{"id":22028,"date":"2014-10-07T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=22028"},"modified":"2014-10-07T01:00:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T08:00:58","slug":"tuesday-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22028","title":{"rendered":"From The Eye Of A Hurricane\u2026Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our resident expert on all things Mexico is Barbra Bishop of Mexpeditions<\/a>, a travel agency that specializes in everywhere (and everything) south of the border. The other day she was telling us a story about Cabo San Lucas<\/a> and last month’s Hurricane Odile (below).<\/p>\n

The short version is that during the worst of the hurricane, visitors to a Los Cabos hotel were being comforted\u00a0by workers who themselves had lost (almost) everything, yet \"Hurricane<\/a>wouldn’t desert\u00a0their customers. Impressed beyond words, the tourists banded together \u2014 after returning to their homes \u2014 and began raising funds to help their Mexican “friends.”<\/p>\n

Natural disasters do that. People always want to help.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the Star Princess<\/a> stopped at Cabo San Lucas. The first cruise ship to respond was loaded with bottled water, paper products, milk and other supplies to help the area’s locals who lost so much.<\/p>\n

Yesterday came the Carnival Miracle<\/a>, whose name was not changed to suit the situation. More bottled water, canned food, diapers, personal items for the Mexican people.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the Category 3 hurricane that killed 15 people, causing $224 million in damage and leaving an estimated 30,000 tourists stranded in the Baja Peninsula’s southern tip, one of the airlines that flew to the rescue was Alaska<\/a>. People had to be airlifted. Planes that flew in were empty of passengers, and full of supplies.<\/p>\n

Maybe the cruise lines felt obliged to help because the Mexican people in such dire straits are the same ones who make cruise passenger visits so enjoyable. Maybe they do it because it’s good PR. Maybe airlines do it for the same reason.<\/p>\n

What matters, however, is that they help.<\/p>\n

And now comes the sobering news that cruise ships and airplanes are not the area’s only visitors this week. Hurricane Simon, originally expected to be no more than a tropical \"Cabo<\/a>storm, is bearing down on the Baja. It’s expected to make landfall tomorrow, probably somewhere north of Cabo San Lucas.<\/p>\n

Will the cruise lines and airlines step up again? Or will it be the tourists who turn the tables and help those who help them?<\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: Cruise news you can use<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Golden Princess
\n<\/a>3 nights
\nOctober 27, 2014
\nLos Angeles<\/a> (return): Ensenada<\/a>
\nInside: $149
\nCost per day: $49
\n<\/strong><\/span>www.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our resident expert on all things Mexico is Barbra Bishop of Mexpeditions, a travel agency that specializes in everywhere (and everything) south of the border. The other day she was telling us a story about Cabo San Lucas and last month’s Hurricane Odile (below). The short version is that during the worst of the hurricane,… Continue reading From The Eye Of A Hurricane\u2026Help<\/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":[16,32,329,25,31,36,19,15],"tags":[109,154,700,912,72,819,35,547,1474,186,1740,542,102,26,27,957,178],"class_list":["post-22028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-hotels","category-people","category-ports","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cabo-san-lucas","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-miracle","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-golden-princess","tag-hurricane-season","tag-hurricanes","tag-los-cabos","tag-mexican-riviera","tag-mexico","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-star-princess","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028","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=22028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}