{"id":11707,"date":"2012-03-30T01:39:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T08:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=11707"},"modified":"2012-03-30T01:39:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T08:39:03","slug":"cruise-concerts-how-much-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=11707","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Concerts: How Much Too Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Now that cruise passengers are comfortable with paying extra for upscale restaurants, are concerts next?<\/p>\n

For example, in Las Vegas<\/a>, to see Celine Dion in a "small venue," your ticket price starts at $117. Donny and Marie starts at $108. Elton John<\/a> is $115…Rod Stewart $89. You get the picture.<\/p>\n

Our last stadium concert event was country super star Tim McGraw<\/a>, near San Diego<\/a>. With tickets almost $100 each and a two-hour drive to get there, we figured the evening cost between $250 and $300 by the time you added over-priced food and over-priced gas. To make matters worse, we had to bob and weave to see the stage through the flailing arms of other concert-goers, and…don't get us started.<\/p>\n

On the way back, we decided we'd rather have paid $100 to see it (that would have been nice) on TV. Even better would have been to pay more to see the show in a small venue…like a cruise ship.<\/p>\n

Maybe the biggest stars are still out of reach for cruise lines, but maybe not. Sitting with 500 other customers to watch a name act at work would provide an intimacy you can only find in small-venue Vegas these days. For that kind of show, when you've paid over $100 to bob and weave and not see the show, does the price really matter?<\/p>\n

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\n\tCrown Princess<\/a>
\n\t12 nights
\n\tMay 24, 2012
\n\tVenice<\/a>, Dubrovnik<\/a>, Corfu, Olympia, Athens<\/a>, Mykonos<\/a>, Ephesus<\/a>, Santorini<\/a>, Naples<\/a>, Rome<\/a>
\n\tInside:  $999
\n\tCost per day: $83<\/span><\/strong>
\n\twww.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now that cruise passengers are comfortable with paying extra for upscale restaurants, are concerts next? For example, in Las Vegas, to see Celine Dion in a "small venue," your ticket price starts at $117. Donny and Marie starts at $108. Elton John is $115…Rod Stewart $89. You get the picture. Our last stadium concert event… Continue reading Cruise Concerts: How Much Too Much?<\/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":[804,872,873,648,72,204,86,35,874,875,64,470,532],"class_list":["post-11707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-bargains","tag-celine-dion","tag-concerts-on-ships","tag-crown-princess","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ship-entertainment","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-donny-and-marie","tag-elton-john","tag-princess-cruise","tag-rod-stewart","tag-tim-mcgraw","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707","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=11707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}