{"id":8930,"date":"2011-08-02T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=8930"},"modified":"2011-08-02T01:28:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:28:27","slug":"ship-enhancements-royal-caribbean-300million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8930","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Business Bucks Go Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What would you do with $300 million? More significantly, how fast could you spend it?<\/p>\n

In the cruise business, it can be dispersed just like…that!<\/p>\n

Even when it doesn’t include a new ship…a new engine…or a new captain. Or all of the above.<\/p>\n

Royal Caribbean will spend $300 million about as quietly as $300 million can be spent, over the next three years by sprucing up some of its ships. Regular passengers might notice the “sprucing” but first or even second-timers may just think whatever Royal Caribbean<\/a> ship they happen to be on has always had:
\n\u2022 flat-screen TVs
\n\u2022 pervasive WiFi (that means everywhere)
\n\u2022 digital touch screens to help find your way
\n\u2022 over-sized video screens on the deck
\n\u2022 additional dining options
\n\u2022 new staterooms (unless you’ve stayed in the old style, who would know?)<\/p>\n

The idea seems to be for Royal Caribbean to “Oasis-ize” its fleet the way Celebrity<\/a> is “Solsticiz-ing” its fleet. Coincidentally, both cruise lines are owned by the same company. Regulars on the ships that get the enhancements \u2014 and do not minimize the word “regulars” \u2014 will be impressed that “their favorite ship” is moving up in class.<\/p>\n

Cruisers sailing on Rhapsody of the Seas<\/a> or Grandeur of the Seas<\/a> (above) for the first time may just wonder where the $300 million went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What would you do with $300 million? More significantly, how fast could you spend it? In the cruise business, it can be dispersed just like…that! Even when it doesn’t include a new ship…a new engine…or a new captain. Or all of the above. Royal Caribbean will spend $300 million about as quietly as $300 million… Continue reading Cruise Business Bucks Go Fast<\/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":[16,19,15],"tags":[55,86,682,683,33,520],"class_list":["post-8930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-ship-upgrades","tag-cruise-ships","tag-grandeur-of-the-seas","tag-rhapsody-of-the-seas","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-ship-refurbishing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930","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=8930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}