{"id":23302,"date":"2015-02-13T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=23302"},"modified":"2015-02-13T01:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T09:00:55","slug":"friday-file-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=23302","title":{"rendered":"Friday File: Memorable Crew Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

The theory is that everyone<\/em> has a story, or at least a smile, and we've found plenty of both on cruises. These are some of the memorable crew members we have encountered…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Coral\"<\/a>This kitchen worker on the Coral Princess had a whopper of a story — along with a fish big enough to be dinner for passengers on an entire deck of the ship.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Freedom-Naidu\"<\/a>His name is Naidu and did he love to dance, especially when they struck up the band (okay, CD) for the crew in the Carnival Freedom dining room on the final night.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Riviera\"<\/a>On the Oceania Riviera the queen of cooking, Kathryn Kelly, left the corporate world (she started three big companies) behind to conduct classes for chefs-to-be at sea.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Isagani-Saravan\"<\/a>Isagani Natividad and Saravan Radhakrishnan, both sommeliers on Celebrity's Millennium, were kind enough to taste a wine we'd brought from home (it's okay, they spit!). <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Explorer\"<\/a>On Explorer of the Seas, servers Tankica Gogova and Vivek Gonsalves were such a dynamic duo that we requested their section of the same dining room table every night.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Dollerage<\/a>After two weeks on the Norwegian Sun, we'd spent so much time with Dollerage Soares (left) that he suggested fellow waiter Lester Anthony join him for a "family photo"…and guess what: He was right<\/span><\/strong><\/em>!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Carnival Vista to Miami<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Carnival Fascination<\/a>
\n\t5 nights
\n\tNovember 30, 2015
\n\tJacksonville<\/a> (return): Nassau<\/a>, Freeport<\/a>
\n\tInside: $239
\n\tCost per day: $47<\/strong>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The theory is that everyone has a story, or at least a smile, and we've found plenty of both on cruises. These are some of the memorable crew members we have encountered… This kitchen worker on the Coral Princess had a whopper of a story — along with a fish big enough to be dinner… Continue reading Friday File: Memorable Crew Members<\/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":[137,154,834,965,138,78,343,912,72,1888,35,856,201,367,907,811,26,27,957,33],"class_list":["post-23302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-fascination","tag-carnival-freedom","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-millennium","tag-coral-princess","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-photos","tag-cruises","tag-explorer-of-the-seas","tag-norwegian-cruises","tag-norwegian-sun","tag-oceania-cruises","tag-oceania-riviera","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23302","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=23302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}