{"id":21794,"date":"2014-09-11T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=21794"},"modified":"2014-09-11T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T08:00:17","slug":"21794","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=21794","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Toasted By Wine Spectator"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cellermasters\"<\/a>In case you were wondering\u2026<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Celebrity<\/a> has, arguably, the premier wine reputation among cruise lines. We won’t argue the point. Our best and most complete wine experiences have been on Celebrity ships, starting with a knowledgeable sommelier from (of all places) Mumbai<\/a>. Knowledgable sommelier\u2026aren’t they all?<\/p>\n

Anyway, the Wine Spectator<\/a> has enhanced the reputation by awarding 10 Awards of Excellence<\/i> \u2014 of a possible 12 \u2014 to Celebrity for its wine lists. It’s an instant replay.<\/p>\n

Last year, Celebrity also won 10.<\/p>\n

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Cruise lines are being encouraged to equip their ships to use shore-based electricity in port and burn less diesel fuel. However, the left hand doesn’t always know what the right is doing with regards to the ports.<\/p>\n

When the Carnival Miracle<\/a> stopped in Vancouver<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, it was unable to hook up to shore power even though the ship is equipped for it.<\/p>\n

The reason?<\/p>\n

The ship’s hook-up is on the starboard side. The Port of Vancouver assigned the Miracle a port side connection. Consequently, the ship was forced to burn diesel during its stay in one of the world’s most ecologically sensitive cities.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

When Quantum of the Seas<\/a> leaves on its two-night, pre-inaugural cruise after arriving in North America in November, it will be making special wishes.<\/p>\n

The Make-A-Wish chapters from New Jersey and New York<\/a> are selling passage on the new ship to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation<\/a>, long an active charity on Royal Caribbean<\/a> ships. Quantum leaves Bayonne<\/a>, New Jersey at 4 p.m. on November 14 and returns at 7 a.m. on November 16, so you’re on the ship for about 39 hours.<\/p>\n

Passage is for balcony cabins, at $1,495 for obstructed and $1,995 for unobstructed.<\/p>\n

In other words, it’s pretty much a donation in return for being first to sail on Quantum of the Seas in North America.<\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0Opera on the rivers<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Celebrity Century
\n<\/a>8 nights
\nNovember 11, 2014
\nSydney<\/a> (return): Melbourne<\/a>, Adelaide<\/a>, Port Lincoln
\n<\/a>Oceanview: $835
\nCost per day: $104
\n<\/strong><\/span>www.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you were wondering\u2026 * * * Celebrity has, arguably, the premier wine reputation among cruise lines. We won’t argue the point. Our best and most complete wine experiences have been on Celebrity ships, starting with a knowledgeable sommelier from (of all places) Mumbai. Knowledgable sommelier\u2026aren’t they all? Anyway, the Wine Spectator has enhanced… Continue reading Celebrity Toasted By Wine Spectator<\/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":[16,32,25,31,19,15],"tags":[1355,700,607,138,912,72,819,35,398,26,27,1186,33,88,1717,85],"class_list":["post-21794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-australia-cruising","tag-carnival-miracle","tag-celebrity-century","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-make-a-wish-foundation","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-quantum-of-the-seas","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-wine-on-board","tag-wine-spectator","tag-wine-tasting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794","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=21794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}