{"id":19530,"date":"2013-12-05T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=19530"},"modified":"2013-12-05T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T09:00:40","slug":"thursday-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=19530","title":{"rendered":"Viking Offer for China a Bucket Lister?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going to China isn't something that's ever made it onto our <\/span>Bucket List<\/i> but if it did, could there be a more appealing way to go than on a river cruise?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are many choices, and one of them caught our eyes this week because it seems somewhat affordable, which river cruises often aren't for the average traveler, from Viking Cruises<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

How does this sound?<\/span><\/p>\n

A 13-day cruisetour called Imperial Jewels of China<\/i> at the end of February, from Shanghai<\/a> to Beijing<\/a> for $3,000 per person. That's about $230 a day and it includes 11 guided tours to many places a first-time tourist would like to see — The Great Wall<\/a>, Three Gorges Dam<\/a>, the Forbidden City<\/a>, Tiananmen Square<\/a> — in addition to all the usual accoutrements like a balcony room, just about all meals, two nights in upscale hotels, two Intra-China flights.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ship is the Viking Emerald<\/a> and, yes, of course you also have to fly to China. Viking's got a deal on that, too — $797, a 2-for-1 offer that applies on flights from Los Angeles<\/a>, Portland<\/a>, San Francisco<\/a> and Seattle<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Add it all up and you can spend 13 days seeing China for under $3,800 per person. Viking's regular price for all this is $8,595.<\/span><\/p>\n

Are we going?<\/span><\/p>\n

Can't make it this time…we have a commitment in Washington<\/a> DC the day the cruise ends.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it just might go on the bucket list after all.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Norwegian Sky<\/a>
\n\t4 nights<\/span>
\n\tJanuary 6, 2014<\/span>
\n\tMiami<\/a> (return): <\/span>Grand Bahama<\/a>, <\/span>Nassau<\/a>, <\/span>Great Stirrup Cay<\/a>
\n\tInside: $149<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $39<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going to China isn't something that's ever made it onto our Bucket List but if it did, could there be a more appealing way to go than on a river cruise? There are many choices, and one of them caught our eyes this week because it seems somewhat affordable, which river cruises often aren't for… Continue reading Viking Offer for China a Bucket Lister?<\/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":[16,32,31,36,19,15],"tags":[1101,252,251,912,72,35,527,23,79,1432,42,1480,269,1481,282],"class_list":["post-19530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-asia-cruises","tag-china","tag-china-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-great-wall-of-china","tag-holland-america","tag-panama-canal","tag-river-cruise-itineraries","tag-river-cruises","tag-river-cruising","tag-veendam","tag-viking-emerald","tag-viking-river-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530","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=19530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}