You have to give Royal Caribbean<\/a> high marks for its Off Olympics<\/em> campaign.<\/p>\n Number one, it's going to be humorous. Number two, it has name value. Number three, it's clever.<\/p>\n The ads will start running tomorrow…coincidentally, the day of the Opening Ceremonies in London<\/a>. They'll be on stations owned and\/or operated by NBC<\/a>, the official Olympic broadcaster, so maybe Royal Caribbean has to loosen a few purse strings for this campaign. Two former Olympians are involved, ex-figure skater Michelle Kwan and ex-diver Greg Louganis. In the campaign, they will be competing on the Oasis of the Seas<\/a>. Their event?<\/p>\n The deck-athlon.<\/p>\n While neither has been a decathlete, they will face off in 10 events ranging from wall climbing to decorating cupcakes. Two of the events are the ones that made them famous — figure skating and diving. Presumably one of them will win a Royal deck-athlon medal. The other six events are the flow rider, mini golf, zip line, table tennis, basketball and…wait for it…casino.<\/p>\n How the Olympics have changed!<\/p>\n When the Olympic Games open tomorrow, there will be advertising connected to the Games — advertisers pay big bucks for that — and there will be what could be called "Off Olympics" advertising. These are advertisers who are linked by association, and benefit accordingly. The linkage is informal and unofficial — that usually means… Continue reading Olympics of the Sea on Oasis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[137,912,72,35,985,956,986,53,901,33],"class_list":["post-13868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-greg-louganis","tag-london-olympics","tag-michelle-kwan","tag-oasis-of-the-seas","tag-olympic-games","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13868","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=13868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/flow-riders.jpg\" "\\"Greg")
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\n\tRoyal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tNovember 10, 2012
\n\tFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): Labadee, Falmouth<\/a>, Cozumel<\/a>
\n\tInside: $799
\n\tCost per day: $114<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"