{"id":11795,"date":"2013-03-17T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-epic-fail-of-norwegian-proportions-no-room-for-you-in-nassau\/"},"modified":"2015-08-10T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T08:35:10","slug":"struth-epic-fail-of-norwegian-proportions-no-room-for-you-in-nassau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/03\/struth-epic-fail-of-norwegian-proportions-no-room-for-you-in-nassau\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Epic Fail of Norwegian proportions – no room for you in Nassau"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0<\/u><\/b>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says it’s embarrassing enough for a hotel to have to tell you that, sorry, they’ve overbooked and don’t have a room for you for the night.<\/div>\n

But in the Bahamas, port authorities at Nassau have just gone one further \u2013 a couple of Fridays ago they had to tell the Captain of 156,000 tonne cruise ship Norwegian Epic, with 4,100 passengers aboard that, sorry, we’ve overbooked and we don’t have a berth for you for today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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To say that shipping company Norwegian Cruise Lines and those 4,100 passengers were “not happy, Jan” at being told to go away and find somewhere else, would be an understatement. And a resort next to where the vessel would have berthed was more than fuming at having lost an estimated US$100,000 from all those passengers it invites to use its restaurants, snack outlets, numerous bars, sporting facilities and water park.<\/p>\n

What makes it all the more strange is that Nassau has only five<\/i> berths, and Norwegian Epic visits there every <\/i>Friday throughout winter. <\/p>\n

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While authorities are trying to explain how they got it so wrong, a local newspaper is suggesting that Nassau replace its current advertising slogan “Life Needs the Caribbean. You Need a Passport,” <\/i>with “Nassau: We’ll see if we can squeeze you in.”<\/u><\/u><\/i>\n<\/div>\n
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Port at Nassau \u00a0IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says it’s embarrassing enough for a hotel to have to tell you that, sorry, they’ve overbooked and don’t have a room for you for the night. But in the Bahamas, port authorities at Nassau […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-11795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-struth-3","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23046,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795\/revisions\/23046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}