{"id":14337,"date":"2012-09-11T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=14337"},"modified":"2012-09-11T01:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T08:00:06","slug":"tuesday-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=14337","title":{"rendered":"Royal Caribbean Cruising for&#8230;Barbie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s a lot of grandparents out there &mdash; like us &mdash; quietly hoping their granddaughters don&#39;t get wind of what&#39;s happening at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\">Royal Caribbean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a word, Barbie.<\/p>\n<p>We have two granddaughters who are nine and eight so, yes, they know all about Barbie. <a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2012\/09\/tuesday-10\/barbie\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14371\" height=\"379\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Barbie.jpg\" title=\"Barbie\" width=\"238\" \/><\/a>Is there a granddaughter anywhere who doesn&#39;t? Yes, there is. Our 10-month-old granddaughter, but only because her cousins haven&#39;t made the introduction yet.<\/p>\n<p>What Royal Caribbean&#39;s up to is this: a Barbie Cruise. And just to make sure you don&#39;t miss it, this isn&#39;t just one <em>Barbie Dream Cruise<\/em>. It&#39;s a whole family of them. In perpetuity. Like forever, or as forever as anything gets in the cruise business.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly, how do you say no?<\/p>\n<p>The first time you get to experience Barbie on the ocean is January, on select Royal Caribbean ships. By March, she&#39;ll be on the whole fleet. That&#39;s 22 ships&#8230;and 22 <em>Barbie Movie Nights<\/em>, <em>Barbie Story Times<\/em>, <em>Barbie<\/em> movies on stateroom TVs and assorted other Barbie-themed activities.<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s even a contest running (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbiecruisevacation.com\">www.barbiecruisevacation.com<\/a>) in which Barbie lovers &mdash; aged 3 to 15 &mdash; can enter to win a seven-night <em>Barbie Cruise Vacation<\/em>, with weekly chances to go Barbie shopping at Walmart with $50 in hand.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s for little kids who just can&#39;t get enough Barbie.<\/p>\n<p>Our granddaughters will be all over this one.<\/p>\n<p>If somebody tells them.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#39;t you just see Grandpa, playing Barbie?<\/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\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ships\/class\/ship\/home.do;jsessionid=0000qNZMYvzM70BFt-cLBOv1KIR:12hbioan0?br=R&amp;shipClassCode=VY&amp;shipCode=EX\">Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas<\/a><br \/>\n\t7 nights<br \/>\n\tOctober 21, 2012<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiseliberty.com\/\">Bayonne<\/a> (return): King&#39;s Wharf, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bermuda.com\/\">Bermuda<\/a><br \/>\n\tInside: $599<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><strong>Cost per day: $85<\/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; There&#39;s a lot of grandparents out there &mdash; like us &mdash; quietly hoping their granddaughters don&#39;t get wind of what&#39;s happening at Royal Caribbean. In a word, Barbie. We have two granddaughters who are nine and eight so, yes, they know all about Barbie. Is there a granddaughter anywhere who doesn&#39;t? Yes, there is.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=14337\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Royal Caribbean Cruising for&#8230;Barbie?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1040,1041,267,912,937,72,35,856,124,938,33],"class_list":["post-14337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-barbie","tag-barbie-dream-cruise","tag-bermuda","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-contest","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-explorer-of-the-seas","tag-kids","tag-kids-on-ships","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337","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=14337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337\/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=14337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}