{"id":15162,"date":"2008-08-27T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/ocean-odyssey-wont-sail-this-winter-2\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T03:37:00","slug":"ocean-odyssey-wont-sail-this-winter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/08\/ocean-odyssey-wont-sail-this-winter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Odyssey Won&#8217;t Sail This Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_h2iI0RWElyA\/R-i6lXfExpI\/AAAAAAAAATM\/qIy88LtdyX8\/s400\/M+V+Ocean+Odyssey+13+march+08.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><br \/>Indian Ocean Cruises\u2019 200-passenger Ocean Odyssey, which has been berthed in Mauritius since the spring having completing a second season of voyages around the southwest coast of India, will not be cruising this winter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruise-community.com\/\">Seatrade Insider<\/a> has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Foresight-owned company said the plan was always to use the ship as a floating hotel in the off season which is why the vessel was in Mauritius, but confirmed that the ship will not cruise the Indian Ocean this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Ocean Odyssey underwent an extensive $5m refit in Greece in 2006 prior to a summer charter operation in the Med. Its Indian cruising venture started in January 2007 from Goa. In its current state the 1965-built ship would not comply with SOLAS regulations after 2010, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>During the past two winters Ocean Odyssey has offered expedition cruises on six-, eight- and 14-night voyages in regional waters, including exclusive access to the Lakshadweep archipelago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Ocean Cruises\u2019 200-passenger Ocean Odyssey, which has been berthed in Mauritius since the spring having completing a second season of voyages around the southwest coast of India, will not be cruising this winter, Seatrade Insider has learnt. A spokesperson for the Foresight-owned company said the plan was always to use the ship as a [&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":[],"class_list":["post-15162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15162","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=15162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}