{"id":22321,"date":"2014-11-11T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=22321"},"modified":"2014-11-11T01:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T09:00:14","slug":"tuesday-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22321","title":{"rendered":"New York: 'Hello, Quantum of the Seas'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was just over a year ago that the world was “introduced” to Quantum of the Seas<\/a> in New York. The quotation marks are because what those of us who were in Manhattan that day saw was conceptual. Drawings, artistic conceptions, videos and promises by Royal <\/a>\"Kristin<\/a>Caribbean<\/a>\u00a0CEO Richard Fain that it\u00a0would be the most technologically astute ship the cruise world had ever seen. Only its Godmother, the personable actress Kristin Chenoweth<\/a>, was real.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the real Quantum of the Seas arrived in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On board was the Godmother, of course. On board was the North Star<\/i>, extending 300 feet vertically once the ship cleared the Verrazano Bridge to show off its most visual technology advance to the folks in The Big Apple as Quantum of the Seas detoured around New York Harbor and past the Statue of Liberty<\/a> before heading back to the “other” Liberty (Cape Liberty<\/a>), its New Jersey home. On board were dignitaries and media types and, yes, real passengers for Quantum’s authentic maiden cruise, from Southampton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the third-largest cruise ship in the world \u2014 behind its sisters Oasis of the Seas<\/a> and Allure of the Seas<\/a>. It can carry close to 5,000 passengers, or about 1,000 fewer than the \"North<\/a>siblings. It has innovations that include a chance for its passengers to go sky diving (simulated), to ride bumper cars, to board it in 10 minutes using digital technology and to buy drinks from a robot at one of its bars.<\/p>\n

The irony in all of this is that New Yorkers needn’t get too attached to Quantum of the Seas. After the christening ceremony on Friday, she’ll only be with them for six months before heading to her “permanent” home in Singapore<\/a>, to be replaced on the shores of New Jersey by a reasonable facsimile, Anthem of the Seas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That, it’s said, will not be a “quantum” leap.<\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: The latest in cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Norwegian Sun
\n<\/a>7 nights
\nNovember 30, 2014
\nTampa<\/a> (return): Roatan<\/a>, Belize<\/a>, Costa Maya<\/a>, Cozumel
\n<\/a>Inside: $269
\nCost per day: $38<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was just over a year ago that the world was “introduced” to Quantum of the Seas in New York. The quotation marks are because what those of us who were in Manhattan that day saw was conceptual. Drawings, artistic conceptions, videos and promises by Royal Caribbean\u00a0CEO Richard Fain that it\u00a0would be the most technologically… Continue reading New York: 'Hello, Quantum of the Seas'<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[203,1542,137,912,72,819,86,35,453,1185,1126,1295,126,367,53,26,27,1186,33,1242],"class_list":["post-22321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-allure-of-the-seas","tag-anthem-of-the-seas","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-godmothers","tag-kristin-chenoweth","tag-new-york","tag-north-star","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sun","tag-oasis-of-the-seas","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-quantum-of-the-seas","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-ship-christening-ceremonies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22321","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=22321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22321\/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=22321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}