{"id":6993,"date":"2011-02-19T01:51:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T09:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=6993"},"modified":"2011-02-19T01:51:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T09:51:14","slug":"royal-wedding-princess-cunard-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=6993","title":{"rendered":"Cruising Notes on the Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>The Right Price<\/strong>………..$979<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Ship:<\/strong> Celebrity Equinox<\/a>,
\n11 nights, Fort Lauderdale<\/a> (return)
\nDepartures:<\/strong> April 11
\nPorts:<\/strong> <\/strong>Cozumel<\/a> (Mexico), Roatan<\/a> (Honduras), Puerto Limon (Costa Rica), Colon (Panama), Cartagena (Colombia), George Town (Grand Cayman<\/a>)
\n<\/strong>Bonus:<\/strong> Veranda $1,209
\n<\/strong>Contact:<\/strong> <\/a>Celebrity Cruises<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nFile this one under “What took so long?”\u2026Princess Cruise Lines<\/a> announced it will be televising the Royal Wedding<\/a> on all 22 of its ships\u2026On April 29, Prince William<\/strong> and Kate Middleton<\/strong> will be married, and that will make her a Princess\u2026So why wouldn’t it be televised on the cruise line?\u2026Princess<\/em> Cruise Line, that is\u2026The delay \u2014 Cunard<\/a> announced it would be on their ship TVs weeks ago \u2014 must have had something to do with making a deal with the BBC<\/a>, the official wedding broadcaster, which has exclusive access to \"\"<\/a>Westminster Abbey\u2026Satellite co-operation willing, that is\u2026 Princess will also have a Kate and William look-a-like contest on board\u2026William’s mother, Princess Diana<\/strong>, christened the original Royal Princess<\/a> in 1984 \u2026In this age of peaceful protests (aka Egypt), one in Southampton<\/a> caught the attention of the cruise world\u2026City council from the British port wanted to charge \u00a310 ($16) per passenger to pay for road improvements in the area, until Carnival’s<\/a> head honcho in Britain, David Dingle<\/strong>, headed a committee of interventionists\u2026They might have mentioned the problems a “head tax” created in Alaska, and they had one local politician who voiced concern pertaining to “killing the goose” but whatever they did worked\u2026In the words of blogger Captain Greybeard<\/a> John Honeywell<\/strong>, “the idea has been quietly shelved.”<\/p>\n

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\nIf there’s a more appropriate destination to have a photo workshop \u2014 and in the cruise world there are countless photo-ops \u2014 than Alaska, where would it be?\u2026Aperture Academy from California has a class for photo students also interested in spending a week sailing from Seattle<\/a> to Juneau<\/a> and back, in August\u2026Three professional award-winning photographers will be conducting classes on Holland America’s<\/a> ms Oosterdam<\/a>, which will call at Sitka, Ketchikan<\/a> and Victoria<\/a>, the obligatory non-USA port necessary to conform with the Jones Act\u2026The photo itinerary’s on AA’s website<\/a> (not that AA)\u2026And what departure port do you think sends the most big-time spenders out to sea?\u2026Carnival told a ports administration that the most money it reaps from cruisers is on ships leaving \u2014 are you ready for this? \u2014 Baltimore<\/a>!\u2026Needless to say, the city’s cruise business has been booming.<\/p>\n

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\nRiver cruising is big news in Europe these days, but has anybody noticed it’s happening in America, too\u2026American Cruise Lines<\/a>, with five ships, will soon have six\u2026Traditionally known for itineraries in the eastern half of the U.S., American last year expanded with \"\"<\/a>cruises on the Columbia and Snake Rivers in the West and, with that success, has ordered a new riverboat for arrival in 2012\u2026The Queen of the West, built in 1995 and acquired last year, is being refurbished and will take its 120-passenger loads on the two western rivers from April to November this year and next, at least\u2026The Norwegian Sun<\/a> is out of dry-dock, where it spent a dozen days being upgraded\u2026Most significant change is the addition of the Moderno Churrascaria, the Brazilian steakhouse that was introduced on NCL’s<\/a> flagship, the Epic<\/a>\u2026The Sun is currently running Caribbean itineraries and will again spend the summer in the Baltics, returning to Florida in late September…Finally, Valentine’s Day became a chance to renew wedding vows for passengers who were so inclined and who were on the Crown Princess<\/a> on Monday…The captain performed the ceremony and some of the participants wore veils and bow ties…Yes, clothes, too.<\/p>\n

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

The Right Price………..$979 Ship: Celebrity Equinox, 11 nights, Fort Lauderdale (return) Departures: April 11 Ports: Cozumel (Mexico), Roatan (Honduras), Puerto Limon (Costa Rica), Colon (Panama), Cartagena (Colombia), George Town (Grand Cayman) Bonus: Veranda $1,209 Contact: Celebrity Cruises * * * File this one under “What took so long?”\u2026Princess Cruise Lines announced it will be televising… 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":[16,32,25,31,19,15],"tags":[45,537,538,539,154,126,367,64,540,463],"class_list":["post-6993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-alaska","tag-american-cruise-lines","tag-baltimore","tag-captain-greybeard","tag-carnival","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sun","tag-princess-cruise","tag-royal-wedding","tag-southampton","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993","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=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}