{"id":20223,"date":"2014-03-07T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20223"},"modified":"2014-03-07T01:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T09:00:01","slug":"monday-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20223","title":{"rendered":"Quirky, funky, alternative\u2026now No. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When we first sailed on a <\/span>Norwegian<\/a> ship (the <\/span>Star<\/a>), it was a cruise line that was considered a little quirky (have you seen the hull paintings?), a little funky (you could eat at whatever time you wanted) and a little alternative (it was a misfit in <\/span>\"Gem\"<\/a>the world of Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Princess).<\/span><\/p>\n

How things have changed.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Cruise Industry News<\/a> Annual Report, Norwegian ranks third in total capacity, behind Carnival<\/a> and Royal Caribbean<\/a>. The fact that Norwegian added the Breakaway<\/a> and Getaway<\/a> in the last 14 months would account for the latest jump, and for the bulk of its 19 per cent increase in capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Princess<\/a> is No. 4, also with a huge jump (18.5)…can you say Royal Princess<\/a>, the line's first new ship in five years? Costa<\/a>, of all cruise lines, ranks fifth, thanks to two months of 2013 with its new ship (neoRiviera<\/a>). MSC<\/a>, with no new ship, slipped from third to sixth place, which made room for Norwegian to leap-frog the others.<\/span><\/p>\n

With two more new ships on the horizon — the Escape next year and the Bliss in 2017 — it's a status that Norwegian figures to maintain. Barring attrition of its older vessels, those will be the 14th and 15th ships for a line that had only 10 when we boarded the Star six years ago. Carnival currently has 23, Royal Caribbean 21 with two Quantum Class<\/i> ships in the works and Princess 17 with the Regal Princess<\/a> coming.<\/span><\/p>\n

The CIN annual report estimates that with double occupancy Norwegian can carry 1,722,400 passengers. Princess has a capacity of 1.6 million, about 200,000 more than Costa.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not bad for what was a quirky, funky, alternative cruise line.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Celebrity Constellation<\/a>
\n\t9 nights<\/span>
\n\tNovember 29, 2014<\/span>
\n\tFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): <\/span>Labadee<\/a>, <\/span>San Juan<\/a>, <\/span>St. Croix<\/a>, <\/span>St. Barts<\/a>, <\/span>St. Maarten<\/a>
\n\tInside: $699<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $77<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  When we first sailed on a Norwegian ship (the Star), it was a cruise line that was considered a little quirky (have you seen the hull paintings?), a little funky (you could eat at whatever time you wanted) and a little alternative (it was a misfit in the world of Carnival, Royal Caribbean and… Continue reading Quirky, funky, alternative\u2026now No. 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,36,19,15],"tags":[137,154,743,138,1005,1567,912,72,1492,1568,819,35,144,151,126,721,722,426,957,1147,33],"class_list":["post-20223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-celebrity-constellation","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-costa-cruises","tag-costa-neoriviera","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-figures","tag-cruise-industry-news-2","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-msc-cruises","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-breakaway","tag-norwegian-getaway","tag-norwegian-star","tag-princess-cruises","tag-regal-princess","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223","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=20223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223\/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=20223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}