This tour is four nights long — Miami<\/a> to the Bahamas<\/a> and back — and Alabama<\/a> will play on two of the nights. They'll also have some of their favorite bands on the Pearl<\/a>, a dozen musical friends to participate in four nights of music at sea. including a beach party at Great Stirrup Cay<\/a>, Norwegian's private island.<\/p>\n Launched four years after Alabama retired, the Pearl carries 2,394 passengers.<\/p>\n In the group's heydey, there were four of them — lead singer Randy Owen, his cousin Teddy Gentry, their distant cousin Jeff Cook and drummer Mark Herndon. A bitter lawsuit filed by Herndon after their farewell tour made Alabama a threesome, one that pops up now and again at awards shows and events like the cruise, and sometimes even in a recording studio.<\/p>\n Alabama produced 41 or 42 or 43 singles that made it to No. 1, depending on your source, and one of the CDs in our collection is entitled: For The Record 41 Number One Hits<\/em>. Next fall marks the 40th anniversary of the day Alabama launched that career, in South Carolina, and they'll be celebrating it on a cruise ship…off the coast of Florida.<\/p>\n The cost of this vacation with Alabama starts around $1,000 (per person) for an inside stateroom, including taxes and gratuities. A balcony room goes for more than $1,500, and "tickets" go on sale March 20. By then you should know who their "friends" will be.<\/p>\n When you take two concerts and factor in the exclusivity angle, the price shouldn't come as a surprise..<\/p>\n Quickly now, who wants to vacation with Alabama. Not IN Alabama, but WITH…as in the country super group? Well, you can. Alabama hasn't toured for a decade but in October they're doing a mini-tour, of sorts, on the Norwegian Pearl, and can it be coincidence that they chose this ship because of Minnie Pearl, whose… Continue reading Pearl's Sweet Cruise Alabama<\/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":[1154,170,137,63,912,72,819,35,438,930,126,425,33,1010,321],"class_list":["post-15935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-alabama","tag-bahamas","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-country-music","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-great-stirrup-cay","tag-independence-of-the-seas","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-pearl","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-sixthman","tag-theme-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935","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=15935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alabama-e1358390210419.jpeg\" "\\"Alabama\\"")
<\/a>There will be plenty of time for photos and autographs and all of the trappings of having a private audience with celebrities. Because it's a cruise in which Norwegian is partnering with Sixthman<\/a>, which specializes in theme cruises, presumably everybody on the ship will have access to everything on the agenda.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
\n\tRoyal Caribbean Independence of the Seas<\/a>
\n\t8 nights
\n\tFebruary 10, 2013
\n\tFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): St. Maarten<\/a>, St. Kitts<\/a>, San Juan<\/a>, Labadee
\n\tInside: $429
\n\tCost per day: $61<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"