Back to the hotel-ship.<\/p>\n
It’s in a city called Gangneung (or Jeongdongjin)<\/span>, on the coast of South Korea, due east of Seoul. Make that, above a city, because this cruise ship sits on the top of a cliff where you can reputedly have “the best view of the sunrise\/sunset in Korea.” The hotel is surely the best-kept secret in the cruise community \u2014 maybe because it’s outside competition.<\/p>\n It’s been around for 12 years. Accommodation in its 211 rooms is “luxurious.” It has both condominiums and hotel-style rooms. The “ship” is 165 meters long and 45 meters high, and weighs 30,000 tons. For comparison, it would be slightly smaller than a ship like the Ocean Princess<\/a>.<\/p>\n And here’s the best part: If our research is accurate, the price of accommodation starts at 80,000 wan, which sounds like a lot until you convert it and discover that’s about $75.<\/p>\n The next-best part: You can’t get seasick.<\/p>\n Photo by Wikimedia Commons: parhessiastest<\/i><\/p>\n Today at\u00a0portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: The latest in cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Caribbean Princess One of our daughters-in-law, who knows something about the hotel business, tipped us off about a rather unique place to stay. Lots of cruise ships are called hotels\u2026this is a hotel that’s a cruise ship and, yes, there is a difference. It’s in South Korea. Our daughter-in-law (Kim) found the “Sun Cruise Resort &… Continue reading The Hotel That's A Cruise Ship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,329,19,15],"tags":[137,564,912,72,35,2210,1059,26,27,957,1727,1215,1728],"class_list":["post-21887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deals","category-hotels","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-caribbean-princess","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-hotels","tag-ocean-princess","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-sliptalk","tag-south-korea","tag-sun-cruise-resort-yacht","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887","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=21887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887\/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=21887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
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\n<\/a>5 nights
\nDecember 13, 2014
\nFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): Cozumel<\/a>, Costa Maya
\n<\/a>Inside: $299
\nCost per day: $59
\n<\/strong><\/span>www.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"