{"id":5083,"date":"2010-12-04T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2010-12-04T01:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T09:00:59","slug":"cruising-costa-atlantica-norwegian-undercover-boss-cbs-oprah-winfrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=5083","title":{"rendered":"Cruising Notes from the Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The right price\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026…..$349
\nJanuary 14, 2011:<\/strong> 7 nights\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
\nShip:<\/strong> Costa Atlantica<\/a>
\nDeparture:<\/strong> Miami<\/a> return
\nBonus:<\/strong> Balconies just $549, Suite for $999
\nContact:<\/strong> iCruise.com<\/a> or 1-800-427-8473
\n* * *
\nIn the latest issue of her monthly magazine, O, TV super star Oprah Winfrey<\/a> named her favorite things, and one of them \u2014 first identified on her show \u2014 is Allure of the Seas<\/a>. Tomorrow, it’s expected a full load of 6,000 or so passengers will feel the same way on the Royal Caribbean<\/a> mega ship’s inaugural voyage.<\/p>\n

Seven members from Oprah’s TV audience were given a 7-day cruise for two on \"\"<\/a>the Allure. Tomorrow’s trip leaves Fort Lauderdale<\/a> at 5 p.m. (EDT) and makes three stops \u2014 Labadee (Royal’s private island in Haiti), Costa Maya<\/a> and Cozumel<\/a> in Mexico. When it goes west, Oasis of the Seas<\/a> goes east. The ships alternate this itineraries every week, always from Fort Lauderdale on Saturday (Oasis) and Sunday (Allure).<\/p>\n

That means today is the last time the two will be in port together. Their combined presence is already having an impact on what other lines do, initially at least in the summer, a slower time for Caribbean cruises. Norwegian sends its Epic to Europe for the summer, and joins Princess<\/a>, Celebrity<\/a> and Holland America<\/a> as lines with no ships anywhere in Florida next summer.
\n* * *<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>It was probably just a matter of time until cruising became a subject for Undercover Boss<\/a>, the popular CBS reality show that sends an executive to work undercover in his or her company to find out what life at the bottom is really like. The cruise executive was Kevin Sheehan, the No. 1 guy at Norwegian Cruise Lines<\/a>, and the show is due “in the next few weeks.”<\/p>\n

Sheehan went undercover on two NCL ships, the Epic<\/a> and the Pride of America<\/a>, which sails around the Hawaiian Islands. Without giving anything away prior to the show’s airing, Sheehan simply says: “It was an eye-opening experience.”<\/p>\n

Undercover Boss airs at 9 p.m. on Sundays.
\n* * *
\nStrangest thing we saw during our 4-hour visit on the Allure in Fort Lauderdale, between its two-day promotional cruises: a woman walking into a bar in her bathrobe.
\n* * *
\nSome of the nicest people you meet work on cruise ships, and it’s not always because they’re taught to smile and say hello to the customers. When you hear what a group of Carnival<\/a> employees did, you’ll know what we mean…<\/p>\n

After Hurricane Tomas ripped through St. Lucia last month, there was a need for emergency supplies. A group of employees from the Carnival Miracle<\/a> \u2014 which stops in St. Lucia \u2014 delivered clothing, mattresses and other much-needed items on behalf of the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association, a not-for-profit trade organization composed of 15 member cruise lines.
\n* * *
\nThat’s it, we’re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The right price\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026…..$349 January 14, 2011: 7 nights\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Ship: Costa Atlantica Departure: Miami return Bonus: Balconies just $549, Suite for $999 Contact: iCruise.com or 1-800-427-8473 * * * In the latest issue of her monthly magazine, O, TV super star Oprah Winfrey named her favorite things, and one of them \u2014 first identified on… Continue reading Cruising Notes from the Boats<\/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":[32,25,19,15],"tags":[203,417,154,418,57,29,126,419,420,421],"class_list":["post-5083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-allure-of-the-seas","tag-atlantica","tag-carnival","tag-cbs","tag-costa-cruise","tag-epic","tag-norwegian","tag-oprah","tag-pride-of-america","tag-undercover-boss","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083","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=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}