{"id":10790,"date":"2012-01-10T01:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T09:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=10790"},"modified":"2012-01-10T01:22:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T09:22:53","slug":"new-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=10790","title":{"rendered":"&#039;New&#039; Ships: MV Voyager, neoRomantica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be eight new cruise ships launched this year, and the two here are on the list, even though they have been around under &#8220;assumed&#8221; (old) names. This is the final installment of the new ships of 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10800\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2012\/01\/new-ships\/mv-voyager-600-cr\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10800\" title=\"MV Voyager-600-cr\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MV-Voyager-600-cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/strong><em>Photo by <\/em><em>Kim Hansen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ship:<\/strong> MV Voyager<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Launch date:<\/strong> November 17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Capacity:<\/strong> 556<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sister ships:<\/strong> None<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong>Maiden Voyage:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/istanbulturkey.ca\/\">Istanbul<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Ports:<\/strong> Portsmouth, then Caribbean<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong>Ships now in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voyagesofdiscovery.co.uk\/\">Voyages of Discovery<\/a> fleet:<\/strong> 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interesting:<\/strong> Its old name is the Alexander von Humboldt and the new version will have 86 per cent of the rooms with ocean views.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10795\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2012\/01\/new-ships\/romantica-650\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10795\" title=\"Romantica-650\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Romantica-650.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a>Ship:<\/strong> Costa neoRomantica<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Launch date:<\/strong> February 20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Capacity:<\/strong> 1,800<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sister ships:<\/strong> Costa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costacruise.com\/usa\/costa_classica.html\">Classica<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong>Maiden Voyage:<\/strong> Savona<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Ports:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barcelona.com\/\">Barcelona<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong>Ships now in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costacruise.com\/\">Costa<\/a> fleet:<\/strong> 16<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interesting:<\/strong> Almost two years ago, an engine room fire on the Romantica (above) left her stalled for a day, with clogged toilets, no running water and no electricity. The 18-year-old ship was last refurbished in 2003 and in this refurbishment, two half decks will be added. But the name&#8230;really? Wouldn&#8217;t Costa have been best to leave it just as Romantica?<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DAILY DEAL:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Costa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costacruise.com\/usa\/costa_pacifica.html\">Pacifica<\/a><br \/>\n18 nights<br \/>\nMarch 10, 2012<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geographia.com\/brazil\/saopaulo\/index.htm\">Sao Paulo,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riodejaneiro.com\/\">Rio de Janeiro,<\/a> Ilheus, Salvador, Maceio, Recife, Santa Cruz (Canary Islands), Funchal, Casablanca (Morocco), Savona (Italy)<br \/>\nInside $1,199<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.costacruise.com\/\">www.costacruise.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be eight new cruise ships launched this year, and the two here are on the list, even though they have been around under &#8220;assumed&#8221; (old) names. This is the final installment of the new ships of 2012. Photo by Kim Hansen Ship: MV Voyager Launch date: November 17 Capacity: 556 Sister ships: None&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=10790\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#039;New&#039; Ships: MV Voyager, neoRomantica<\/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":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[57,812,72,86,312,813,151,814],"class_list":["post-10790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-costa-cruise","tag-costa-neoromantica","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-finding-bargains","tag-mv-voyager","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-voyages-of-discovery","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790","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=10790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}