{"id":26354,"date":"2015-11-30T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26354"},"modified":"2015-11-30T01:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T09:00:03","slug":"monday-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26354","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Problem Of Picking A Port"},"content":{"rendered":"

With each day, and each violent activity often linked to terrorism, reasonable people who like to travel get even more reasonable. Or concerned. Or paranoid. Or even scared.<\/p>\n

Pick an adverb. The uncertainty of traveling abroad \u2014 be it in one direction to Europe or in the other to Asia \u2014 understandably may leave North Americans more likely to pick a cruise ship departing and returning to a North American port. Not that there are any guarantees that doing so will keep you from being an unsuspecting victim of terrorism.<\/p>\n

But even seasoned travelers are at least having second thoughts. Why fly internationally to get on a cruise if you can fly domestically, or better yet drive or take ground transportation to a port of departure?<\/p>\n

This is good (okay, more comforting) news for cruise lines with ships that primarily visit the Caribbean, or assorted other warm-weather spots in the Western Hemisphere. Since a Caribbean cruise still out-ranks all others, that would be most of them, yet many have shifted their investments \u2014 and some of their ships \u2014 to Asia the last couple of years, which in today\u2019s world could mean counting on a local (Asian) clientele.<\/p>\n

For North Americans, there is no shortage of options. A quick count shows that there are 21 cruise homeports in this continent: Fort Lauderdale<\/a>, Miami<\/a>, Port Canaveral<\/a>, Tampa<\/a>, Jacksonville<\/a>, New Orleans<\/a>, Galveston<\/a>, Houston<\/a>, Charleston<\/a>, Baltimore<\/a>, Norfolk<\/a>, Bayonne<\/a>, New York<\/a>, Los Angeles<\/a>, San Francisco<\/a>, Vancouver<\/a>, Anchorage<\/a>, Boston<\/a>, San Diego<\/a>, Seattle<\/a>, Montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re an avid cruiser who\u2019s reluctant to fly afar to get to a ship, pick a port.<\/p>\n

You may find many kindred spirits.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Two biggest ships (both\u00a0Royal Caribbean) in southern hemisphere meeting in\u00a0Sydney<\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>Christmas markets with Viking in Europe<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nNorwegian Getaway
\n<\/a>7 nights
\nDecember 13, 2015
\nMiami<\/a> (return): Great Stirrup Cay<\/a>, Ocho Rios<\/a>, George Town<\/a>, Cozumel
\n<\/a>Inside: $649
\nCost per day: $92<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With each day, and each violent activity often linked to terrorism, reasonable people who like to travel get even more reasonable. Or concerned. Or paranoid. Or even scared. Pick an adverb. The uncertainty of traveling abroad \u2014 be it in one direction to Europe or in the other to Asia \u2014 understandably may leave North… Continue reading The Modern Problem Of Picking A Port<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,31,15],"tags":[707,538,1760,735,137,159,912,72,819,51,35,534,393,385,933,575,2148,737,394,254,357,1126,2149,2150,126,722,26,253,27,118,256,155,746,765],"class_list":["post-26354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-stories","tag-anchorage","tag-baltimore","tag-bayonne","tag-boston","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-charleston","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruises","tag-embarkation","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-galveston","tag-homeports","tag-houston","tag-jacksonville","tag-los-angeles","tag-miami","tag-montreal","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-york","tag-norfolk","tag-north-america-cruises","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-getaway","tag-phil-reimer","tag-port-canaveral","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-san-diego","tag-san-francisco","tag-seattle","tag-tampa","tag-vancouver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354","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=26354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354\/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=26354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}