{"id":22927,"date":"2015-01-07T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=22927"},"modified":"2015-01-07T01:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:00:35","slug":"wednesday-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22927","title":{"rendered":"New in 2015 \u2014 Anthem of the Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\" style=\"font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\"><b style=\"font-size: 12.222222328186px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;\">Third in a series about new ships<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This second ship of the Quantum Class will be replacing the first &mdash; and the flagship &mdash; in New Jersey after Quantum of the Seas leaves for its new home, <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoursingapore.com\/content\/traveller\/en\/experience.html\"><i>Singapore<\/i><\/a><i>. Other than the name on the bow and assorted other places, there isn&rsquo;t expected to be much difference between <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ships\/class\/ship\/home.do?shipClassCode=QN&amp;shipCode=AN&amp;br=R\"><i>Anthem of the Seas<\/i><\/a><i> and its sister, which tells you what a winner Quantum has been for Royal Caribbean.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Launch date:<\/b> April 22<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Capacity:<\/b> 4,905<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Sister ships:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ships\/class\/ship\/home.do?shipClassCode=com.rccl.value.catalog.ShipClassValue%401873e71&amp;shipCode=QN&amp;br=R\">Quantum of the Seas<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Maiden voyage:<\/b> An 8-day trip along Northern Spain with one stop in France<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Home port:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiseliberty.com\/\">Cape Liberty<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Ships then in <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/home.do\"><b>Royal Caribbean<\/b><\/a><b> fleet:<\/b> 23<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Interesting:<\/b> The cruise line touts Anthem&rsquo;s virtual balconies, with huge LCD TV screens, as being the first at sea but neither that&hellip;nor the bumper cars in <i>SeaPlex<\/i>&hellip;nor the <i>RipCord<\/i> sky diving simulator&hellip;nor the 27-degree views from <i>Two70<\/i>&hellip;is going to touch this ship&rsquo;s most identifying asset. That would be <i>North Star<\/i>, the arm that takes passengers out over the waves and back, all included with the price of the cruise. It is the ship&rsquo;s most recognizable feature, its signature, what makes it stand out from everything else &ldquo;at sea.&rdquo; The same, of course, can be said for its older sister<strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;\"><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><em style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; 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=\"font-size: 12.222222328186px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">All the latest cruise news<\/span><\/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.celebritycruises.com\/plancruise\/ships\/ship.do;jsessionid=000045nzVqfOZFsHNOCgebwkDjt:12hdebebp?shipCode=CN\">Celebrity Century<\/a><br \/>\n\t14 nights<br \/>\n\tMarch 22, 2015<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoursingapore.com\/content\/traveller\/en\/experience.html\">Singapore<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cochin.org\/\">Cochin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mangalore.com\/\">Mangalore<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goacom.com\/\">Goa<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumbainet.com\/template1.php?CID=15\">Mumbai<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omantourism.gov.om\/wps\/portal\/mot\/tourism\/oman\/home\/sultanate\/regions\/muscat\/!ut\/p\/a0\/04_Sj9CPykssy0xPLMnMz0vMAfGjzOL9gwKD3fxcTQwMvN0NDTyN3F0DDA2DDU1DDfULsh0VAbDqbnw!\/\">Muscat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubaitourism.ae\/\">Dubai<\/a><br \/>\n\tInside: $949<br \/>\n\t<strong style=\"font-size: 12.222222328186px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Cost per day: $67<\/strong><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritycruises.com\">www.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third in a series about new ships This second ship of the Quantum Class will be replacing the first &mdash; and the flagship &mdash; in New Jersey after Quantum of the Seas leaves for its new home, Singapore. Other than the name on the bow and assorted other places, there isn&rsquo;t expected to be much&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22927\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New in 2015 \u2014 Anthem of the Seas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[1542,1101,607,138,912,72,819,86,35,611,151,26,27,1186,33],"class_list":["post-22927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-anthem-of-the-seas","tag-asia-cruises","tag-celebrity-century","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-inaugural-cruises","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-quantum-of-the-seas","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22927","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=22927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22927\/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=22927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}