{"id":17662,"date":"2013-05-28T01:11:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T08:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=17662"},"modified":"2013-05-28T01:11:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T08:11:45","slug":"tuesday-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=17662","title":{"rendered":"New Caribbean Port Coming in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time we cruised to "Honduras" was about three years ago and the opportunity to do so was intriguing, since it was a country we had never visited…and it's always interesting to go somewhere new.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then we looked at a map.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ship — Norwegian's Epic<\/a> — was visiting Roatan. Now technically, Roatan<\/a> is part of Honduras. It's an island that sits in the Gulf of Honduras, the largest of three islands that <\/span>\"\"<\/a>make up one "department" or province of the 18 in this Central American country. Put it another way: the population of Honduras is about 8,000,000…the population of Roatan is just over 70,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roatan has beaches and scuba diving and a tourist economy fueled by cruise ships. It is a long way from the country's capital, Tegucigalpa, ands not just geographically. The mainland has never really been a magnet for travelers, many of whom think it should stay that way. Honduras has been more of a hotspot for terrorism than tourism, with 300 wars or rebellions in its 200 years of independence. In a way, seeing Roatan as representative of its country is not unlike seeing Hawaii as representative of its country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, things are changing.<\/span><\/p>\n

There's a new cruise port on the Honduran mainland. It's called Banana Coast<\/a>, it cost $30 million and it will be open for business next year. Holland America<\/a> has committed to 11 port calls over the next two years, and Silversea's<\/a> Silver Cloud will stop by in December 2014. And the pier is large enough to accommodate two "Oasis size" ships.<\/span><\/p>\n

The port is called Trujillo<\/a>, a Colonial city which once had Christopher Columbus as a visitor and which is, as the crow flies, is less than 50 miles across the Caribbean Sea from Roatan.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it's still a long way from Tegucigalpa…and the "real" Honduras.<\/span><\/p>\n

It's also a start.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tHolland America Noordam<\/a>
\n\t11 nights
\n\tAugust 15, 2013
\n\tAthens<\/a>, Crete<\/a>, Cairo<\/a>, Rhodes<\/a>, Ephesus<\/a>, Mykonos<\/a>, Istanbul<\/a>
\n\tInside: $999
\n\tCost per day: $90<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.hollandamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first time we cruised to "Honduras" was about three years ago and the opportunity to do so was intriguing, since it was a country we had never visited…and it's always interesting to go somewhere new. Then we looked at a map. The ship — Norwegian's Epic — was visiting Roatan. Now technically, Roatan is… Continue reading New Caribbean Port Coming in 2014<\/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":[16,32,31,15],"tags":[1256,912,72,51,35,29,23,163,862,824,30,999,126,1257,1258],"class_list":["post-17662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-stories","tag-banana-coast","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruises","tag-epic","tag-holland-america","tag-holland-america-noordam","tag-holland-america-ryndam","tag-honduras","tag-mediterranean-cruise","tag-new-cruise-ports","tag-norwegian","tag-tegucigalpa","tag-trujillo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17662","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=17662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}