{"id":19470,"date":"2013-11-25T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=19470"},"modified":"2013-11-25T01:00:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T09:00:23","slug":"monday-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=19470","title":{"rendered":"Cruise numbers continue to grow in Bermuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">We won&#39;t tell you how many years it took us to discover <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bermuda.com\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Bermuda<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">, other than&nbsp; to say &quot;a lot.&quot; Our first trip there was on a cruise ship, earlier this year. As a tourist destination, Bermuda has been around for a few hundred years&hellip;or just a little longer than we have.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Now, and this year more than ever, others are discovering it as we did, on a cruise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">By year-end, there will have been almost 350,000 passengers to visit Bermuda, undoubtedly some of them for the first time. Next year, it will be more, and they&#39;ll come not just from all kinds of ships, but from all kinds of directions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Ships&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">There have been the usual ships, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/\">Royal Caribbean&#39;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ships\/class\/ship\/home.do;jsessionid=0000qNZMYvzM70BFt-cLBOv1KIR:12hbioan0?br=R&amp;shipClassCode=VY&amp;shipCode=EX\">Explorer of the Seas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/\">Norwegian&#39;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/ship\/dawn\/overview\">Dawn<\/a>, making regular calls to the Royal Naval Dockyard at this, Great Britain&#39;s oldest overseas territory. Then this year, along came the Norwegian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakaway.ncl.com\/\">Breakaway<\/a>, from New York every week, ands with it another 90,000 tourists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/index.html\">Princess<\/a> will be making a stop with three ships next year &mdash; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/learn\/ships\/ru\/index.html\">Ruby Princess<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/learn\/ships\/ep\/index.html\">Emerald Princess<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/learn\/ships\/op\/index.html\">Ocean Princess<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/\">Carnival<\/a> will pop in with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cms\/fun\/ships\/carnival_spirit\/default.aspx?shipCode=SP\">Spirit<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cms\/fun\/ships\/carnival_splendor\/default.aspx?shipCode=SL\">Splendor<\/a> for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Directions&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Most ships have been coming from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/portal\/site\/nycgov\/?front_door=true\">New York<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofboston.gov\/\">Boston<\/a> areas. In 2014, they&#39;ll also come from South Carolina, and Bermuda&#39;s plan to expand on that include courting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aida.de\/\">Aida<\/a>, a little-known German cruise line that has a limited presence in North America. The next thing you know, they&#39;ll be coming to Bermuda straight from Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">If you&#39;ve been there that won&#39;t surprise you. If you haven&#39;t, go.<\/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: 13px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cruise-ships\/new-carnival-sunshine.aspx\" style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\">Carnival Sunshine<\/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;\">February 2, 2014<\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neworleansonline.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">New Orleans<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;(return):&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keywest.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Key West<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebahamasguide.com\/islands\/grandbahama\/default.htm\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Freeport<\/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<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Inside: $429<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Cost per day: $61<\/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; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We won&#39;t tell you how many years it took us to discover Bermuda, other than&nbsp; to say &quot;a lot.&quot; Our first trip there was on a cruise ship, earlier this year. As a tourist destination, Bermuda has been around for a few hundred years&hellip;or just a little longer than we have. Now, and this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=19470\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cruise numbers continue to grow in Bermuda<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,31,19,15],"tags":[687,267,735,137,154,772,478,850,912,72,35,856,1126,126,721,225,1059,957,33,829],"class_list":["post-19470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-aida-cruises","tag-bermuda","tag-boston","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-spirit","tag-carnival-splendor","tag-carnival-sunshine","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-explorer-of-the-seas","tag-new-york","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-breakaway","tag-norwegian-dawn","tag-ocean-princess","tag-princess-cruises","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-ruby-princess","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19470","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=19470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19470\/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=19470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}