{"id":8476,"date":"2011-06-15T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2011-06-15T01:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T08:00:31","slug":"a-little-privacy-a-lot-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8476","title":{"rendered":"A Little Privacy, a Lot of $$$"},"content":{"rendered":"

What price privacy? Lots of people go on cruises because they like the social atmosphere. New friends and new adventures. Lots of people like the idea of dining in a group. A chance for everyone to taste everybody else’s main course, perhaps.<\/p>\n

Not us.<\/p>\n

So when Crystal Cruises<\/a> announced the opportunity for its passengers to arrange private \"\"<\/a>shore excursions, four ears perked up. Private means either two people, or four, or six. Naturally, it costs more.<\/p>\n

Not that we’re anti-social…well, not completely. We’ve just never been big on groups. Maybe it’s the image of following a leader carrying a little red flag. So we pick our spots.<\/p>\n

Crystal and its two ships, the Serenity<\/a> and the Symphony<\/a>, sounds like a good spot to pick. Once we get our heads around the fact that Crystal is a luxury cruise line, that even with 2-for-1 offers (Europe) that include “free air” you’re probably looking at between $300 and $1,000 or more per day per person, depending on when and where you go.<\/p>\n

That’s all before you book that private shore excursion, of course, which are marked up by at least 25%.<\/p>\n

Privacy can be pricy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What price privacy? Lots of people go on cruises because they like the social atmosphere. New friends and new adventures. Lots of people like the idea of dining in a group. A chance for everyone to taste everybody else’s main course, perhaps. Not us. So when Crystal Cruises announced the opportunity for its passengers to… Continue reading A Little Privacy, a Lot of $$$<\/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":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[72,86,35,227,93],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-crystal-cruises","tag-shore-excursions","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476","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=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}