{"id":20341,"date":"2014-03-24T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20341"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:00:03","slug":"monday-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20341","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Port \u2014 San Pedro, Accessible And Unique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><i style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">This week, we&#39;re featuring ports you may find on your cruise itinerary, to give you a snapshot of what it&#39;s like, what ships usually go there and what some of the options are once you get off the ship. Today it&#39;s San Pedro, California.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">If you&#39;re driving to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanpedro.com\/spcom\/crusshp.htm\">San Pedro<\/a>, parking can be an issue. We&#39;ve boarded ships there after parking in the adjoining lot ($12 a day) and after leaving our car with friends who live nearby (free, but you&#39;ll probably take them for lunch).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">This port is about 20 miles south of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.losangeles.com\/\">Los Angeles<\/a> on Interstate 110 &mdash; although sometimes Los Angeles is 20 miles from Los Angeles &mdash; so there are plenty of<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/San-Pedro-10-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"San Pedro\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20362\" height=\"401\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/San-Pedro-10-copy.jpg\" width=\"650\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">transportation options and no shortage of things to do, depending on how much time you have.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Here&#39;s one: Stay at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwoodhotels.com\/westin\/property\/overview\/index.html?propertyID=1005\">Westin Los Angeles<\/a> at LAX and you can park free for a week. If you&#39;re flying into L.A., there are several shuttle possibilities, usually for <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/San-Pedro-5-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"San Pedro-5 copy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20361\" height=\"467\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/San-Pedro-5-copy.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">about $15 per person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">At your departure point, it&#39;s easy to find things to fill your time. If you have a short stay before boarding a ship, there&#39;s a free shuttle that runs every day a ship is in port, through downtown San Pedro, which of course has shops and multi-cultural restaurants and tourist points. At this time of year, at least for another couple of weeks, there are whale-watching opportunities with priced at $15-$20 for two to three hours on the water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">It&#39;s not far to many museums, beaches and &quot;Old San Pedro&quot; is almost walking distance from the cruise ship&#8230;Fisherman&#39;s Wharf is not much farther.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Sometimes we&#39;ve scheduled our arrival at a cruise port to be as close to departure time as possible, but that means missing the boat &mdash; so to speak &mdash; for an interesting visit to a unique area like San Pedro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">There are several cruise lines using that port but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/index.html\">Princess<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/\">Norwegian<\/a> are the two that regularly have ships leaving from San Pedro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em style=\"font-size: 13px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Today at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsandbows.com\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>: Cognac is more than an apertif<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12028\" height=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" title=\"DailyDeal-2\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritycruises.com\/explore\/ships\/detail.do?shipCode=RF\" style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\">Celebrity Reflection<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">7 nights<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">April 12, 2014<\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Miami<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;(return):&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topuertorico.org\/city\/sanjuan.shtml\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">San Juan<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/st-thomas.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">St. Thomas<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.st-maarten.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">St. Maarten<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Inside: $429<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Cost per day: $61<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritycruises.com\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">www.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we&#39;re featuring ports you may find on your cruise itinerary, to give you a snapshot of what it&#39;s like, what ships usually go there and what some of the options are once you get off the ship. Today it&#39;s San Pedro, California. If you&#39;re driving to San Pedro, parking can be an issue.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20341\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cruise Port \u2014 San Pedro, Accessible And Unique<\/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":[32,329,31,36,19,15],"tags":[1308,137,138,809,912,72,35,737,126,2208,27,957,1582,1583],"class_list":["post-20341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-hotels","category-ports","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-california","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-reflection","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-los-angeles","tag-norwegian","tag-ports","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-san-pedro","tag-westin-los-angeles-lax","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20341","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=20341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}