{"id":19164,"date":"2013-10-24T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=19164"},"modified":"2013-10-24T01:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T08:00:47","slug":"thursday-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=19164","title":{"rendered":"News: Ruby Princess Takes &#039;Short&#039; To New Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ruby-with-Nieuw-Amst-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruby with Nieuw Amst copy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19205\" height=\"382\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ruby-with-Nieuw-Amst-copy.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Short has many meanings. When one of us asks the other why she is &quot;short&quot; (as in curt) she says she can&#39;t help it because her parents were short (as in height). Laugh. Short also applies to not having enough cash. Or distance, from A to B. And now, more than ever, it applies to cruises.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">In response to public demand (or at least preference), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/\">Princess<\/a> is adding more &quot;short&quot; cruises &mdash; moistly four days long. For example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/learn\/ships\/ru\/index.html\">Ruby Princess<\/a> is sailing four of them as Caribbean getaways in the month of December, and there is talk Princess will ramp up the number right into 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">We&#39;ve been on a couple of shorties, three or four days, but they wouldn&#39;t be our choice. When we cruise, the idea of a &quot;getaway&quot; is a chance to relax, which usually takes most people more than a few days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">However, times have changed. Maybe the fast-food, quick-hit, short-clip world is starting to impact the cruise business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Or maybe &quot;short&quot; was just looking for another definition.<\/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.celebritycruises.com\/plancruise\/ships\/ship.do;jsessionid=0000whxAuwbZ6DPnXJHW_oCH5Sm:12hdebcnj?shipCode=EQ&amp;cS=SIDENAV\" style=\"font-size: 13.333333969116211px; text-align: center;\">Celebrity Equinox<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">14 nights<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">November 25, 2013<\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barcelona.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Barcelona<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cartagena,_Colombia\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Cartagena<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spain.info\/en_CA\/ven\/provincias\/malaga.html\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Malaga<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.institucional.cadiz.es\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Cadiz<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenerifeguide.org\/tenerife-carnival.asp\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Tenerife<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ci.ftlaud.fl.us\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Balcony: $849<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Cost per day: $70<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.com\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;\">www.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short has many meanings. When one of us asks the other why she is &quot;short&quot; (as in curt) she says she can&#39;t help it because her parents were short (as in height). Laugh. Short also applies to not having enough cash. Or distance, from A to B. And now, more than ever, it applies to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=19164\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">News: Ruby Princess Takes &#039;Short&#039; To New Heights<\/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":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[137,138,584,912,72,819,35,957,829,244,148],"class_list":["post-19164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-equinox","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-princess-cruises","tag-ruby-princess","tag-short-cruises","tag-transatlantic-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19164","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=19164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}