{"id":25937,"date":"2015-10-29T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=25937"},"modified":"2015-10-29T01:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T08:00:59","slug":"thursday-148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=25937","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Ships Join China Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miracle\"<\/a>There was a time, not that long ago, that the only places you could take Carnival<\/a> ships was from a port city in North America. The one caveat was when the world’s biggest cruise line built a new ship in Europe, and it had to get to North America by crossing the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

Then Carnival started dabbling in the Mediterranean. Then in Australia, going so far as to establish a base there. Now, Carnival’s going to China.<\/p>\n

There is no choice. Everybody else is, too.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the Carnival Miracle<\/a> (above) will be in China year-round. A year later, the Carnival Splendour<\/a> (below) will be in China year-round. Cruise ships from Carnival Corporation<\/i> have been visiting Asian ports for a decade, but not year-round. And the \"Splendor\"<\/a>mother line wasn’t there at all. Other cruise lines have gradually been gaining a presence, but nobody really started taking the Chinese market this seriously until Royal Caribbean<\/a> sent its newest ship — Quantum of the Seas<\/a> — to establish a home port in Shanghai. <\/p>\n

If that didn’t get the cruise executives’ attention, it surely woke up the media.<\/p>\n

Maybe it wasn’t that big a deal to Royal Caribbean, which has since launched Anthem of the Seas<\/a> and has another Quantum Class<\/i> ship coming next year, Ovation of the Seas<\/a>. But this was the flagship of the class and its first cruise season was from New York (Cape Liberty<\/a>), not exactly a secondary market. As it turned out, that was its ONLY season of sailing from New York<\/a> to the Caribbean. Almost exactly one year after it arrived, Quantum was gone.<\/p>\n

For good.<\/p>\n

Since then, the other mainstream cruise lines have been despatching ships to Asian waters. It will likely never rival the Caribbean as a cruise destination, but it’s definitely a player. And in 18 months, the team of ships stationed there will include Carnival.<\/p>\n

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

• The Salty Dog Gastropub makes its debut on Crown Princess
\n\t• Costa signs three-year partnership agreement with Italian airline Neo<\/p>\n

Today at <\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>: <\/span><\/strong><\/em>Cunard planning them cruises for 2016<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tCarnival Imagination<\/a>
\n\t3 nights
\n\tJanuary 14, 2016
\n\tLos Angeles<\/a> (return): Ensenada<\/a>
\n\tInside: $169
\n\tCost per day: $56<\/span><\/b>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a time, not that long ago, that the only places you could take Carnival ships was from a port city in North America. The one caveat was when the world’s biggest cruise line built a new ship in Europe, and it had to get to North America by crossing the Atlantic. Then Carnival… Continue reading Carnival Ships Join China Surge<\/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":[16,32,31,19,15],"tags":[1542,154,681,700,478,252,251,912,72,819,86,35,1730,1037,26,27,1186,33,1179],"class_list":["post-25937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-anthem-of-the-seas","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-imagination","tag-carnival-miracle","tag-carnival-splendor","tag-china","tag-china-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-ovation-of-the-seas","tag-pacific-coast-cruises","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-quantum-of-the-seas","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-spas-on-cruise-ships","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25937","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=25937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}