{"id":24259,"date":"2015-05-19T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=24259"},"modified":"2015-05-19T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T08:00:50","slug":"tuesday-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=24259","title":{"rendered":"Royal Caribbean\u2019s Zumba Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until our daughter-in-law Frances announced she was going to become an accredited Zumba instructor, this was a word that may never have crossed our lips. Zumba, not \"Zumba\"<\/a>instructor. We may have thought it was the name of a Greek restaurant or the latest battle cry used by kids as they loaded the newest war game on their Xboxes.<\/p>\n

Now we know better.<\/p>\n

Zumba<\/a> is everywhere, even on cruise ships. Next year, Royal Caribbean<\/a> will have its Zumba Cruise<\/i> on Independence of the Seas<\/a>. It’s five days of zumba-ing at sea, disembarking in Falmouth<\/a>, Jamaica, and on “Zumba Island” — formerly known as the cruise line’s private port in Labadee<\/a>, Haiti.<\/p>\n

There will be 300 Zumba-theme classes in five days. There will be 130 celebrity instructors to teach passengers how to squat, mambo, hip-hop, lunge and salsa with the best of them. \"Independence<\/a>One of the instructors will be “Beto” Perez, the Colombian creator of Zumba and one of The Three Albertos who founded the craze about 20 years ago (the others are Alberto Perlman and Alberto Aghion).<\/p>\n

If you think those numbers are high, then you should also know there are 15 million people who take Zumba classes in 185 countries at 140,000 gymnasiums, fitness centers or wherever else groups can gather to be guided through the exercise(s).<\/p>\n

The ship leaves Fort Lauderdale<\/a> on January 30, and this is likely just the beginning.<\/p>\n

What does “Zumba” mean? Whatever you want it to mean…except a Greek restaurant or a war cry on Xbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

• Million people in Liverpool for Cunard's three Queens on Monday<\/span>
\n\t• Celebrity Eclipse first Solstice Class ship with 'World Class Bar'<\/span>
\n\t• Disney to return to New York for five cruises in October 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Christening the Viking Star<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Carnival Elation<\/a>
\n\t5 nights
\n\tAugust 22, 2015
\n\tNew Orleans<\/a> (return): Cozumel<\/a>, Merida<\/a>
\n\tInside: $309
\n\tCost per day: $61<\/strong>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until our daughter-in-law Frances announced she was going to become an accredited Zumba instructor, this was a word that may never have crossed our lips. Zumba, not instructor. We may have thought it was the name of a Greek restaurant or the latest battle cry used by kids as they loaded the newest war game… Continue reading Royal Caribbean\u2019s Zumba Cruise<\/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":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[1970,137,154,948,912,72,819,35,645,930,40,26,27,33,321,1971,655],"class_list":["post-24259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-beto-perez","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-elation","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-falmouth","tag-independence-of-the-seas","tag-labadee","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-theme-cruises","tag-xbox","tag-zumba","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259","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=24259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}