{"id":20579,"date":"2014-04-22T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20579"},"modified":"2014-04-22T01:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T08:00:33","slug":"tuesday-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20579","title":{"rendered":"A Quantum Leap From April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">It was just one year ago. In New York City, home to Quantum of the Seas, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/home.do\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Royal Caribbean<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"> unveiled its newest and greatest ship at a press conference. The head honchos from the cruise line, Richard Fain and Adam Goldstein, were there. So was <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristin-chenoweth.com\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Kristin Chenoweth<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">, the new ship&#39;s Godmother-to-be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">There was one word on everyone&#39;s lips or, for the writers among us, in everyone&#39;s vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Wow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Fast track 12 months. It&#39;s April again. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ships\/class\/ship\/home.do?shipClassCode=com.rccl.value.catalog.ShipClassValue%401873e71&amp;shipCode=QN&amp;br=R\">Quantum of the Seas<\/a>, still several months from leaving the shipyard, is making news again. And there&#39;s that word again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Wow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The newest and greatest ship from this mainstream cruise line is going to leave North America almost as soon as she arrives. Okay, Quantum will be in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/portal\/site\/nycgov\/?front_door=true\">New York<\/a> from November to May, not even long enough to consummate the relationship. Then she&#39;ll be leaving New York a jilted lover, and running off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanghai.gov.cn\/shanghai\/node23919\/index.html\">Shanghai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Talk about a Shanghai surprise!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">To be fair, she&#39;ll be sending her almost-twin sister as a stand-in. The Anthem of the Seas will become New York&#39;s Royal Caribbean new ship later in 2015, with all the same curves and attributes and flash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">When Quantum arrives in Shanghai, will Kristin Chenoweth be on deck? If she is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Wow!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><em style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Today at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsandbows.com\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: The latest in cruise news<\/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.hollandamerica.com\/cruise-vacation-onboard\/Rotterdam\" style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\">Holland America Rotterdam<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">14 nights<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">May 24, 2014<\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotterdam.info\/cms.php?langid=2&amp;cmspageid=12\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Rotterdam<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;(return):&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcopenhagen.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Copenhagen<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitberlin.de\/en\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Berlin<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourism.tallinn.ee\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Tallinn<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saint-petersburg.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">St.Petersburg<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helsinki.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Helsinki<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitstockholm.com\/en\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Stockholm<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitaarhus.com\/ln-int\/denmark\/tourist-in-aarhus\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Aarhus<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Inside: $999<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Cost per day: $71<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">www.hollandamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just one year ago. In New York City, home to Quantum of the Seas, Royal Caribbean unveiled its newest and greatest ship at a press conference. The head honchos from the cruise line, Richard Fain and Adam Goldstein, were there. So was Kristin Chenoweth, the new ship&#39;s Godmother-to-be. There was one word on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20579\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Quantum Leap From April 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,31,19,15],"tags":[728,1542,991,912,72,819,86,35,453,23,1185,151,1126,994,423,908,33,1603],"class_list":["post-20579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-adam-goldstein","tag-anthem-of-the-seas","tag-baltic-sea","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-godmothers","tag-holland-america","tag-kristin-chenoweth","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-new-york","tag-northern-europe","tag-richard-fain","tag-rotterdam","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-shanghai","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579","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=20579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579\/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=20579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}