{"id":24329,"date":"2015-05-27T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=24329"},"modified":"2015-05-27T01:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T08:00:44","slug":"wednesday-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=24329","title":{"rendered":"Allure of the Seas\u2026More Alluring?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we heard that Allure of the Seas<\/a> was going in to be refurbished, our initial reaction was: What could be better?<\/p>\n

It is a rite of passage that cruise ships are refurbished every five years or so, even when they’re the biggest and arguably best of all mainstream ships. Until Harmony of the Seas<\/a> arrives next spring, Allure will retain its big-ship status by about 100 passengers and by about 1,700 tons. It’s a title that has been Allure’s (on a technicality over Oasis of the Seas<\/a>) since it arrived late in 2010.<\/p>\n

The new and refreshed Allure is in Marseille<\/a> today, early in its first Mediterranean season of weekly round-trips from both Barcelona<\/a> and Rome<\/a>, which means passengers can embark in either place. What are Europeans enjoying that North Americans haven’t yet seen, and won’t until Allure returns in November?<\/p>\n

Izumi<\/i>, a wonderful Japanese restaurant that cooked your dinner on a “hot rock” at the table, is now called Izumi Hibachi & Sushi<\/i> and is fully Japanese cuisine. No mention has \"Izumi-hot<\/a>been made if the hot rock (left) made the cut, but it was cool…proving something hot can be cool.<\/p>\n

Sabor Taquieria & Tequila Bar<\/i> is new. Hopefully, Europeans crave Mexican food as much as North Americans do.<\/p>\n

In additiuon to new and upscale shops like kate spade new york<\/em> and Michael Kors<\/em>, there are 10 new suites (two Royal, six Grande, two Royal Family) and the Coastal Kitchen<\/i> with its California-inspired cuisine is exclusively theirs. Does that mean mostly Californians book suites? The suite people also have a new lounge and new sun deck, so a part of the ship has clearly become more exclusive.<\/p>\n

Funny…we thought it was already exclusive, just by being Allure of the Seas.<\/p>\n

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

• Major cruise lines assessing need to hire lifeguards on ships
\n\t• Australia cracks 'magic million' cruise passengers for first time<\/span>
\n\t• Norwegian changes policy on passengers' taking food to rooms<\/span><\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Cunard's three Queens 'dance' on the Mersey<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Royal Caribbean Splendour of the Seas<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tNovember 14, 2015
\n\tVenice<\/a> (return): Kotor<\/a>, Corfu<\/a>, Athens<\/a>, Crete<\/a>, Argostoli<\/a>
\n\tInside: $588
\n\tCost per day: $84<\/strong>
\n\twww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we heard that Allure of the Seas was going in to be refurbished, our initial reaction was: What could be better? It is a rite of passage that cruise ships are refurbished every five years or so, even when they’re the biggest and arguably best of all mainstream ships. Until Harmony of the Seas… Continue reading Allure of the Seas\u2026More Alluring?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[203,399,912,72,819,86,35,1915,122,30,53,26,27,33,520,776],"class_list":["post-24329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-allure-of-the-seas","tag-biggest-ships","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-harmony-of-the-seas","tag-mediterranean","tag-mediterranean-cruise","tag-oasis-of-the-seas","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-ship-refurbishing","tag-splendour-of-the-seas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329","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=24329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329\/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=24329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}