{"id":4518,"date":"2008-09-30T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2008-09-30T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T11:11:00","slug":"saigon-company-to-launch-new-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/09\/saigon-company-to-launch-new-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Saigon company to launch new ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halongbayvietnam.net\/halong_bay_deluxe_cruises\/Jasmine_Cruise\/jasmine_Cruise_halong_bay_vietnam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.halongbayvietnam.net\/halong_bay_deluxe_cruises\/Jasmine_Cruise\/jasmine_Cruise_halong_bay_vietnam.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruise-community.com\/\">Seatrade Insider<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Saigon-based <a href=\"http:\/\/trailsofindochina.com\/\">Trails of Indochina<\/a> will launch the first ship for its new Heritage Cruise Line in August next year.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-mtr Jayavarman, which is being built in Vietnam at a cost of around US$4m, will operate three-, four-, five- and eight-day cruises between Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, the port for Angkor Wat.<\/p>\n<p>The family-owned Trails of Indochina, which was established in 1998, is also the major shareholder in Halong Cruises which operates one- and two-night cruises around Halong Bay with the luxury junks Jasmine and Ginger (pic above). A third junk, Violet, will enter service next May.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Morgan, the Queensland-based representative for Trails of Indochina in Australia and New Zealand, has told Seatrade Insider that Jayavarman will be the most luxurious boutique cruise ship on the Mekong River.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan said each of the 27 staterooms will have a private balcony and the ship\u2019s facilities include a spa, shop, library and two spacious lounge areas. He said the dining room will serve Asian and Western cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan said plans for a second Heritage Cruise Line ship are on the drawing board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Seatrade Insider Saigon-based Trails of Indochina will launch the first ship for its new Heritage Cruise Line in August next year. The 58-mtr Jayavarman, which is being built in Vietnam at a cost of around US$4m, will operate three-, four-, five- and eight-day cruises between Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","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=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}