{"id":8530,"date":"2011-06-22T01:51:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T08:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=8530"},"modified":"2011-06-22T01:51:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T08:51:26","slug":"carnival-magic-sailing-from-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8530","title":{"rendered":"The &#039;Magic&#039; of Going to New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cms\/fun\/ships\/carnival_miracle\/default.aspx?shipCode=MI\">Carnival Miracle<\/a> will be sailing 8-day cruises to the Caribbean and the Bahamas out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/portal\/site\/nycgov\/?front_door=true\">New York<\/a> in the spring of 2012. Yes, that is next spring, isn&#8217;t it? We don&#8217;t know about you but &#8220;8-day cruises&#8221; and &#8220;Caribbean&#8221; and &#8220;Bahamas&#8221; are not what excites us about this news.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the &#8220;New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We know people who have never actually been to the Big Apple. They don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re missing\u2026and it&#8217;s not a cruise ship. By having more cruises departing from New <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8535\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2011\/06\/carnival-magic-sailing-from-new-york\/carnival-magic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8535\" title=\"Carnival Magic\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Magic-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>York, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/\">Carnival<\/a> is giving cruisers like us an excuse to go a few days early (normally we only arrive a day or so ahead of departure, but we&#8217;re willing to bend the rules for New York).<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it can be expensive. Yes, it is busy. Yes, you have to use common sense. And yes, it is exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing a Broadway play in New York can only be rivaled by seeing one in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitlondon.com\/?WT.srch=1&amp;WT.mc_id=us_ol_sem_0101023&amp;gclid=CP6miOKD5aYCFR9NgwodHwnozA\">London<\/a>. People watching in New York can&#8217;t be rivaled anywhere \u2014 or anywhere we&#8217;ve been. Variety of cuisine is in a class by itself. Choice of hotels and sporting events and history is\u2026well, you really have to be there.<\/p>\n<p>And now Carnival&#8217;s Magic is giving us another reason to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carnival Miracle will be sailing 8-day cruises to the Caribbean and the Bahamas out of New York in the spring of 2012. Yes, that is next spring, isn&#8217;t it? We don&#8217;t know about you but &#8220;8-day cruises&#8221; and &#8220;Caribbean&#8221; and &#8220;Bahamas&#8221; are not what excites us about this news. It&#8217;s the &#8220;New York.&#8221; We&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8530\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#039;Magic&#039; of Going to New York<\/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":[16,31,36,19,15],"tags":[154,391,51,86,35,515],"class_list":["post-8530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-ports","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-magic","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-new-york-city","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530","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=8530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}