{"id":495,"date":"2010-04-23T02:08:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T09:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=494"},"modified":"2010-04-23T02:08:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T09:08:24","slug":"when-cruise-ships-change-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"When Cruise Ships Change Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

PUNTARENAS, Costa Rica \u2014 You know how they’re always telling you on cruise ships that you better sign up for a shore excursion with the cruise line because the ship will never leave without you.
\n\"\"<\/a>Let us share a little story with you.\u00a0The last time we were in this beautiful country of 4.5 million friendly people and maybe even a few unfriendly ones (actually it was the only time but “last time” makes us sound like we do this more than we do), our cruise-line shore excursion was about a half-hour late leaving the port because there was some kind of labor dispute.
\nIt was a three-stage tour that we call trains, planes and automobiles after the John Candy movie, even though it was actually train, boat and bus.<\/p>\n

Somewhere on the fascinating Tarcoles River, among the birds, crocodiles and mangrove trees, we lost a little more time.
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\nWhen the bus pulled up to the dock, it was 45 minutes after the ship’s scheduled departure. The ship was still there. Had we taken a non-cruise line shore excursion and been that late, we’d have had to find a flight from there to Manta, Ecuador, the next stop.<\/p>\n

Right, nothing to it!<\/p>\n

That’s it\u2026we’re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PUNTARENAS, Costa Rica \u2014 You know how they’re always telling you on cruise ships that you better sign up for a shore excursion with the cruise line because the ship will never leave without you. Let us share a little story with you.\u00a0The last time we were in this beautiful country of 4.5 million friendly… Continue reading When Cruise Ships Change Plans<\/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":[31,36,19,15],"tags":[89,90,86,91,92,93,94],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ports","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-costa-rica","tag-crocodiles","tag-cruise-ships","tag-puntarenas","tag-rain-forest-aerial-trams","tag-shore-excursions","tag-tarcoles-river","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}