{"id":26712,"date":"2016-01-15T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26712"},"modified":"2016-01-15T01:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T09:00:29","slug":"friday-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26712","title":{"rendered":"New ship No. 10 \u2014 AIDAprima"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last\u00a0in a series of new ships for 2016<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

If you think you\u2019ve read about this \u201cnew\u201d ship before, well, you have. Right here, one year ago, when the AIDAprima was to be among the class of 2015. Well, it wasn\u2019t. Originally scheduled to be launched last spring, AIDA Cruises<\/a> announced in October that the AIDAprima\u2019s delivery date will be \u201cannounced at a later date\u201d with a maiden voyage in the spring, subtly pointing the finger at the Mitsubishi shipyard where it\u2019s being built, in Nagasaki<\/a>. The first cruise for sale is the end of April. When it arrives, the AIMAprima is expected to introduce its mostly German clientele to a \u201cnew age of cruising.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Launch date:<\/b> March<\/span><\/p>\n

Capacity:<\/b> 3,300<\/span><\/p>\n

Sister ships:<\/b> Unnamed in 2016, or 2017, or\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Maiden voyage:<\/b> Yokohama<\/a> to Dubai<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Home port: <\/b>Hamburg<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Ships then in AIDA fleet:<\/b> 11<\/span><\/p>\n

Interesting:<\/b> The first ship to operate year-round from Hamburg, the AIDAprima will offer 7-day vacations\u00a0 <\/span>with \u201cguaranteed sunshine\u201d with 4 Elements <\/i>and the AIDA Beach Club.<\/i> In both, water, air, earth and fire will guarantee such a climate under an expandable membrane roof that allows UV rays in and that is \u201calmost invisible\u201d to the eye. Besides physically resembling Norwegian<\/a> ships with colourful bow designs, AIDA is also introducing more of a \u201cfreestyle\u201d concept on board, with dinner reservations not necessary and casual dress the norm. The AIDAprima, with 18 decks and 13 restaurants, will have novel balcony rooms \u2014 walk-in closets, two bathrooms and room for two loungers on the deck. Now, about that launch date\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Multimillion-dollar renovation for\u00a0Carnival Inspiration starts Monday
\n<\/span>\u2022\u00a0All new shows coming for Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas
\n<\/span>\u2022\u00a0Cunard ships partnering with the Savoy Beaufort Bar and Jack Daniel’s<\/span><\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0Cruise awards from readers of<\/span><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0USA Today\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nCelebrity Summit
\n<\/a><\/span>7 nights
\n<\/span>April 9, 2016
\n<\/span>San Juan<\/a><\/span> (return): Tortola<\/span><\/a>, Fort-de-France<\/span><\/a>, Roseau<\/span><\/a>, St. Kitts<\/span><\/a>, St. Thomas
\n<\/span><\/a><\/span>Inside: $489
\n<\/span>Cost per day: $69<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span>www.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last\u00a0in a series of new ships for 2016 If you think you\u2019ve read about this \u201cnew\u201d ship before, well, you have. Right here, one year ago, when the AIDAprima was to be among the class of 2015. Well, it wasn\u2019t. Originally scheduled to be launched last spring, AIDA Cruises announced in October that the AIDAprima\u2019s… Continue reading New ship No. 10 \u2014 AIDAprima<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[2186,687,137,138,818,912,72,819,35,58,1143,2187,126,26,27,2188],"class_list":["post-26712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-aiaprima","tag-aida-cruises","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-summit","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-dubai","tag-hamburg","tag-mitsubishi","tag-norwegian","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-yokohama","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26712","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=26712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26712\/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=26712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}