The new structure is called the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal<\/a>, and the ships will be Mariner of the Seas<\/a> (June 12) and Voyager of the Seas (October 15). One hour after the Voyager<\/a> leaves, the Diamond Princess<\/a> will arrive and by the end of the year Celebrity's Millennium<\/a> will also have visited Kai Tak.<\/span><\/p>\n But here's what is most interesting about the state-of-the-art terminal:<\/span><\/p>\n It can process 3,000 passengers an hour!<\/span><\/p>\n That means every passenger could leave most of today's cruise ships an hour after the gangplank goes down. Having recently move 25 feet in 60 minutes at the terminal in Galveston<\/a> after leaving the Crown Princess<\/a>, we think this is exciting news that hopefully will spread throughout the cruise terminal world.<\/span><\/p>\n There is one problem.<\/span><\/p>\n How many people an hour will be processed at customs?<\/span><\/p>\n In June, two Royal Caribbean ships will be the first to dock at a $1 billion terminal (that's right, one BILLION) in Hong Kong. The new structure is called the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, and the ships will be Mariner of the Seas (June 12) and Voyager of the Seas (October 15). One hour… Continue reading Quick disembarkation billion-dollar answer?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,31,19,15],"tags":[648,912,72,51,35,842,385,528,1197,1198,649,59,126,420,33,1199],"class_list":["post-16740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-crown-princess","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruises","tag-diamond-princess","tag-galveston","tag-hawaii","tag-hong-kong","tag-kai-tak-cruise-terminal","tag-mariner-of-the-seas","tag-new-cruise-terminal","tag-norwegian","tag-pride-of-america","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-voyager-of-the-seas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16740","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=16740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16740\/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=16740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
\n\tNorwegian Pride of America<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tMay 18, 2013
\n\tHonolulu<\/a> (return): Kahului, Hilo<\/a>, Kona<\/a>, Nawilili
\n\tInside: $1,549
\n\tCost per day: $221<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"