{"id":811,"date":"2010-05-03T01:55:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T08:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2010-05-03T01:55:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T08:55:46","slug":"smooth-sailing-in-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Smooth Sailing in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-814\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/05\/smooth-sailing-in-san-diego\/100_5338\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-814\" title=\"100_5338\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_5338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>On our most recent cruise, one of the ports new to us was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/\">San Diego<\/a>. Not the city, the port. We&#8217;ve spent a lot of time in the city, but coming at it from the water was new, enlightening and a little chaotic.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, we disembarked at the port in New Orleans, to be finger-printed (no choice) and be fast-tracked in slow lines only because we hired a luggage porter. Before that, landing at San Pedro (Los Angeles), it was like Disneyland\u2026huge lines through the ropes before even getting off the ship.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego was easy. We should mention that all three ships we&#8217;re talking about here were about the same size: 2,000 or so passengers. We left our stateroom to clear customs at about 7:50. We were back in the room by 8:03. Our assigned time to disembark was 10:30, but everything was going so quickly that they called for all remaining passengers to disembark about 20 minutes before that, and there was minimal delay in locating luggage.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-817\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/05\/smooth-sailing-in-san-diego\/100_4678-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-817\" title=\"100_4678\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_46781.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a>Is it a credit to the cruise line, in this case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritycruises.com\/home.do\">Celebrity<\/a>? Is it the customs and immigration people? The port? Who knows? All we know is it was flawless.<\/p>\n<p>And then the fun began.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cms\/fun\/ships\/carnival_elation\/default.aspx?shipCode=EL\">Carnival Elation<\/a> was unloading its 2,000 or so passengers about the same time, so you had 4,000 people trying to get off the pier in a 90-minute window. <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-818\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/05\/smooth-sailing-in-san-diego\/100_5320\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-818\" title=\"100_5320\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_5320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>Lines for taxis were long. Inside the terminal, bus tickets for the airport were $10. Outside the terminal, shuttle tickets to the airport were $5. Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topuertorico.org\/city\/sanjuan.shtml\">San Juan<\/a> (Puerto Rico), where our cruise began, there was no per-bag handling charge.<\/p>\n<p>From the ship, we could see planes landing at San Diego International. Getting there meant two right turns and a U-turn in congested traffic before turning left, the direction of the airport. With aircraft carriers and the pretty San Diego waterfront for scenery, the trip&#8217;s worth more than five bucks and a tip.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it\u2026we&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our most recent cruise, one of the ports new to us was San Diego. Not the city, the port. We&#8217;ve spent a lot of time in the city, but coming at it from the water was new, enlightening and a little chaotic. Last year, we disembarked at the port in New Orleans, to be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=811\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smooth Sailing in San Diego<\/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":[31,15],"tags":[117,71,35,2208,118],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ports","category-stories","tag-airport-shuttles","tag-celebrity","tag-cruises","tag-ports","tag-san-diego","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}