{"id":6361,"date":"2011-01-22T01:56:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T09:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2011-01-22T01:56:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T09:56:34","slug":"river-cruises-scenic-tours-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=6361","title":{"rendered":"Cruising Notes on the Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The right price\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026………………………………….\u2026\u2026$1,545
\nMay 23, August 29, September 5 or 12, 2011: <\/strong>8 days
\nShip:<\/strong> A Scenic Tours<\/a> river ship
\nDeparture:<\/strong> Budapest<\/a> to Nuremberg<\/a> (or the reverse)
\nBonus:<\/strong> Price is per person but is a 2-for-1; all shore excursions and all gratuities included
\nContact:<\/strong> WOW Travel Deals<\/a><\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Just in case you didn’t think there was a theme cruise for everyone, how’s this for a tripleheader?<\/p>\n

If you love good (bias showing here) music from the past, there’s a Beatles Tribute cruise<\/a> on Royal Caribbean’s<\/a> Liberty of the Seas (March 5).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re into right-wing politics, there’s a Mike Huckabee<\/a> cruise on the Sapphire Princess<\/a> (June 5).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And if you’re a Brady Bunch buff, Florence Henderson<\/a> herself will take two of her TV kids on a Ballroom Dance Celebration at Sea, aboard the Celebrity Eclipse<\/a> (January 2012).<\/p>\n

Since there are more Beatlemanias than Huckabeers or Hendersonites, the Liberty of the Seas<\/a> cruise warrants more enlightenment. Among the \"\"<\/a>invited guests who will entertain the fans are a member of Paul McCartney’s band Wings (Laurence Juber<\/a>), a tribute band called Yesterday<\/a>, a true Beatles artist named Shannon<\/a> (she also paints them) and a man of whom McCartney once said: “If you want to know anything about the Beatles, ask Tony Bramwell<\/a> [right]. He remembers more than I do.”<\/p>\n

You can say these are all people making a living off the Beatles, or you can say they’re sharing their particular insight of the world’s greatest band, for a price. We prefer the latter.
\n* * *<\/p>\n

There was to be a fourth theme cruise in this blog today, because there was a Wizards At Sea cruise featuring everything Harry Potter, on Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas in August. If you click on the promoter’s website<\/a>, you’ll notice the cruise was canceled for “reasons beyond our control” and that this is an unofficial gathering of Harry Potter fans, also that no copyright nor trademark infringement is intended.<\/p>\n

Should that be “was” intended?
\n* * *<\/p>\n

Guess we’ll have to wait until one Monday night in February to find out which cruise ship is going to show up in Hawaii Five-O<\/a>, the hugely popular new\/old show on CBS<\/a>, because nobody’s saying…yet.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Actor Nick Lachey and his fiancee, Vanessa Minnillo<\/a>, have been cast to play an engaged couple on the show. Apparently she \u2014 yes, SHE \u2014 is working as a deckhand on a cruise ship that’s taken hostage by pirates.<\/p>\n

Out of real life come new ideas for TV scripts. You don’t think they filmed it off Somalia, do you?
\n* * *<\/p>\n

This one is probably a sign of things to come. Royal Caribbean’s frequent cruiser program \u2014 Crown & Anchor Society \u2014 has been changed, from cruise credits to cruise points. Passengers now get one point for every night spent on a Royal Caribbean ship and instead of four status levels, there are now six: Gold, Platinum, Emerald, Diamond, Diamond Plus and Pinnacle Club. The two new ones are Emerald and the highest level, Pinnacle Club.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The current status of all C&A members will be grandfathered \u2014 no change despite the new qualifying levels.<\/p>\n

Will it be long before all cruise lines create a more sophisticated loyalty program like this one, which gives the line more flexibility with rewards and which means somebody taking a 14-day cruise receives more credit than somebody on a 5-day cruise, as it should be.
\n* * *<\/p>\n

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

The right price\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026………………………………….\u2026\u2026$1,545 May 23, August 29, September 5 or 12, 2011: 8 days Ship: A Scenic Tours river ship Departure: Budapest to Nuremberg (or the reverse) Bonus: Price is per person but is a 2-for-1; all shore excursions and all gratuities included Contact: WOW Travel Deals * * * Just in case you didn’t… Continue reading Cruising Notes on 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":[488,418,138,489,490,64,42,33,65,491,321,492],"class_list":["post-6361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-beatles","tag-cbs","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-harry-potter","tag-hawaii-five-o","tag-princess-cruise","tag-river-cruises","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-sapphire-princess","tag-scenic-tours","tag-theme-cruises","tag-wow-travel-deals","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361","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=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}