{"id":20943,"date":"2014-06-13T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20943"},"modified":"2014-06-13T01:00:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T08:00:58","slug":"friday-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20943","title":{"rendered":"Oceania Ships Have The Same Look Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years ago in the Mediterranean, we were fortunate to be on the <\/span>Oceania Riviera<\/a> for one of its first cruises, with a stop in <\/span>Barcelona<\/a> for the christening and official naming ceremony. This is a smallish ship by ocean-going standards — just 1,250 <\/span>\"Riviera\"<\/a>passengers — and, by any objective cruiser's estimation, the Riviera is one beautiful ship.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a sister to Marina<\/a>, Oceania's first new-build. Before that, three ships that performed for other lines made up the Oceania<\/a> fleet.<\/p>\n

And this year, it's their turn.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, the last of the three — the Regatta<\/a> — came out of dry-dock looking more like her prettier, younger sisters. While beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, and while there's only so much you can do with an old body (we speak from experience), when somebody spends $50 million on ships that are already "nice" you can assume they're going to look more like they belong to the same family.<\/p>\n

The Regatta was the first ship for fledgling Oceania Cruises, 11 years ago, along with the Insignia<\/a>. Both were known as "R ships" from bankrupt Renaissance Cruises. Two years later, along came the Nautica<\/a>, another former R ship, and that was the fleet until \"Riviera\"<\/a>Marina arrived, squeaky clean and new, in 2011.<\/p>\n

This is the second time the Regatta has been refurbished in three years and most of its new look has to do with cosmetics…isn't that always the case? It also features a couple of popular and proven Marina and Riviera additions: Baristas<\/i> coffee bar and the Terrace Cafe<\/i>. That's the same treatment the Nautica and Insignia both received before they emerged from dry-dock last month.<\/p>\n

When the Riviera arrived in 2012, it was from the same Fincantieri Shipyard<\/a> that delivered Marina. About the same time, Insignia was being leased to Hapag-Lloyd Cruises<\/a> for two years, probably for financial reasons. She returned last month and Oceania again became a five-ship fleet, but won't likely stay that way for long.<\/p>\n

Plans are in place with Fincantieri for two more new ships.<\/p>\n

If the Marina and the Riveria hadn't been so popular, that wouldn't happen.<\/p>\n

Today at Phil Reimer's <\/span><\/a>portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: Quantum of the Seas and entertainment<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Norwegian Sky<\/a>
\n\t4 nights<\/span>
\n\tSeptember 15<\/span>, 2014<\/span>
\n\tMiami<\/a> (return): <\/span>Grand Bahama<\/a>, <\/span>Nassau<\/a>, <\/span>Great Stirrup Cay<\/a>
\n\tInside: $179<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $44<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two years ago in the Mediterranean, we were fortunate to be on the Oceania Riviera for one of its first cruises, with a stop in Barcelona for the christening and official naming ceremony. This is a smallish ship by ocean-going standards — just 1,250 passengers — and, by any objective cruiser's estimation, the Riviera is… Continue reading Oceania Ships Have The Same Look Now<\/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":[16,32,36,19,15],"tags":[705,137,912,72,819,86,35,566,151,126,375,336,969,513,898,1472,811,26,27,520],"class_list":["post-20943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-barcelona","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-fincantieri-shipyard","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sky","tag-oceania","tag-oceania-insignia","tag-oceania-marina","tag-oceania-nautica","tag-oceania-regatta","tag-oceania-riviera","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-ship-refurbishing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943","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=20943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}