{"id":1734,"date":"2010-06-14T01:16:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T08:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2010-06-14T01:16:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T08:16:44","slug":"south-america-grand-cruise-holland-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Around America in Two Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You could call this one an all-American trip on a ship. You get on board in America and, after more than two months on board, you get off in America. The ship belongs to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\">Holland America<\/a>. Its purpose on this two-month voyage is to circumnavigate <a href=\"http:\/\/gosouthamerica.about.com\/\">South America<\/a>. You can probably get to the embarkation\/debarkation city on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aa.com\/homePage.do\">American Airlines<\/a>, and you can be certain most of the passengers will be American&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1777\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/06\/south-america-grand-cruise-holland-america\/prinsendam-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1777\" title=\"Prinsendam-1\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Prinsendam-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a>Stop!<\/p>\n<p>On the fifth day of 2011, the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/cruise-vacation-onboard\/Prinsendam\">ms Prinsendam<\/a> sails from <a href=\"http:\/\/ci.ftlaud.fl.us\/\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After two equator crossings, 13 countries, 29 ports and 66 days later, the ship returns to the same Florida port. You want to know the countries and ports&#8230;and the price&#8230;check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the time it&#8217;s all over, you&#8217;ll have been to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antarctica.com\/\">Antarctica<\/a>, explored the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/what\/wherewework\/amazon\/index.html\">Amazon River<\/a> and made 792 new friends who will have been your roommates for two months (assuming that the cruise sells out).<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve titled this trip &#8220;Grand South America.&#8221; There&#8217;s that word again.<br \/>\nFour days into 2012, Holland America has just announced one of their ships (probably the Prinsendam) will do it all again, also from\/to Fort Lauderdale. This trip takes 68 days. It&#8217;s for people who think the 2011 voyage is too short.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, we&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could call this one an all-American trip on a ship. You get on board in America and, after more than two months on board, you get off in America. The ship belongs to Holland America. Its purpose on this two-month voyage is to circumnavigate South America. You can probably get to the embarkation\/debarkation city&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=1734\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Around America in Two Months<\/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":[16,31,19,15],"tags":[218,35,23,56,219],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-around-the-world-cruise","tag-cruises","tag-holland-america","tag-prinsendam","tag-south-america","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}