{"id":14496,"date":"2010-09-19T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/cruise-west-sinks-2\/"},"modified":"2010-09-19T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T05:16:00","slug":"cruise-west-sinks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/09\/cruise-west-sinks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise West sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Seattle-based small-ship operator Cruise West has announced that it will cease operations effective today.<\/p>\n<p>The cruise line issued a statement saying that over the last 12 months it\u00a0 had tried a number of options to continue sailing, including investment,\u00a0 the sale of assets and sale of the company, but these have ultimately<br \/>proved unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Dick West said he was &#8220;absolutely heartbroken that this family\u00a0 legacy has come to an end&#8230;We have done absolutely everything to maintain\u00a0 operations, but with limited resources and the current tight financial\u00a0 market, we simply cannot continue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>All future cruises have been cancelled except a 22 Sep Danube departure.<\/p>\n<p>The company is continuing to recommend that customers who have bookings and haven&#8217;t yet travelled should claim on travel insurance or apply for a\u00a0 credit card chargeback.<\/p>\n<p>More information in Monday&#8217;s Travel Daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Seattle-based small-ship operator Cruise West has announced that it will cease operations effective today. The cruise line issued a statement saying that over the last 12 months it\u00a0 had tried a number of options to continue sailing, including investment,\u00a0 the sale of assets and sale of the company, but these have ultimatelyproved unsuccessful. Chairman [&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":[368],"class_list":["post-14496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cruise-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496","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=14496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}