{"id":20231,"date":"2014-03-14T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20231"},"modified":"2014-03-14T01:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T08:00:06","slug":"friday-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20231","title":{"rendered":"Battles Line Being Drawn in Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us are too young — ah, isn't it nice to be called too young? — to remember the Battle of Britain. We read about it in history books, we may have even heard stories from family members who fought in World War II, maybe even seen a movie or something on the History Channel, but it's somewhat removed from our mindsets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To cruise aficionados like us, the Battle of Britain is what's happening this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Royal-6<\/a>Princess<\/a> versus Royal Caribbean<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

They're not exactly launching armadas but they are drawing lines in the water, so to speak, in the fight for United Kingdom cruise passengers and dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n

A year ago, the Duchess of Cambridge (aka, Princess Kate) christened the Royal Princess<\/a> just a few weeks before her own royal offspring arrived — Baby Cambridge is a Royal Prince. The ship she can call her own left later last year to spend the summer in the Caribbean, and now she's going back to her christening roots,<\/span><\/p>\n

Southampton<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next summer, the Royal Princess will be loaded — Princess Cruises hopes — with British passengers. She was to be the biggest ship (3,600 passengers) sailing the English Channel and assorted waters connected to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then Anthem of the Seas (pop. 4,100) came along.<\/span><\/p>\n

Royal Caribbean's newest ship-to-be, No. 2 in the Quantum Class<\/i>, will be launched in April 2015. That's just before the Royal Princess returns and Anthem, too, will be hoping to stock up on British travelers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Add to the mix P&O's new ship, Britannia<\/a>, which will appear a month before Anthem of the Seas.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a good friend and ex-Brit of ours would say "Advantage Princess." To him, Princess and P&O<\/a> are "same thing."<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Ruby Princess<\/a>
\n\t4 nights<\/span>
\n\tMarch 20, 2014 <\/span>
\n\tFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): <\/span>Cozumel<\/a>
\n\tInside $249<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $62<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of us are too young — ah, isn't it nice to be called too young? — to remember the Battle of Britain. We read about it in history books, we may have even heard stories from family members who fought in World War II, maybe even seen a movie or something on the History… Continue reading Battles Line Being Drawn in Great Britain<\/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":[16,32,31,19,15],"tags":[1542,1575,1300,137,912,72,51,86,35,1576,778,957,33,543,829],"class_list":["post-20231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-anthem-of-the-seas","tag-britannia","tag-british-isles-cruises","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-great-britain-cruising","tag-po-cruises","tag-princess-cruises","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-royal-princess","tag-ruby-princess","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231","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=20231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}