{"id":5622,"date":"2012-08-15T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-everyone-wants-their-place-in-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2012-08-15T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T13:57:00","slug":"struth-everyone-wants-their-place-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/08\/struth-everyone-wants-their-place-in-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"struth! Everyone wants their place in the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pdQ1Iop-xSo\/UCuqsSHSgQI\/AAAAAAAAXjM\/im07nveG__o\/s1600\/Ship%2BCarnival_Breeze-724605.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pdQ1Iop-xSo\/UCuqsSHSgQI\/AAAAAAAAXjM\/im07nveG__o\/s320\/Ship%2BCarnival_Breeze-724605.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5776898624786170114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a major bane of cruise-goers could soon be a thing of the past \u2013 on Carnival ships at least.<\/p>\n<p>Because they&#8217;re trialling a system to stop early-rising passengers &#8220;claiming&#8221; deck-chairs by putting towels, books, clothing and other personal items on the best-positioned ones, and then going away and not using those deck-chair or sun-bed for sometimes hours.<\/p>\n<p>Crew aboard the company&#8217;s new Carnival Breeze in the Caribbean have begun &#8220;policing&#8221; deck-chairs by putting stickers showing the time they&#8217;ve noticed them &#8220;reserved&#8221; with personal items, but not being occupied. After 40-minutes if still unoccupied, staff are removing the items, leaving a note explaining what they have done, and advising where the items can be re-claimed.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman said reserving deck-chairs or sun-beds and not immediately using them had long been of concern. &#8220;Once our trials aboard Carnival Breeze are completed we will make any necessary adjustments and roll it out fleet-wide,&#8221; he said, adding that 40-minutes grace had been chosen as that was thought long enough for guests to duck-away for something to eat, take a swim, get a drink or go to the toilet.<\/p>\n<p>And not surprisingly, Carnival says reaction in the first fortnight has been &#8220;overwhelmingly positive&#8221; amongst those who&#8217;ve often been deprived for hours from enjoying their place in the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a major bane of cruise-goers could soon be a thing of the past \u2013 on Carnival ships at least. Because they&#8217;re trialling a system to stop early-rising passengers &#8220;claiming&#8221; deck-chairs by putting towels, books, clothing and [&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":[377],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622","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=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}