{"id":26360,"date":"2015-12-03T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26360"},"modified":"2015-12-03T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T09:00:40","slug":"26360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26360","title":{"rendered":"Grand Princess, Grand Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, there was a small fire on the Grand Princess<\/a> as the big ship was circumventing Hawaii<\/a>. It was caused by a circuit breaker in the ships\u2019 electrical switchboard. There was some smoke. Nobody was hurt. As these things go, it was relatively minor.<\/p>\n

The Grand Princess got the worst of it. Because it was a propulsion circuit breaker, the ship lost some power. Not all, just some. The result is the ship is now on its way back to San<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Grand<\/a><\/p>\n

Francisco<\/a>, at a slower speed than normal. Other than being slowed, it\u2019s fine. No safety concerns, no manoeuvreability concerns.<\/p>\n

Passengers were marginally inconvenienced. Two ports \u2014 one on Kauai<\/a>, one on Maui<\/a> \u2014 had to be skipped. The power outage meant emergency lights had to be used, briefly. Air conditioning was temporarily limited.<\/p>\n

So what does Princess<\/a> do?<\/p>\n

This was a 15-day cruise. Passengers who wanted to leave Hawaii were flown home, at the cruise line\u2019s expense. Passengers who stayed on board\u00a0 <\/span>were given credit towards another Princess cruise, plus a full refund.<\/p>\n

Kind of makes you wish you were on the Grand Princess, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Seven months before first ship arrives, Crystal inaugural river cruises hot tickets<\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>: <\/span><\/strong><\/em>All the latest cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nCarnival Pride
\n<\/a>13 nights
\nJanuary 2, 2017
\nBaltimore<\/a>, Grand Turk<\/a>, Amber Cove<\/a>, Cartagena<\/a>, Panama Canal<\/a>, Limon<\/a>, Mahogany Bay<\/a>, Cozumel<\/a>, Tampa
\n<\/a>Oceanview: $929
\nCost per day: $71<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, there was a small fire on the Grand Princess as the big ship was circumventing Hawaii. It was caused by a circuit breaker in the ships\u2019 electrical switchboard. There was some smoke. Nobody was hurt. As these things go, it was relatively minor. The Grand Princess got the worst of it. Because… Continue reading Grand Princess, Grand Return<\/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":[137,154,1088,912,72,819,1200,86,35,703,528,316,26,27,957,256],"class_list":["post-26360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-pride","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ship-accidents","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-grand-princess","tag-hawaii","tag-itinerary-changes","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-san-francisco","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360","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=26360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}