\/a><br \/>\nInside $349<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/\">www.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a history that goes back almost 17 years, and a mushrooming staff of reporters and editors, it kind of goes without saying that Cruise Critic provides the most detailed, up-to-date information for you (and us), the people who love to cruise. What is not generally known about Cruise Critic is that it does not&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=10677\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cruise Critic: Reflecting on &#039;11<\/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":[16,32,329,25,31,36,19,15],"tags":[427,72,86,35,312,126,424],"class_list":["post-10677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-hotels","category-people","category-ports","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-critic","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-finding-bargains","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-gem","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677","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=10677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}