{"id":22692,"date":"2014-12-18T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=22692"},"modified":"2014-12-18T01:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T09:00:37","slug":"thursday-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22692","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Ships A Respite From Cats?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A husband and wife in Dublin<\/a> had an unusual request for a travel writer this month: How could they take a cat-free holiday? The wife had a “cat phobia” and it didn’t matter where they went in Europe, there were cats…in restaurants, under tables, in hotel lobbies, even on the street!<\/p>\n

\"Cat\"<\/a>Millions of us who travel on almost any cruise ship had the obvious answer, but it took the travel writer a while to get around to it.<\/p>\n

She did her homework, because that’s what travel writers do. At Euromonitor<\/a>, she discovered a graph of “cat- and dog- owning nations” but we couldn’t find it so we’re not sure if she was looking for the pet population — or nations that are owned by cats and dogs. <\/p>\n

Neither came up.<\/p>\n

The travel writer did point out that cruise ships are cat-free, then went on to reveal that Barcelona<\/a> is a big cruise port (really?) and that there are usually “coach or boat excursions” operated in cruise ports. She even mentioned the names of a few cruise lines…Celebrity<\/a>, Norwegian<\/a>, Royal Caribbean<\/a>, MSC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She did miss the boat on a couple of things. One, Cunard<\/a> does allow cats<\/a> on its three ships — they stay in an on-board kennel and their owners are allowed regular visits. And two, she should’ve told them to avoid Oasis of the Seas<\/a>, the world’s biggest cruise ship.<\/p>\n

Because Oasis has CATS!<\/a><\/p>\n

The musical.<\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Cruise update — women rule!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas<\/a>
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tJanuary 18, 2015<\/span>
\n\tGalveston<\/a> (return): <\/span>Falmouth<\/a>, <\/span>George Town<\/a>, <\/span>Cozumel<\/a> <\/span>
\n\tInside: $387<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $55<\/strong>
\n\twww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A husband and wife in Dublin had an unusual request for a travel writer this month: How could they take a cat-free holiday? The wife had a “cat phobia” and it didn’t matter where they went in Europe, there were cats…in restaurants, under tables, in hotel lobbies, even on the street! Millions of us who… Continue reading Cruise Ships A Respite From Cats?<\/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":[32,25,19,15],"tags":[705,137,1595,138,912,72,35,150,1832,144,395,126,53,26,27,33,1833],"class_list":["post-22692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-barcelona","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cats","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-cunard","tag-dublin","tag-msc-cruises","tag-navigator-of-the-seas","tag-norwegian","tag-oasis-of-the-seas","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-travel-writers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692","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=22692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}