{"id":18667,"date":"2013-08-26T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=18667"},"modified":"2013-08-26T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T08:00:36","slug":"monday-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=18667","title":{"rendered":"L.A. \u2014 More than a Celebrity Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

They say it's hard to believe that a city the size of greater <\/span>Los Angeles<\/a> (12-plus million) doesn't have an <\/span>NFL<\/a> team that calls it home.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It's also hard to believe that a cruise line called "Celebrity" has never had a major presencein the City of Angels<\/em> and movie stars until now. <\/span><\/p>\n

As people who spend a lot of time in California, we sometimes thinks Los Angeles gets a bad rap…or at least a bad break.<\/span><\/p>\n

There's the "self-imposed" smog. There's the Dodgers<\/a>, the only team baseball fans love to \"\"<\/a>hate almost as much as the <\/span>Yankees<\/a>. There's the traffic congestion of freeways stacked like bunk beds. There's the absence of a pro football team for almost two decades, and counting. There's the presence of too many movie stars who make too much money occupying too much time on our TV screens.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And when the cruise business along the Mexican Riviera dried up, so did much of the traffic using the cruise ports in San Pedro<\/a> (Long Beach, above) and Los Angeles<\/a>. But even before that, Celebrity<\/a> never had any of its ships that did more than stop in as they passed by.<\/span><\/p>\n

That's about to change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Celebrity  is dispatching the Century<\/a> to operate seven cruises next year (even though USA Today<\/em><\/a> reports it's eight) with Los Angeles as the home port. There are six round-trip cruises, not one-offs involving ships that are being re-positioned. They will operate north, as opposed to Mexico (south), turning around in San Francisco<\/a>, and three of them will cater to beer and wine connoisseurs.<\/span><\/p>\n

The seventh cruise is to Vancouver<\/a>, as the Century heads for next summer in Alaska<\/a> and the following winter in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Admittedly, it's a temporary home, but isn't that what "celebrities" do?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Holland America Eurodam<\/a>
\n\t10 nights<\/span>
\n\tSeptember 22, 2013<\/span>
\n\tQuebec City<\/a>, <\/span>Charlottetown<\/a>, <\/span>Sydney<\/a>, <\/span>Halifax<\/a>, <\/span>Bar Harbor<\/a>, <\/span>Boston<\/a>, <\/span>Newport<\/a>, <\/span>New York<\/a>
\n\tInside: $699<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $69<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.hollandamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say it's hard to believe that a city the size of greater Los Angeles (12-plus million) doesn't have an NFL team that calls it home. It's also hard to believe that a cruise line called "Celebrity" has never had a major presencein the City of Angels and movie stars until now.  As people who… Continue reading L.A. \u2014 More than a Celebrity Stop<\/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":[16,32,31,19,15],"tags":[607,138,912,72,819,35,23,1165,737,1343,542,941,1344],"class_list":["post-18667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-celebrity-century","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-holland-america","tag-holland-america-eurodam","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mexican-riviera","tag-new-england-cruises","tag-new-york-yankees","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667","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=18667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}