{"id":19871,"date":"2014-01-22T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=19871"},"modified":"2014-01-22T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T09:00:50","slug":"wednesday-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=19871","title":{"rendered":"Crime On the Rise? Find Out Yourself!"},"content":{"rendered":"

They say crime is on the rise in <\/span>Nassau<\/a>, the popular <\/span>Bahamian<\/a> cruise port — "they" being (among others) a website authored by maritime lawyer <\/span>Jim Walker<\/a>, an industrious watchdog of sorts for all things cruising.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

According to Walker's writings, armed robbery is up in Nassau and recently even a daycare was a victim of the thieves. His business is all about cruise passengers' rights so it's safe to say he's not on the Christmas card list of any of the cruise lines.<\/span><\/p>\n

His warning in the Bahamas, and perhaps other places, is that travel agents and cruise lines neglect to caution tourists of imminent danger…or increased imminent danger. To that end, Walker recommends that cruise passengers become their own advocates and do lots of homework before disembarking in ports.<\/span><\/p>\n

He suggests that "homework" means reading the local papers and other media sources in the city and\/or country you're visiting. We've never been influenced much by such research, our theory being that there are good people and bad people everywhere, and being a victim is most times being in the wrong place at the wrong time.<\/span><\/p>\n

But if you have safety concerns about visiting somewhere, Walker's advice is good…whether travel agents and cruise lines like it or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Celebrity Century<\/a>
\n\t3 nights<\/span>
\n\tFebruary 12, 2014<\/span>
\n\tFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): <\/span>Nassau<\/a>, <\/span>Coco Cay<\/a>
\n\tInside: $159<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $53<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say crime is on the rise in Nassau, the popular Bahamian cruise port — "they" being (among others) a website authored by maritime lawyer Jim Walker, an industrious watchdog of sorts for all things cruising. According to Walker's writings, armed robbery is up in Nassau and recently even a daycare was a victim of… Continue reading Crime On the Rise? Find Out Yourself!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,31,36,15],"tags":[170,137,607,138,912,72,51,35,1162,434,1025,1516],"class_list":["post-19871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-bahamas","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-celebrity-century","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruises","tag-jim-walker","tag-nassau","tag-problems-for-ports","tag-safety-in-ports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871","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=19871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871\/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=19871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}