{"id":20744,"date":"2014-05-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20744"},"modified":"2014-05-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T08:00:00","slug":"thursday-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20744","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Reason For Canceling A Port Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two cruise ports named Sydney. One is in Australia, the other in Canada. Norwegian ships don't go to the former and, as of October 6, they won't be visiting the latter until further notice…and you'll never guess why.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of buses.<\/p>\n

If you can believe it, Norwegian<\/a> is taking a pass on Sydney<\/a>, Nova Scotia, for the next two years because there aren't enough buses to transport passengers to shore excursions. There is finger-pointing as to who's at fault — the local agent for not \"Norwegian<\/a>getting enough buses or the government for making it difficult to import buses from outside Nova Scotia — but the bottom line is Norwegian couldn't satisfy its passengers.<\/p>\n

According to locals, the cruise line was going to drop Sydney this year but gave the city a grace period to find a solution. Its not just norwegian, either, as other cruise lines have expressed concerns about meeting the needs of cruise tourists.<\/p>\n

In the case of this year, it's not a huge deal because the Norwegian Dawn<\/a> is only stopping in Sydney twice  — September 22 and October 6. <\/p>\n

However, once the cord is cut…<\/p>\n

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

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Norwegian Breakaway<\/a>
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tJune 1, 2014<\/span>
\n\tNew York<\/a> (return): <\/span>King’s Wharf<\/a>
\n\tInside: $489<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $69<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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There are two cruise ports named Sydney. One is in Australia, the other in Canada. Norwegian ships don't go to the former and, as of October 6, they won't be visiting the latter until further notice…and you'll never guess why. Because of buses. If you can believe it, Norwegian is taking a pass on Sydney,… Continue reading Unusual Reason For Canceling A Port Call<\/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":[267,912,72,51,35,126,721,225,26,1616,27,93,1617],"class_list":["post-20744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-bermuda","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruises","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-breakaway","tag-norwegian-dawn","tag-phil-reimer","tag-port-cancellations","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-shore-excursions","tag-sydney-nova-scotia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20744","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=20744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}