{"id":5562,"date":"2010-12-28T01:13:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T09:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2010-12-28T01:13:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T09:13:14","slug":"short-cruises-norwegian-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=5562","title":{"rendered":"The Long and Short of Short Cruises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just completed a 4-day cruise on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/cruise-ship\/sky\/overview\">Norwegian Sky<\/a>, we thought it would be worth providing some insight on such &#8220;short&#8221; cruises.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5641\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/12\/short-cruises-norwegian-bahamas\/sky-350\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5641\" title=\"Sky-350\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Sky-350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a>Everybody has different reasons for squeezing a cruising experience into three or four days:<br \/>\n1. It&#8217;s an introduction for anyone professing to dislike cruising without ever having been on a cruise.<br \/>\n2. The per-day price is attractive.<br \/>\n3. You&#8217;ve got the cruise bug and there isn&#8217;t time to take a longer one.<br \/>\n4. It&#8217;s a chance to visit places you&#8217;ve never been.<\/p>\n<p>Our 4-day cruise was from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/\">Miami<\/a> to the Bahamas. Not far. Not long. Good price. Good destinations. Interesting people. Busy schedule.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s out snapshot of it. The best thing about the cruise was seeing three new ports in four days. The worst? On 4-day cruises, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.com\">Norwegian<\/a> doesn&#8217;t do its famous Chocolate Buffet\u2026and I&#8217;m a chocoholic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just completed a 4-day cruise on the Norwegian Sky, we thought it would be worth providing some insight on such &#8220;short&#8221; cruises. Everybody has different reasons for squeezing a cruising experience into three or four days: 1. It&#8217;s an introduction for anyone professing to dislike cruising without ever having been on a cruise. 2.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=5562\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Long and Short of Short Cruises<\/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":[170,440,51,35,126,375],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ports","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-bahamas","tag-chocolate-buffet","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruises","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sky","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","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=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}