{"id":10878,"date":"2012-01-19T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=10878"},"modified":"2012-01-19T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T09:00:32","slug":"river-cruising-time-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=10878","title":{"rendered":"River Cruising: Time Has Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s one of the New Year’s resolutions made in our house: By the end of 2012, we hope we will no longer be able to say we’ve never been on a river cruise.<\/p>\n

Clearly, river cruising is becoming a significant part of the “cruise community” and it’s time for us \u2014 so that we can properly serve you \u2014 to get on board, so to speak.<\/p>\n

Besides, there are more choices than ever.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On the Danube, Avalon River Cruises<\/a> has two new ships arriving in May, the Vista<\/a> and the Visionary,<\/a> and calling them the latest “Suite Ships.” Avalon will then have 18 ships in its fleet.<\/p>\n

On the Rhine, as well as the Danube, Viking<\/a> plans to have six new ships on the water before the end of 2012. They call them “the longships.” By then, there will be 31 Viking river cruisers.<\/p>\n

On the Mississippi, there are three river cruise companies and two new ships \u2014 one of them the Queen of the Mississippi<\/a> \u2014 mark the return of paddle wheelers to the river for the first time in two decades. The message is that cruising the Mississippi is making a comeback.<\/p>\n

Geographically, that would make the most sense for us. However, there is one caveat. It’s those tales of Mississippi gamblers…<\/p>\n

DAILY DEAL:<\/strong><\/span>
\nRoyal Caribbean Voyageur of the Seas<\/a>
\n7 nights
\nFebruary 11, 2012
\nNew Orleans<\/a> (return): Falmouth,<\/a> Grand Cayman,<\/a> Cozumel<\/a>
\nInside $469
\nwww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s one of the New Year’s resolutions made in our house: By the end of 2012, we hope we will no longer be able to say we’ve never been on a river cruise. Clearly, river cruising is becoming a significant part of the “cruise community” and it’s time for us \u2014 so that we can… Continue reading River Cruising: Time Has Come<\/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":[149,804,72,820,694,151,695,821,42,33,282,521],"class_list":["post-10878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-avalon-cruises","tag-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-danube-river","tag-mississippi-river","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-queen-of-the-mississippi","tag-rhine-river","tag-river-cruises","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-viking-river-cruises","tag-voyageur-of-the-seas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878","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=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}