{"id":8934,"date":"2011-08-01T01:31:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T08:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=8934"},"modified":"2011-08-01T01:31:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T08:31:27","slug":"norwegian-special-rates-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8934","title":{"rendered":"Military Rates on NCL&#039;s Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/\">Norwegian<\/a> announced the other day that it was &#8220;offering special rates&#8221; to members of the U.S. and Canadian armed forces, we thought we&#8217;d check it out&#8230;even though we don&#8217;t qualify.<\/p>\n<p>NCL&#8217;s gesture is admirable and &#8220;saluting&#8221; the armed forces is typical of the cruise line&#8217;s well-established knack for innovations. But press release didn&#8217;t say what the special rates were. Neither did the website where applicants were directed \u2014 in addition to a travel professional and NCL by phone \u2014 to take advantage. As a service to the servicemen and servicewomen, we contacted the cruise line, and here&#8217;s what we found out:<\/p>\n<p>1. A dedicated landing page featuring all the military discounts will be on the website soon.<\/p>\n<p>2. Bookings can be made for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/ship\/epic\">Epic<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/cruise-ship\/pride_amer\/overview\">Pride of America<\/a> online by entering MILITARY in the &#8220;promo code.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. The special rates are not percentage discounts, but reduced rates that depend on ship and date and, says Amanda Graham, NCL&#8217;s Manager of Public Relations: &#8220;It&#8217;s a very good deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At your service!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Norwegian announced the other day that it was &#8220;offering special rates&#8221; to members of the U.S. and Canadian armed forces, we thought we&#8217;d check it out&#8230;even though we don&#8217;t qualify. NCL&#8217;s gesture is admirable and &#8220;saluting&#8221; the armed forces is typical of the cruise line&#8217;s well-established knack for innovations. But press release didn&#8217;t say&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8934\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military Rates on NCL&#039;s Ships<\/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":[72,86,35,684,162,126,420],"class_list":["post-8934","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-military-discounts","tag-ncl-epic","tag-norwegian","tag-pride-of-america","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934","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=8934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}