{"id":2181,"date":"2010-07-16T01:14:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2010-07-16T01:14:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:14:48","slug":"ncl-epic-royal-caribbean-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"One Take on the Epic vs the Oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Canada’s most accomplished and most credible cruise writer, \"\"<\/a>our colleague Phil Reimer, has written a particularly compelling column for his readers this weekend. He’s making a first-hand comparison between the much-ballyhooed Epic (above) from Norwegian Cruise Lines<\/a>, and the somewhat-forgotten Oasis of the Seas (below), known around the world as Royal Caribbean’s<\/a> and the biggest cruise ship in the universe.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As he tells readers in 11 newspapers<\/a> across the country, and on his website (portsandbows.com<\/a>), Reimer decided to play the apples-to-apples game.<\/p>\n

“I decided to do a cost-comparison,” he writes. “I selected one date in the fall and one in the New Year.”<\/p>\n

Here’s the way it looked\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 27 departure:
\n<\/strong>Epic<\/a> \u2014 Inside stateroom $659,
\nBalcony $949, Solo cabins $849
\nOasis<\/a> \u2014 Inside $969, Balcony $1,219 (no solo cabins)<\/p>\n

January 22 departure:
\n<\/strong>Epic \u2014 Inside $759, Balcony $1,049 Solo $909
\nOasis \u2014 Inside $999, Balcony $1,149<\/p>\n

The Epic is the first new ship with staterooms built specifically for singles, or solos. Pricing was at time of writing and subject to change.<\/p>\n

So, where would you spend your cruise dollars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canada’s most accomplished and most credible cruise writer, our colleague Phil Reimer, has written a particularly compelling column for his readers this weekend. He’s making a first-hand comparison between the much-ballyhooed Epic (above) from Norwegian Cruise Lines, and the somewhat-forgotten Oasis of the Seas (below), known around the world as Royal Caribbean’s and the biggest… Continue reading One Take on the Epic vs the Oasis<\/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":[25,36,19,15],"tags":[86,29,126,53,26,27,33],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-ships","tag-epic","tag-norwegian","tag-oasis-of-the-seas","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","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=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}