{"id":1884,"date":"2010-06-25T02:26:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T09:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2010-06-25T02:26:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T09:26:52","slug":"new-orleans-more-cruise-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"Some Good News for NOLA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Question:\u00a0What’s better than being able to book a cruise out of New Orleans?<\/p>\n

Answer: Being able to book two!<\/p>\n

That’s the feeling of Carnival Cruise Lines<\/a>, and if you want to think this is a cold, hard business decision, go for it. As veterans of one cruise out of NOLA, we prefer to think the Carnival world just tuned in to our way of thinking.<\/p>\n

Carnival’s Triumph has been sailing out of New Orleans<\/a>, along with the Norwegian<\/a> Spirit and Royal Caribbean’s<\/a> Voyager of the Seas. Now the Triumph has been traded to Galveston<\/a> in a two-for-one deal that sends the Conquest and the Ecstasy to the Louisiana port. Carnival says a newly-christened ship will also be despatched to the Texas port.<\/p>\n

It all happens in the fall of 2011, and sets up the Battle of the Gulf between the two leading port cities on the Gulf Coast. New Orleans is aiming for a million passengers \u2014 for the first time. More importantly, the expansion sends a strong message that, come oil or hurricanes, Carnival believes in New Orleans as a port of growth\u2026exactly what embattled Louisianans want to hear.<\/p>\n

With renovations to a third cruise ship terminal about to begin, with the Super Bowl (2013) and the Final Four (2012) scheduled for the Superdome<\/a>, and with Carnival’s inventory returning to its pre-Katrina levels, there is reason for optimism in one of America’s most fun cities.<\/p>\n

To which we say: “Whoo Dat!!!”<\/p>\n

That’s it, we’re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question:\u00a0What’s better than being able to book a cruise out of New Orleans? Answer: Being able to book two! That’s the feeling of Carnival Cruise Lines, and if you want to think this is a cold, hard business decision, go for it. As veterans of one cruise out of NOLA, we prefer to think the… Continue reading Some Good News for NOLA<\/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":[16,31,19,15],"tags":[154,51,86,33],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruise-ships","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","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=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}