{"id":14233,"date":"2012-09-03T01:05:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T08:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=14233"},"modified":"2012-09-03T01:05:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T08:05:06","slug":"friday-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=14233","title":{"rendered":"Both New Princess Ships &#039;Royal&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is an era of all things Royal, going back to the marriage of William and Kate, followed by the the Queen&#39;s Diamond Jubilee&#8230;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/HMTheQueen\/HMTheQueen.aspx\">HRH&#39;s<\/a> appearance at the opening ceremonies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/\">Olympics<\/a>, from a helicopter yet&#8230;and Prince Harry&#39;s famous pool party&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>So if nothing else, it&#39;s fitting that another Princess &mdash; as in the cruise line &mdash; announces that the name of its second new ship not yet in the water will be Regal. The Regal Princess will arrive in 2014 and not surprisingly will look a lot like her sister, who will arrive next June and be christened as the&#8230;wait for it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/learn\/ships\/rp\/index.html\">Royal Princess<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That means they will be the largest, and obviously most modern, ships in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/index.html\">Princess<\/a> fleet of 18, Both will carry 3,600 passengers, or 520 more than four Grand Class ships that have a capacity of 3,080. They&#39;ll also have balconies on all outside staterooms, the largest top-deck pools of any Princess ships and &mdash; for thrill-seekers &mdash; a glass-bottomed walkway (above) on the top deck extending 28 feet out over the ocean. That&#39;s on the starboard side and is flanked on the port side by a bar that also hangs over the edge of the ships.<\/p>\n<p>With the possible exception to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/learn\/ships\/kp\/index.html\">Crown Princess,<\/a> these are the Princess ships with names best connected to royalty.<\/p>\n<p>These days, being Royal and Regal works&#8230;as long as Princess doesn&#39;t invite Harry to the pool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12028\" height=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" title=\"DailyDeal-2\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n\tRoyal Caribbean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ships\/class\/ship\/home.do;jsessionid=0000qNZMYvzM70BFt-cLBOv1KIR:12hbioan0?br=R&amp;shipClassCode=VY&amp;shipCode=NV\">Navigator of the Seas<\/a><br \/>\n\t7 nights<br \/>\n\tDecember 8, 2012<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neworleansonline.com\/\">New Orleans<\/a> (return): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islacozumel.com.mx\/\">Cozumel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caymanislands.ky\/\">Grand Cayman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.falmouthjamaica.org\/\">Falmouth<\/a><br \/>\n\tInside: $499<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><strong>Cost per day: $71<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/home.do\">www.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is an era of all things Royal, going back to the marriage of William and Kate, followed by the the Queen&#39;s Diamond Jubilee&#8230;and HRH&#39;s appearance at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, from a helicopter yet&#8230;and Prince Harry&#39;s famous pool party&#8230; Anyway, you get the idea. So if nothing else, it&#39;s fitting that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=14233\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Both New Princess Ships &#039;Royal&#039;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[137,648,912,72,86,35,395,151,357,1026,1027,64,978,33,543,540],"class_list":["post-14233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-crown-princess","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-navigator-of-the-seas","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-new-orleans","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-cruise","tag-queen-elizabeth-2","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-royal-princess","tag-royal-wedding","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233","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=14233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233\/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=14233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}