{"id":17331,"date":"2013-05-03T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=17331"},"modified":"2013-05-03T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T08:00:32","slug":"friday-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=17331","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Victim a Hurricane Victim?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you're smarter than we are, and bajillions of people are, you might be able to figure out what we're about to tell you. But we can't.<\/span><\/p>\n

It comes from WABC-TV<\/a> in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

A woman named Joanne Keating was a victim of Hurricane Sandy, which eliminated her home less than a week before she was to take her grandsons and her mother on a <\/span>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Norwegian Jewel<\/a> cruise to the Caribbean. Having lost virtually everything, she appealed to the cruise line — and its CEO, Kevin Sheehan — for either a refund or a re-scheduling. She was turned down.<\/span><\/p>\n

"How can you go on a vacation when you lost every single thing you own?" she rhetorically asked WABC.<\/span><\/p>\n

That was last November.<\/span><\/p>\n

About six weeks later, TV star Katie Couric<\/a> surprised 150 women who were Hurricane Sandy victims by announcing on her show (Katie<\/em>) that they were all going — with their families — on a three-day cruise to Bermuda, free of charge. It wasn't spelled out whether the benefactor was Katie<\/em> or the cruise line, or both, but it was a magnanimous gesture for people who had been victimized by the hurricane.<\/span><\/p>\n

Guess which cruise line?<\/span><\/p>\n

Norwegian<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The TV station's calls to the cruise line were unanswered. Eventually, probably to find out what a competing cruise line would have done, WABC called Royal Caribbean<\/a>. Ironically, the PR person who took the call was not only sympathetic but was from the New York area devastated by the storm.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now, the woman who lost her home is taking the grandsons and her mother on a similar cruise, courtesy of Royal Caribbean, on Explorer of the Seas<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So why would Norwegian make a big deal of Katie's Sandy story and turn its back on another Sandy victim?<\/span><\/p>\n

You tell us.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tRoyal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tJuly 14, 2013
\n\tRome<\/a> (return): Messina<\/a>, Athens<\/a>, Ephesus<\/a>, Crete<\/a>
\n\tInside: $669
\n\tCost per day: $95<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you're smarter than we are, and bajillions of people are, you might be able to figure out what we're about to tell you. But we can't. It comes from WABC-TV in New York. A woman named Joanne Keating was a victim of Hurricane Sandy, which eliminated her home less than a week before she… Continue reading Hurricane Victim a Hurricane Victim?<\/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":[32,25,36,19,15],"tags":[912,72,35,856,1089,1134,1135,30,395,126,307,33],"class_list":["post-17331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-explorer-of-the-seas","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-katie","tag-katie-couric","tag-mediterranean-cruise","tag-navigator-of-the-seas","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-jewel","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17331","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=17331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}