{"id":10938,"date":"2012-01-26T01:36:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T09:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2012-01-26T01:36:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T09:36:56","slug":"three-cruise-ports-celebrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=10938","title":{"rendered":"Three Cruise Ports Celebrating"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today, it’s time to make three port stops, all of which are enjoying their changing associations with cruise ships…<\/p>\n

New Orleans:<\/strong> It’s almost like people who cruise just re-discovered what a great place New Orleans<\/a> is to visit. In 2011, the port showed an increase of 39 per cent to 738,908, the most cruise passengers New Orleans has ever had. Four ships (two Carnival,<\/a> one Norwegian,<\/a> one Royal Caribbean<\/a>) home-port in NoLa and this week two more ships stopped for a visit \u2014 Fred.Olsen’s<\/a> Balmoral<\/a> and P&O’s<\/a> Oceana,<\/a> bringing in another 4,000 visitors.<\/p>\n

Vancouver:<\/strong> Disney<\/a> made news this week by announcing it will return the Wonder to its previous home, Vancouver,<\/a> in 2013, following a one-year diversion to Seattle as the shared embarkation point for its Alaska cruises (this year’s cruises are Seattle<\/a> to Vancouver via Alaska,<\/a> and vice-versa). Apparently, Disney cruisers expressed a preference for Canada’s Olympic city for its on-shore experience. Hmm, maybe cruise lines really do listen to customers.<\/p>\n

Miami:<\/strong> The Disney Wonder<\/a> is this week’s newsmaker among cruise ships, because when it’s not in Vancouver it will be in Miami,<\/a> the line’s first ship to be based in what is being called PortMiami with the arrivals of “home” ships from MSC,<\/a> Costa<\/a> and Regent Seven Seas.<\/a> Until this, Disney ships in Florida were all based in Port Canaveral,<\/a> just east of Orlando. Ironically, on the Disney website the Wonder’s repositioning cruise through the Panama Canal<\/a> (above) only goes as far as Los Angeles,<\/a> its present home.<\/p>\n

Conventional wisdom is that a cruise ship in a port means $1 million a day for the local economy.<\/p>\n

These are three winners of the cruise lottery.<\/p>\n

DAILY DEAL:<\/strong><\/span>
\nHolland America Rotterdam VI<\/a>
\n15 nights
\nApril 17, 2012
\nFort Lauderdale,<\/a> Funchal and Lisbon<\/a> (Portugal), Brest and Cherbourg<\/a> (France), Rotterdam<\/a>
\nInside $799
\nwww.hollandamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, it’s time to make three port stops, all of which are enjoying their changing associations with cruise ships… New Orleans: It’s almost like people who cruise just re-discovered what a great place New Orleans is to visit. In 2011, the port showed an increase of 39 per cent to 738,908, the most cruise passengers… Continue reading Three Cruise Ports Celebrating<\/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":[16,32,31,19,15],"tags":[45,154,57,72,51,86,28,312,120,23,394,144,357,126,305,79,306,33,765],"class_list":["post-10938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-alaska","tag-carnival","tag-costa-cruise","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruise-ships","tag-disney","tag-finding-bargains","tag-fred-olsen","tag-holland-america","tag-miami","tag-msc-cruises","tag-new-orleans","tag-norwegian","tag-po","tag-panama-canal","tag-regent","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-vancouver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938","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=10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}