{"id":18675,"date":"2013-08-30T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=18675"},"modified":"2013-08-30T01:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T08:00:05","slug":"friday-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=18675","title":{"rendered":"A Break for Taking Kids to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em;\">Every parent knows kids aren&#39;t &quot;free.&quot; Every cruise passenger has heard of a variety of &quot;kids sail free&quot; promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Royal Caribbean has a novel one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">It&#39;s called &quot;Kids Tour Free&quot; and it&#39;s just what is implied. Shore excursions for kids 12 years and under &mdash; try and tell teenagers that they&#39;re &quot;kids&quot; &mdash; go on shore excursions with their parents (who pay) at no charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">This is for 2014 cruises in Europe. Cruises have to be booked by the end of September and shore excursions by the middle of December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Obviously, North American parents who can afford to fly their kids to Europe to go on a cruise have some disposable income set aside for travel. But it&#39;s a nice touch to get some relief from what is already going to be an expensive vacation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">And it gets a little better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Book your airfare through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/home.do\">Royal Caribbean&#39;s<\/a> <em>ChoiceAir<\/em> program and you get $1,000 off the cost of your stateroom, if it&#39;s at least at the balcony level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">So while it won&#39;t make your kids &quot;free&quot; it will make them less expensive.<\/span><\/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\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.333333969116211px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cms\/fun\/ships\/carnival_liberty\/default.aspx?shipCode=LI\" style=\"font-size: 13.333333969116211px; text-align: center;\">Carnival Liberty<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">7 nights<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">November 16, 2013<\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Miami<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;(return):&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islacozumel.com.mx\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Cozumel<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelbelize.org\/index.php\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Belize<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roatanonline.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Roatan<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caymanislands.ky\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Grand Cayman<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Inside: $309<\/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=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;\">www.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Every parent knows kids aren&#39;t &quot;free.&quot; Every cruise passenger has heard of a variety of &quot;kids sail free&quot; promotions. Royal Caribbean has a novel one. It&#39;s called &quot;Kids Tour Free&quot; and it&#39;s just what is implied. Shore excursions for kids 12 years and under &mdash; try and tell teenagers that they&#39;re &quot;kids&quot; &mdash; go&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=18675\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Break for Taking Kids to Europe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,31,15],"tags":[137,154,738,912,72,35,1351,124,33,93],"class_list":["post-18675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-liberty","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-europe-cruises-2014","tag-kids","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-shore-excursions","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18675","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=18675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18675\/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=18675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}