{"id":13712,"date":"2011-11-16T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/alaskan-dream-cruises-optimistic-4\/"},"modified":"2011-11-16T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:56:00","slug":"alaskan-dream-cruises-optimistic-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/11\/alaskan-dream-cruises-optimistic-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaskan Dream Cruises &#8216;optimistic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskandreamcruises.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/admiralty1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alaskandreamcruises.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/admiralty1.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>66-passenger Admiralty Dream<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskandreamcruises.com\/\">Alaskan Dream Cruises<\/a>, the Sitka-based, native-owned small ship operator, is &#8220;optimistic&#8221; about its second year after an encouraging finish to its inaugural season. &#8220;Our inaugural season for 2011 definitely had a slow start, but thank goodness for last-minute bookers,&#8221; reports Vice President of Sales and Marketing Michael Wien. \u201cThe end of the season was encouraging, and that gave us the confidence and boost to move into 2012,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Wien told <a href=\"http:\/\/cruisebusiness.com\/\">Cruise Business Review<\/a> that ADC aims to carve out a unique niche for itself that will distinguish the small ship line from its competitors. &#8220;At Alaskan Dream Cruises, we want to make sure our guests have an overall experience of what life is like in Alaska. We\u2019re going to have a strong native cultural influence to make sure guests have a good understanding of the rich history of native culture in the Southeast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the sudden expansion by small ship lines in Alaska since the failure of Cruise West, he notes, &#8220;With the demise of Cruise West more boats were available. With that, the three cruise lines [Alaskan Dream Cruises, American Safari Cruises, and InnerSea Discoveries] picked up the boats and are designing their own business model and highlights. And whatever cruise line you choose, it\u2019s a great way because they all have a different angle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For now, Alaskan Dream Cruises is not looking to increase capacity as it builds brand awareness with its existing fleet of two ships, carrying 42 and 66 passengers respectively. &#8220;We are currently focusing on the 2012 itineraries aboard the Alaskan Dream and Admiralty Dream,&#8221; Wien emphasizes. However, the line does own another former Cruise West vessel, renamed the Baranof Dream, which is being held in reserve and is available for charter.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>66-passenger Admiralty Dream Alaskan Dream Cruises, the Sitka-based, native-owned small ship operator, is &#8220;optimistic&#8221; about its second year after an encouraging finish to its inaugural season. &#8220;Our inaugural season for 2011 definitely had a slow start, but thank goodness for last-minute bookers,&#8221; reports Vice President of Sales and Marketing Michael Wien. \u201cThe end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-13712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alaskan-dream-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712","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=13712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}