{"id":22923,"date":"2015-01-05T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=22923"},"modified":"2015-01-05T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T09:00:17","slug":"monday-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22923","title":{"rendered":"New in 2015 \u2014  P&amp;O Britannia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>First in a series about ships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><i>The first new ship of 2015 will set sail in March and be based in Southampton before leaving for its winter home, <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitbarbados.org\/\"><i>Barbados<\/i><\/a><i>. P&amp;O is billing this as a five-star ship with all the amenities of a like-rated hotel, but on water. The locals won&rsquo;t have trouble recognizing her because she&rsquo;ll be the biggest ship ever built for that market.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Launch date:<\/b> March 28<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Capacity:<\/b> 3,647<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Sister ships:<\/b> None<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Maiden voyage:<\/b> 14-day Mediterranean cruise<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Home port:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enjoyengland.com\/destinations\/find\/south-east\/hampshire\/southampton.aspx\">Southampton<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Ships then in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocruises.com\/\">P&amp;O<\/a> fleet:<\/b> 8<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Interesting:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocruises.com\/cruise-ships\/britannia\/overview\/\">Britannia<\/a> is 25,000 tons bigger than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocruises.com\/Cruise-Ships\/Azura\/Ship-Overview\/\">Azura<\/a>, currently P&amp;O&rsquo;s biggest ship. Its features include 75 per cent of its cabins with balconies (or verandas) and 27 single cabins, many also with balconies. It also has the biggest spa in the fleet&hellip;maybe that&rsquo;s why its name is the &ldquo;Oasis&rdquo; Spa. There are 13 places to dine, including one where you can make it yourself, The Cookery Club, a kitchen classroom where the teachers are renowned enough that P&amp;O sells it as discovering &ldquo;Foodie Heaven.&rdquo; A sign of the changing demographic is an Indian restaurant with a Michelin-starred chef<b><i>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em style=\"font-size: 13px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Today at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsandbows.com\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><em style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Dynamic Dining delay<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12028\" height=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" title=\"DailyDeal-2\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/learn\/ships\/ap\/index.html\" style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">Grand Princess<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">7 nights<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">January 17, 2015<\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.losangeles.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">Los Angeles<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;(return):&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitpuertovallarta.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">Puerto Vallarta<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.go2mazatlan.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">Mazatlan<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabosanlucas.net\/\" style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">Cabo San Lucas<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">Oceanview: $619<\/span><br \/>\n\t<strong style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Cost per day: $88<\/strong><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\">www.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First in a series about ships The first new ship of 2015 will set sail in March and be based in Southampton before leaving for its winter home, Barbados. P&amp;O is billing this as a five-star ship with all the amenities of a like-rated hotel, but on water. The locals won&rsquo;t have trouble recognizing her&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22923\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New in 2015 \u2014  P&amp;O Britannia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[1575,912,72,819,86,35,703,611,30,542,102,151,1848,778,26,27,957],"class_list":["post-22923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-britannia","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-grand-princess","tag-inaugural-cruises","tag-mediterranean-cruise","tag-mexican-riviera","tag-mexico","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-po-azura","tag-po-cruises","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923","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=22923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923\/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=22923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}