{"id":7170,"date":"2011-03-02T01:50:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T09:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2011-03-02T01:50:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T09:50:15","slug":"cruise-fares-increase-norwegian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=7170","title":{"rendered":"Prices on the Rise for Norwegian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7174\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2011\/03\/cruise-fares-increase-norwegian\/gemsky-625\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7174\" title=\"Gem:Sky-625\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GemSky-625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a>The way we see it, which is not always through rose-colored glasses but is always through either bifocals or progressives, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.com\">Norwegian<\/a> is increasing fares by 10 per cent on the first of April for one of four reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1. In this era of rocketing oil prices, it&#8217;s a way of covering NCL&#8217;s inevitable increased expenses without invoking the most despised and suspicious words in cruise-ship pricing \u2014 &#8220;fuel surcharge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. The Wave Season promotion, which gives NCL customers up to four-category upgrades, is selling so well that Norwegian sees this as the perfect time to increase fares, since there is no perfect time.<\/p>\n<p>3. The deadline creates an urgency to buy before the price goes up.<\/p>\n<p>4. Well, it is April 1.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way we see it, which is not always through rose-colored glasses but is always through either bifocals or progressives, Norwegian is increasing fares by 10 per cent on the first of April for one of four reasons: 1. In this era of rocketing oil prices, it&#8217;s a way of covering NCL&#8217;s inevitable increased expenses&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=7170\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prices on the Rise for Norwegian<\/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":[16,36,15],"tags":[35,121,126,545,450,13],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-cruises","tag-fuel-surcharge","tag-norwegian","tag-price-increases","tag-price-of-oil","tag-prices","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","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=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}