Not so fast.<\/span><\/p>\n Celebrity's Solstice<\/a> will become the biggest ship to visit the Canadian port in 2014…after it undergoes what is being called "minor surgery" to its mast. The options were to skip Vancouver and sail just from Seattle<\/a> to Alaska<\/a>, as the Solstice is this year, or to ruin one good mast by running into the bridge deck.<\/span><\/p>\n By next summer, the mast will be hinged.<\/span><\/p>\n According to Celebrity's<\/a> Ross Nacht, the Solstice will be "the premier ship to call in Vancouver" and he's right. Next to Oasis of the Seas<\/a> and Allure of the Seas<\/a>, Royal Caribbean's<\/a> industry giants, the Solstice Class<\/em> ranks with the best ships anywhere, if not in size then in class.<\/span><\/p>\n Who could imagine that one of them — the flagship nonetheless — would need to be modified because, as one Vancouver newspaper puts it, "Vancouver is so irresistible that a massive cruise ship plans to go under the knife for a chance to spend a little time" there?<\/span><\/p>\n When a cruise ship visits Vancouver, the jewel that sits between ocean and mountains in British Columbia, it must sail under the Lions Gate Bridge and into Burrard Inlet. No ship has ever been too big to fit under the Lions Gate… Not so fast. Celebrity's Solstice will become the biggest ship to visit… Continue reading Solstice Surgery To Make It All Better<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,31,19,15],"tags":[157,138,77,37,912,72,35,22,980,765],"class_list":["post-17508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-alaska-cruises","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-infinity","tag-celebrity-solstice","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-european-cruises","tag-solstice-class-ships","tag-vancouver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508","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=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/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=17508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17508"}],"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\tCelebrity Infinity<\/a>
\n\t11 nights
\n\tJune 3, 2013
\n\tLondon<\/a> (return): Paris<\/a>, St. Peter Port, Cork<\/a>, Waterford<\/a>, Dublin<\/a>, Liverpool<\/a>, Glasgow
\n\tInside: $1,049
\n\tCost per day: $107<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"