{"id":13953,"date":"2011-06-23T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/blount-small-ship-adventures-reports-record-bookings-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T08:56:00","slug":"blount-small-ship-adventures-reports-record-bookings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/06\/blount-small-ship-adventures-reports-record-bookings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blount Small Ship Adventures Reports Record Bookings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blountsmallshipadventures.com\/images\/sized\/assets\/images\/uploads\/amazingships11-171x171.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"171\" src=\"http:\/\/blountsmallshipadventures.com\/images\/sized\/assets\/images\/uploads\/amazingships11-171x171.jpg\" width=\"171\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Blount Small Ship Adventures said bookings have increased 23 percent this year over the same period last year. \u201cTravelers in 2011 are searching for a great value and an even better experience,\u201d said Nancy Blount, president of Blount Small Ship Adventures, \u201cand we\u2019re giving it to them in the form of great base prices paired with more included excursions, live entertainment, guest lecturers, and onboard workshops than ever before. I think it\u2019s safe to say that small-ship cruising has arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blount offers North American and Caribbean cruises from homeports that are less expensive to fly to than European destinations. \u201cOur guests don\u2019t have to spend half their vacation budgets on airfare,\u201d Blount said. \u201cThey can embark near their home, sometimes even in their own city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company is offering couples a chance to save up to $1,200 per couple on 2012 sailings when booked by Aug. 1. This early booking discount supports the launch of the company\u2019s 2012 catalog, featuring eight new itineraries to destinations including the Galapagos Islands, Canada\u2019s Bay of Fundy, and the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n<p>Blount offers commissions on the cruise, protection plans, pre- and post-cruise stays and extensions, and special promotions.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s most popular cruise itineraries include the 10-day \u201cGems of the Virgin Islands\u201d; the 12-day \u201cBest of Belize, the Barrier Reef and Guatemala\u201d; the 16-day \u201cGreat American Waterways\u201d; the six-day \u201cIslands of New England\u201d; and the eight-day \u201cMagical Lake Michigan.\u201d For more information, call 800-556-7450, email info@blountsmallshipadventures.com or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blountsmallshipadventures.com\/\">www.blountsmallshipadventures.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blount Small Ship Adventures said bookings have increased 23 percent this year over the same period last year. \u201cTravelers in 2011 are searching for a great value and an even better experience,\u201d said Nancy Blount, president of Blount Small Ship Adventures, \u201cand we\u2019re giving it to them in the form of great base prices paired [&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":[366],"class_list":["post-13953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blount-small-ship-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953","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=13953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}