{"id":26845,"date":"2016-01-29T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26845"},"modified":"2016-01-29T01:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T09:00:21","slug":"friday-128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26845","title":{"rendered":"Friday File: Favorite Cruise Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve often been asked: \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite cruise ship?\u201d It\u2019s a question often asked of anybody who cruises a lot by people who cruise a little, or less. Our answer, one we borrowed from the late John Maxtone-Graham, is always the same: \u201cThe one we\u2019re on.\u201d That\u2019s pretty much how we feel. When you love cruising, you rarely go on a cruise that you don\u2019t enjoy. At the risk of sounding like Pollyannas, to us cruises are just varying degrees of good. Having said that, over the last six years, these are the six cruise ships we enjoyed the most, for a variety of reasons…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Epic\"<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Norwegian Epic<\/a>: Critics always trash it, but in two cruises we\u2019ve found the complaints mostly trivial.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Allure\"<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Allure of the Seas<\/a>: It\u2019s hard to believe anybody who is objective could find fault with this ship-that-has-it-all.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Coral\"<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Coral Princess<\/a>: In our world, she\u2019s the queen of Alaska, with a feel we call \u201ccomfortable in every way.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Diadema\"<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Costa Diadema<\/a>: When you like all things Italian, as we do, you like the flagship of Italy\u2019s main cruise line.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/b>\"Eclipse\"<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Celebrity Eclipse<\/a>: When you spend six days at sea, you either love or hate a ship \u2014 we loved the Eclipse.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/b><\/i><\/b>\"Sun\"<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Norwegian Sun<\/a>: This has everything to do with our longest cruise, 19 days, on a ship that became \u201chome.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Carrie Underwood joins Carnival Live!\u00a0 <\/span>in November to raise funds for vets
\n\u2022 Upcoming SS United States Conservancy announcement to save the ship
\n<\/span>\u2022 Fog in Tampa once again causes chaos for Carnival Paradise, AidaVita<\/p>\n

<\/u>Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0What’s next for<\/span><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Princess Cruises<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nCarnival Fantasy
\n<\/a>4 nights
\nApril 25, 2016
\nMiami<\/a> (return): Key West<\/a>, Cozumel
\n<\/a>Inside: $239
\nCost per day: $59<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve often been asked: \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite cruise ship?\u201d It\u2019s a question often asked of anybody who cruises a lot by people who cruise a little, or less. Our answer, one we borrowed from the late John Maxtone-Graham, is always the same: \u201cThe one we\u2019re on.\u201d That\u2019s pretty much how we feel. When you love… Continue reading Friday File: Favorite Cruise Ships<\/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":[16,32,1893,36,19],"tags":[203,137,154,200,138,451,343,57,1213,912,72,819,86,35,29,126,367,26,27,957,33],"class_list":["post-26845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-photos","category-reviews","category-ships","tag-allure-of-the-seas","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-fantasy","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-eclipse","tag-coral-princess","tag-costa-cruise","tag-costa-diadema","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-epic","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sun","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26845","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=26845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}