{"id":17971,"date":"2013-06-27T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=17971"},"modified":"2013-06-27T01:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T08:00:49","slug":"thursday-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=17971","title":{"rendered":"Long Cruise&#8230;Short List of Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Not long ago we read about a passenger who went on a &quot;Love Boat&quot; cruise..to 18 countries&#8230;on a ship that carries just 710 passengers&#8230;for 87 days. This was on a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocruises.com\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">P&amp;O<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"> ship, the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocruises.com\/Cruise-Ships\/Adonia\/Ship-Overview\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Adonia<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">, and it prompted us to see what the ship is currently offering in the<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">way of a cruise where so few people are together for so long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The best (?) one we found is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enjoyengland.com\/destinations\/find\/south-east\/hampshire\/southampton.aspx\">Southampton<\/a> to Southampton.&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">In between are 48 ports in 26 countries and almost four months on the ship.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Still with 710 passengers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2013\/06\/thursday-48\/adonia-crtrondheim-havn-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18018\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Adonia-CRTrondheim-Havn-copy.jpg\" title=\"P&amp;O's Adonia\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>This is P&amp;O&#39;s <i>Asian Grand Adventure<\/i> and if &quot;Grand&quot; to you means visiting places called Ceuta (that&#39;s in Spain), Aqaba (Jordan), Yangon (Burma) and Nha Trang (Vietnam)&#8230;well, you&#39;re both more erudite and wealthier than we are. For sure, this would be &quot;an experience&quot; and the price for this one starts at $10,229 pounds. Or $15,669.48. Per person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now if that sounds like a lot of money, break it down to a per diem. How does $139.91 per-person, per-day sound?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That&#39;s hardly outrageous when you think about going from England to Japan and back. Even three and a half months on a ship is okay. It&#39;s just the 710-passenger thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By the time you get back to Southampton, you&#39;d be like family&#8230;and who wants a family that big?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Okay&#8230;the Adonia leaves January 7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12028\" height=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" title=\"DailyDeal-2\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cms\/fun\/ships\/carnival_fascination\/default.aspx?shipCode=FS\" style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\">Carnival Fascination<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">5 nights<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">August 24, 2013<\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitjacksonville.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Jacksonville<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;(return):&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribbeanportreviews.com\/HalfMoonCay.htm\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Half&nbsp; Moon Cay<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nassauparadiseisland.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Nassau<br \/>\n\t\u200b<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Inside: $229<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Cost per day: $44<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">www.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size:9px;\">Photo credit: Trondheim Havn<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago we read about a passenger who went on a &quot;Love Boat&quot; cruise..to 18 countries&#8230;on a ship that carries just 710 passengers&#8230;for 87 days. This was on a P&amp;O ship, the Adonia, and it prompted us to see what the ship is currently offering in theway of a cruise where so few people&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=17971\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long Cruise&#8230;Short List of Passengers<\/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":[16,32,25,36,19,15],"tags":[1279,137,154,834,912,72,35,1280,778,291],"class_list":["post-17971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-adonia","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-fascination","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-exotic-cruises","tag-po-cruises","tag-world-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17971","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=17971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}