{"id":20019,"date":"2014-02-12T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20019"},"modified":"2014-02-12T01:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T09:00:15","slug":"wednesday-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20019","title":{"rendered":"About The Laying Of A New Cruise Ship's Keel…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having never seen the laying of a keel on a cruise ship, we were intrigued by the opportunity to watch the procedure online. It was courtesy of Viking, the river cruise line that's soon to be an ocean cruise line, once its <\/span>Viking Star<\/a> is in the water next year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you're interested, click here: vikingcruises.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It only takes two minutes but be forewarned: about 25 seconds of it is devoted to the "breath-taking moment" — the laying of the keel. The rest is information and <\/span>\"Star-keel<\/a>face time for Viking<\/a> owner Torstein Hagen, whose vision it was to add a 928-passenger ship to the worldwide fleet.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Viking Star will be an evolution of sorts. Billed as "the ship our river passengers inspired us to build" it hopes to fill one of the remaining niche markets that still exists on the ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

And by the way, the Star is sold out for 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Holland America Statendam<\/a>
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tSeptember 21, 2014<\/span>
\n\tVancouver<\/a> (return): <\/span>Juneau<\/a>, <\/span>Skagway<\/a>, <\/span>Tracy Arm<\/a>, <\/span>Ketchikan<\/a>
\n\tInside: $529<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $75<\/strong>
\n\twww.hollandamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having never seen the laying of a keel on a cruise ship, we were intrigued by the opportunity to watch the procedure online. It was courtesy of Viking, the river cruise line that's soon to be an ocean cruise line, once its Viking Star is in the water next year. If you're interested, click here:… Continue reading About The Laying Of A New Cruise Ship's Keel…<\/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":[45,912,72,35,23,867,868,839,1250,1540,1541],"class_list":["post-20019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-alaska","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-holland-america","tag-new-river-cruise-ships","tag-river-cruise-ships","tag-statendam","tag-torstein-hagen","tag-viking-cruises","tag-viking-star","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20019","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=20019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}