{"id":8747,"date":"2011-07-11T01:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T08:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2011-07-11T01:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T08:17:28","slug":"pizza-norwegian-ships-247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8747","title":{"rendered":"NCL Pizza Anytime \u2014 that&#039;s ANYtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was with some surprise that we discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/\">Norwegian<\/a> is taking pizza to a new level, or hour. When we sailed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/ship\/epic\">Epic<\/a> in November, we noticed that pizza was available 24\/7 <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8757\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2011\/07\/pizza-norwegian-ships-247\/800px-pepperoni_pizza-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8757\" title=\"800px-Pepperoni_pizza\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/800px-Pepperoni_pizza1-e1310348060792.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a>(from room service after midnight), and in another era we couldn&#8217;t have counted the times we&#8217;d relished the thought of having pizza under the stars\u2026and did.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the summer, you&#8217;ll be able to order pizza after midnight on all NCL ships,\u00a0 the possible exception being the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/cruise-ship\/pride_amer\/overview\">Pride of America<\/a> that sails the waters of Hawaii, where nobody likes pizza unless it&#8217;s smothered in pineapples.<\/p>\n<p>Pizza is a staple in our household. We have even made it in a wood oven in Italy, with the help of professionals who spoke no English but could talk pizza. If it&#8217;s not on the table once a week in our house, the cook has failed.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, we love pizza (thin &#8216;n crispy, please)\u2026just not after midnight. Norwegian&#8217;s plan is great news for the late-night\/early-morning snack people, providing they still have stomachs or digestive systems strong enough to handle it. And since this &#8220;Epic&#8221; test was obviously a success, there are more of them who do than we thought.<\/p>\n<p>On NCL ships, handmade pizza costs five bucks. That&#8217;s never an issue for a pizza-holic but, for some of us, the clock is.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pizza photo by Jon Sullivan, <a href=\"http:\/\/PDPhoto.org\">PD Photo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was with some surprise that we discovered Norwegian is taking pizza to a new level, or hour. When we sailed on the Epic in November, we noticed that pizza was available 24\/7 (from room service after midnight), and in another era we couldn&#8217;t have counted the times we&#8217;d relished the thought of having pizza&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8747\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NCL Pizza Anytime \u2014 that&#039;s ANYtime<\/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":[16,25,19,15],"tags":[301,86,231,29,126,656],"class_list":["post-8747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-ship-food","tag-cruise-ships","tag-dining-on-ships","tag-epic","tag-norwegian","tag-pizza","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747","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=8747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}