{"id":14335,"date":"2012-09-10T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=14335"},"modified":"2012-09-10T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T08:00:32","slug":"monday-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=14335","title":{"rendered":"Crunching Solo Cabin Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Norwegian's Pride of America<\/a> goes in for refurbishing that will interrupt its cruising around the Hawaiian Islands<\/a> next spring, four new inside staterooms will be designed for single travelers.<\/p>\n

Is this a glass half-empty or a glass half-full?<\/p>\n

Our esteemed colleague, Phil Reimer of Ports and Bows<\/a>, is a big fan of solo cabins — or the \"\"<\/a>need for solo cabins. Therefore, he was disappointed that only four were included in the Pride of America's furbishing.<\/p>\n

If this was a response to customer demand, it was a token response.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the first of two new Norwegian<\/a> ships, the Breakaway<\/a>, arrives next year. It will be the line's first new ship since the Epic<\/a> in 2010, and it was the Epic that broke the cruise industry mold by including 128 solo cabins in its design. On the Breakaway (and presumably the Getaway<\/a>), there will be 59 solo cabins.<\/p>\n

If the Epic was indeed testing the market, the number of passengers on the ship who sailed solo (in what Norwegian calls "studio" cabins) was just over three per cent. If the same percentage was applied to the Breakaway, there would be 125 solo cabins, not 59. Apply the Epic percentage to the refurbished Pride of America and there would be 67, not four (admittedly there are physical limitations for an existing ship that's being refurbished).<\/p>\n

Given that cruise lines are forever responding to the trends of passengers, the Norwegian strategy indicates there is a limited demand.<\/p>\n

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\n\tNorwegian Epic<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tMarch 9, 2013
\n\tMiami<\/a> (return): St. Maarten<\/a>, St. Thomas<\/a>, Nassau<\/a>
\n\tInside: $649
\n\tCost per day: $81<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Norwegian's Pride of America goes in for refurbishing that will interrupt its cruising around the Hawaiian Islands next spring, four new inside staterooms will be designed for single travelers. Is this a glass half-empty or a glass half-full? Our esteemed colleague, Phil Reimer of Ports and Bows, is a big fan of solo cabins… Continue reading Crunching Solo Cabin Numbers<\/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":[15],"tags":[137,912,72,86,35,1038,29,528,151,126,721,26,27,420,520,1039],"class_list":["post-14335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-cruising-for-singles","tag-epic","tag-hawaii","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-breakaway","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-pride-of-america","tag-ship-refurbishing","tag-solo-cabins","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335","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=14335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}