Launch date:<\/b> July 15<\/span><\/p>\n Capacity:<\/b> 2,534<\/span><\/p>\n Sister ships:<\/b> Mein Schiff 3, Mein Schiff 4<\/span><\/p>\n Maiden voyage:<\/b> Kiel, Germany return (9 days)<\/span><\/p>\n Home port: <\/b>Hamburg<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n Ships then in TUI fleet:<\/b> 5<\/span><\/p>\n Interesting: <\/b>The latest of three new-builds, Mein Schiff 5 is also significantly larger than the first two ex-Celebrity<\/a> ships. She is a carbon copy of Mein Schiff 3 and 4, which means 1,276 staterooms, 80 per cent of them with balconies and an interior design that has been described as \u201cmodern yet cozy.\u201d German is the principal language yet the ship sounds like one that would appeal to North Americans, too, with a reputable buffet, along with specialty restaurants for Japanese fare and surf and turf. Activities include acrobatics, musicals, magic and comedy shows; fitness and aerobics opportunities; and a full range of shore excursions. Best of all, beverages and gratuities are included.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/u>Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>The new Wave Season<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Sixth\u00a0in a series of new ships for 2016 Most North Americans, it\u2019s safe to assume, know little about TUI Cruises. It\u2019s a smaller cruise line, or a cruise line of smaller ships, or both. It is, however, owned by Royal Caribbean and that gives it a cache of credibility for people interesting in cruising on… Continue reading New ship No. 6 \u2014 Mein Schiff 5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[137,138,2177,188,912,72,819,86,35,848,2178,151,126,680,26,27,33,776,189],"class_list":["post-26704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-galaxy","tag-celebrity-mercury","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-mein-schiff","tag-mein-schiff-5","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-jade","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-splendour-of-the-seas","tag-tui-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26704","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=26704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26704\/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=26704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
\nNorwegian Jade
\n<\/a><\/span>7 nights
\n<\/span>February 20, 2016
\n<\/span>Houston<\/a><\/span> (return): Cozumel<\/span><\/a>, Belize<\/span><\/a>, Roatan
\n<\/span><\/a><\/span>Inside: $549
\n<\/span>Cost per day: $78<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span>www.ncl.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"