{"id":26237,"date":"2015-11-24T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26237"},"modified":"2015-11-24T01:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T09:00:27","slug":"tuesday-148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26237","title":{"rendered":"Majestic Princess\u2026majestic port stays"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was an announcement from Santa Clarita, California yesterday and when cruise announcements come from this pretty city north of Los Angeles, that almost certainly means Princess Cruises<\/a> has something to say.<\/p>\n

What Princess had to say yesterday was that people who want to cruise on its new ship, the Majestic Princess, can now start to make plans. That the cruise line\u2019s first ship in three years, since the Regal Princess<\/a>, will spend its first (2017) summer in Europe, which is always a nice place to spend your summer. That passengers will be able to choose from 64 itineraries, 153 departures, 27 countries and Mediterranean cruises from five to 28 days. And that bookings can be made next Thursday, December 3.<\/p>\n

Good stuff.<\/p>\n

But the most interesting part of the announcement, at least in our corner of the cruise \"Majestic<\/a>world, was that Princess ships \u2014 or at least this one \u2014 will be staying longer in ports. Overnights, even.<\/p>\n

This is one of the growing trends for ocean ships, picking up on what river ships have long been doing\u2026and, yes, that is a different game for many reasons. Over the past couple of years, cruise lines have started to schedule more late-night departures and some overnight stays because\u2026surprise, surprise\u2026the passengers like them.<\/p>\n

How many times have you been in an interesting city and felt that your visit was being cut short because last call for the ship was four o\u2019clock in the afternoon, which meant you probably had to start heading there at three? How many times have you wished you could have dinner and not lunch at one of the local restaurants, perhaps recommended by a local? How many times have you thought it would be nice to stay for a theatrical performance or a sports event that started after you were back at sea?<\/p>\n

Princess is getting more into the game.<\/p>\n

The Majestic Princess (or its seaworthy siblings) will, in a program called More Ashore<\/i>, offer passengers a chance to stay in 15 European countries until 9 p.m. or later\u2026defeating the theory that the only people on cruise ships are old, tired and in bed by dark. It will also be staying overnight in places such as Dublin<\/a>, Stockholm<\/a> and St. Petersburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So this was not only news from Santa Clarita yesterday\u2026it was good<\/i> news.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Record year of cruising expected for New South Wales
\n\u2022\u00a0Cunard’s ‘The Ultimate Upgrade’ available until November 30
\n\u2022\u00a0Ponant’s evacuated Le Boreal being towed to shore after fire<\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>Crystal Cruises more up in the air<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Celebrity Summit
\n<\/a>7 nights
\nJan 9, 2016
\nSan Juan<\/a> (return): Barbados<\/a>, St. Lucia<\/a>, Antigua<\/a>, St. Maarten<\/a>, St. Thomas
\n<\/a>Inside: $549
\nCost per day: $78<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was an announcement from Santa Clarita, California yesterday and when cruise announcements come from this pretty city north of Los Angeles, that almost certainly means Princess Cruises has something to say. What Princess had to say yesterday was that people who want to cruise on its new ship, the Majestic Princess, can now start… Continue reading Majestic Princess\u2026majestic port stays<\/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":[16,32,31,36,19,15],"tags":[137,138,818,912,72,819,51,86,35,2145,151,1974,26,27,957,1147],"class_list":["post-26237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-summit","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-majestic-princess","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-overnights","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-regal-princess","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26237","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=26237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}