{"id":314,"date":"2010-02-15T17:42:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.baremetal.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-02-15T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:42:37","slug":"bigger-can-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Bigger CAN Be Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The biggest cruise ship in the world is a winner. That\u2019s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/home.do\">Royal Caribbean<\/a> is telling everyone about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ships\/class\/ship\/home.do;jsessionid=0000i36-AkKlOrFenAXc0oFdIGX:13hldio7n?br=R&amp;shipClassCode=OA&amp;shipCode=OA\">Oasis of the Seas<\/a>, the ship that was six years in the building and now Royal\u2019s flagship.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/RC-Oasis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324\" title=\"RC-Oasis\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/RC-Oasis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a>Oasis was launched in December, in Fort Lauderdale, after a 12-day ocean voyage from its birthplace, Finland. It continues to operate from Fort Lauderdale in its maiden season of cruising the Caribbean.<br \/>\nUnless you\u2019re a big-ship person \u2013 and we happen to be two people who like cruise ships of all shapes and sizes \u2013 you may find the success of the Oasis of the Seas interesting only because it can impact on your cruise budget.<br \/>\nLook at it this way: The more big ships there are, the more heads are needed to fill those beds at sea. That means big ships, while you may find them a little pricier, actually help control the cost of cruising for everybody.<br \/>\nIf you buy into that theory, the news that Royal plans a period of consolidation after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ships\/class\/ship\/home.do;jsessionid=0000i36-AkKlOrFenAXc0oFdIGX:13hldio7n?br=R&amp;shipClassCode=OA&amp;shipCode=AL\">Allure<\/a>, sister ship to the Oasis, hits the water next December could be interpreted as sad news. On the other hand, how long is \u201ca period\u201d of consolidation?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s it, we&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest cruise ship in the world is a winner. That\u2019s what Royal Caribbean is telling everyone about the Oasis of the Seas, the ship that was six years in the building and now Royal\u2019s flagship. Oasis was launched in December, in Fort Lauderdale, after a 12-day ocean voyage from its birthplace, Finland. It continues&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=314\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bigger CAN Be Better<\/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":[32,15],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-stories","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}