{"id":20489,"date":"2014-04-08T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20489"},"modified":"2014-04-08T01:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T08:00:06","slug":"tuesday-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20489","title":{"rendered":"Covering The Caribbean From One Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"

— map by cartographer Karl Musser<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

When taking a Caribbean cruise — the most popular cruises anywhere — sometimes the trick can be to find ports less-visited. That's less-visited by you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As interesting as places like Nassau and Cozumel and Barbados are, how many visits are too many?<\/span><\/p>\n

Carnival<\/a> has an interesting twist, set for late next year and early 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can take a cruise from the "heartland" of American cruising, Galveston<\/a>, to the heart of the Caribbean, San Juan<\/a>. It's an 11-day trip with six port stops. And then you can cruise back, with six more ports in 10 days.<\/span><\/p>\n

That's three weeks on the ship, which will be the Triumph<\/a>, and 12 ports. And here's the best part: Only one port is a repeat. In other words, you can see 11 places in the Caribbean on the same trip…okay, a two-in-one cruise.<\/span><\/p>\n

The concept is not all that's new for Carnival. So are many of the ports. Carnival ships have never been to Bonaire<\/a> and have rarely taken passengers to Antigua<\/a>, Grenada<\/a> and Martinique<\/a>. Also on the port agenda are Aruba<\/a>, Grand Cayman<\/a>, St. Maarten<\/a> (once each way), Grand Turk<\/a>, St. Thomas<\/a>, St. Kitts<\/a> and Half Moon Cay<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Get out your map and take a look. Draw a line through the Caribbean from Miami<\/a> and around the east end of the world's most famous islands and back via Grand Cayman and you'll see that you'll see a generous part of the entire Caribbean.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are only two opportunities. The Triumph will leave Galveston in October (2015) and again in January (2016), with the return trips in October and late January, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can do one of the two, of course, but that means flying to or from San Juan. Double up, and forget the air fare.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh yes, you do need a three-week vacation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: The latest in cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Holland America Nieuw Amsterdam<\/a>
\n\t12 nights<\/span>
\n\tMay 24, 2014<\/span>
\n\tVenice<\/a> (return): <\/span>Olympia<\/a>, <\/span>Athens<\/a>, <\/span>Istanbul<\/a>, <\/span>Lesbos<\/a>, <\/span>Ephesus<\/a>, <\/span>Santorini<\/a>, <\/span>Argostoli<\/a>
\n\tInside: $929<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $77<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.hollandamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— map by cartographer Karl Musser When taking a Caribbean cruise — the most popular cruises anywhere — sometimes the trick can be to find ports less-visited. That's less-visited by you. As interesting as places like Nassau and Cozumel and Barbados are, how many visits are too many? Carnival has an interesting twist, set for late… Continue reading Covering The Caribbean From One Ship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,31,19,15],"tags":[137,1594,154,647,912,72,51,35,385,23,30,24,76],"class_list":["post-20489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-caribbean-ports","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-triumph","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruises","tag-galveston","tag-holland-america","tag-mediterranean-cruise","tag-nieuw-amsterdam","tag-san-juan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489","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=20489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489\/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=20489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}