{"id":23070,"date":"2015-01-20T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=23070"},"modified":"2015-01-20T01:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T09:00:27","slug":"tuesday-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=23070","title":{"rendered":"Deal Too Good, Too Late To Be True"},"content":{"rendered":"

Normally, we let our “Daily Deal” deliver some value cruises for you to consider but once in a while there’s something extraordinary that deserves an even better treatment…A couple \"Allure\"<\/a>of days ago we had one — you do notice that’s past tense, right?…It was a Transatlantic trip on Allure of the Seas<\/a>, the (starting) price was $659 with 50 per cent off for the second guest, plus up to $200 for an on-board credit…For 12 days, it worked out to less than $50 a day on one of the two biggest cruise ships in the world, as long as bookings were made by January 31…Well, guess what?…Today is January 20, and it’s no longer available…Obviously, eagle-eyed consumers snapped up the rooms but it does leave you wondering how many Royal Caribbean<\/a> made available in the promotion.<\/p>\n

Now here’s a clever idea: When the AIDAsol<\/a> arrived in Vietnam this week, immigration \"AIDAsol\"<\/a>officials boarded the ship at Buoy 1, three hours before docking at Tan Cang-Cai Mep, to process the 2,176 passengers, most of them German…By the time the AIDA<\/a> ship reached the port, the process was finished and passengers were able to disembark right away…On their most recent health inspections, in Fort Lauderdale<\/a>, two Holland America<\/a> ships — the Noordam<\/a> and the Zuiderdam<\/a> — were perfect (100) in scores by the Centers for Disease Control<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The line-up for the Olympics<\/a> has begun…The Norwegian<\/a> Getaway is first in the line-up of cruise ships for Rio de Janeiro<\/a>, where the Summer Games will be staged in 2016…The Getaway<\/a> will be impersonating a hotel from August 5-21 next year, just like its smaller \"Getaway\"<\/a>sibling, the Jade<\/a>, did at the 2012 Winter Games in Sochi<\/a>, Russia…With a capacity close to 4,000, the Getaway will help take some of the stress off Rio’s hotels, at the same time providing its “passengers” with luxurious accommodation and presumably earning a few “reals” — you didn’t know that’s what Brazilian currency was called, did you? — for the cruise line…The Getaway has experience at this, having served as a floating hotel at last year’s Super Bowl in New York<\/a>…It doesn’t hurt that Getaway’s ambiance and treatment are decidedly Spanish.<\/p>\n

\"Super<\/a>File this one in the “When Will It End?” drawer…In a major Canadian newspaper (Toronto Star) there was a story about Carnival’s advertising on TV during the Super Bowl<\/a> next week, and the second paragraph read: “Carnival, of course, is the line whose ship, Triumph<\/a>, became a PR disaster in early 2013, when it got stuck at sea for almost a week due to an engine fire”…Seriously?…That was two years ago and, after all the things Carnival<\/a> has done to restore its public stature, the cruise line hardly needed a Super Bowl ad to make image amends.<\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Carnival's latest technology<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Carnival Triumph<\/a>
\n\t10 nights
\n\tFebruary 20, 2015
\n\tSan Juan<\/a>, St. Thomas<\/a>, St. Maarten<\/a>, Antigua<\/a>, St. Kitts<\/a>, St. Croix<\/a>, Falmouth<\/a>, Galveston<\/a>
\n\tInside: $549
\n\tCost per day: $54<\/strong>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally, we let our “Daily Deal” deliver some value cruises for you to consider but once in a while there’s something extraordinary that deserves an even better treatment…A couple of days ago we had one — you do notice that’s past tense, right?…It was a Transatlantic trip on Allure of the Seas, the (starting) price… Continue reading Deal Too Good, Too Late To Be True<\/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":[16,32,25,31,19,15],"tags":[687,1861,203,137,154,647,661,912,72,35,23,163,835,1126,201,722,680,901,26,27,33,506,1862],"class_list":["post-23070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-aida-cruises","tag-aidasol","tag-allure-of-the-seas","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-triumph","tag-center-for-disease-control","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-holland-america","tag-holland-america-noordam","tag-holland-america-zuiderdam","tag-new-york","tag-norwegian-cruises","tag-norwegian-getaway","tag-norwegian-jade","tag-olympic-games","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-super-bowl","tag-toronto-star","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070","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=23070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}