{"id":21949,"date":"2014-09-29T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=21949"},"modified":"2014-09-29T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T08:00:40","slug":"monday-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=21949","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Question: To Surf Or To Drink?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An online travel agency called Cruise Holidays<\/a> conducted a quickie survey on its Facebook<\/a> page recently, asking readers to choose between two options for “something free” if going on a cruise:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Free Internet<\/p>\n

\u2022 Free drinks<\/p>\n

The creators could’ve called it De-vices vs Vices<\/i> but they didn’t. They also resisted the \"Burrowing<\/a>\"iPhone\"<\/a>urge to call it a “straw poll” although that’s what it was. What they did call it was “shocking” because when the results were compiled, nearly one-third of the respondents said “free Internet.”<\/p>\n

Think about that. Drinks on cruise ships are expensive \u2014 all drinks, including soda pop. One estimate is that a couple could save more than $1,000 on a 10-day cruise with a free drinks package. Plus people go on cruise ships to get away from the office, so to speak, right? Plus holidaying and partying and socializing usually comes with a generous number of drinks (alcoholic or not), and that’s a big part of being on a cruise.<\/p>\n

Yet 32 per cent of the people who responded to the question chose free Internet. Maybe it shouldn’t be such a shock. After all, people are infatuated with \u2014 dare we say addicted to? \u2014 “devices.”<\/p>\n

What would you choose?<\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m:\u00a0More flights to ports from Canada<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Norwegian Star
\n<\/a>7 nights
\nNovember 30, 2014
\nLos Angeles<\/a> (return): Cabo San Lucas<\/a>, Mazatlan<\/a>, Puerto Vallarta<\/a>
\nInside: $299
\nCost per day: $42<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An online travel agency called Cruise Holidays conducted a quickie survey on its Facebook page recently, asking readers to choose between two options for “something free” if going on a cruise: \u2022 Free Internet \u2022 Free drinks The creators could’ve called it De-vices vs Vices but they didn’t. They also resisted the urge to call… Continue reading Cruise Question: To Surf Or To Drink?<\/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":[16,32,25,36,15],"tags":[912,72,1492,1306,35,561,1545,1368,542,102,126,426,26,27,116],"class_list":["post-21949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-figures","tag-cruise-surveys","tag-cruises","tag-drinking-on-ships","tag-free-wifi","tag-internet-on-cruise-ships","tag-mexican-riviera","tag-mexico","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-star","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-wine","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949","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=21949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}