On Sunday, it's the inaugural cruise. The first time the general public has a chance to sail on the ship. The breaking of the Breakaway's maiden, as it were. An opportunity to say you were on the first cruise out of New York<\/a>, its permanent home.<\/span><\/p>\n Sold out, right?<\/span><\/p>\n Wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n At the end of the business day yesterday in New York, you could still buy a place on Sunday's inaugural 7-day cruise to Bermuda<\/a> and back, for $999. Or you can stay in an ocean-view room for $1,029…or a balcony stateroom for $1,449. In fact, there seems to be no shortage of opportunities to book passage on a cruise that leaves in three days. Only suites are sold out.<\/span><\/p>\n All of this comes from Norwegian's website<\/a>, so it raises a few questions.<\/span><\/p>\n Did Norwegian price its inaugural sailing on the Breakaway too high? <\/span><\/p>\n A 7-night Bermuda cruise on the Celebrity Summit<\/a> from Cape Liberty<\/a>, also on Sunday, starts at $549 and for $999 (the starting price on Breakaway) you can book a Concierge Class<\/em> balcony with a handful of extras.<\/span><\/p>\n Is there less of a buzz about the new ship than anticipated?<\/span><\/p>\n The Breakaway christening ceremony was in New York yesterday morning. CruiseCritic<\/a> was there, USA Today<\/a> was there, Associated Press was there…not to mention The Rockettes<\/a>, Geoffrey Zakarian, Mayor Bloomberg and even Cardinal Timothy Dolan, to bless the ship.<\/span><\/p>\n But in New York?<\/span><\/p>\n The only story on the Times' website<\/a> about the Breakaway is more than three months old. A search of the New York Post<\/a> website for "Norwegian Breakaway" returned 0 results. At the Daily News<\/a>…a Breakaway announcement from 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n Today's papers\/newspaper websites may have mentions of yesterday's christening ceremony. None of that, however, is likely to put heads in beds by Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n Tomorrow, the Norwegian Breakaway embarks on a pre-inaugural cruise. That's a cruise for travel agents and media, to give them a change to preview the new ship. On Sunday, it's the inaugural cruise. The first time the general public has a chance to sail on the ship. The breaking of the Breakaway's maiden, as… Continue reading Breakaway's Inaugural Not SRO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,31,19,15],"tags":[917,912,72,86,35,23,862,151,126,721,1242,148],"class_list":["post-17424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-christening","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-holland-america","tag-holland-america-ryndam","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-breakaway","tag-ship-christening-ceremonies","tag-transatlantic-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17424","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=17424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17424\/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=17424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17424"}],"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\tHolland America Ryndam<\/a>
\n\t15 nights
\n\tNovember 2, 2013
\n\tBarcelona<\/a>, Malaga<\/a>, Cadiz, Lisbon<\/a>, Half Moon Cay<\/a>, Tampa<\/a>
\n\tInside: $899
\n\tCost per day: $59<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.hollandamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"