{"id":6969,"date":"2011-03-01T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/breaking-news-celebrity-solstice-to-be-based-in-australia-2\/"},"modified":"2011-03-01T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T22:06:00","slug":"breaking-news-celebrity-solstice-to-be-based-in-australia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/03\/breaking-news-celebrity-solstice-to-be-based-in-australia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News &#8211; Celebrity Solstice to be based in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"celebrity-solstice.jpg\" alt=\"celebrity-solstice.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/elitechoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/celebrity-solstice.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"420\"><\/p>\n<p>Royal Caribbean announces yet another ship for down under<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Royal Caribbean md Australia Gavin Smith has just announced that Celebrity Solstice will be based in Australia for the 2012\/13 summer season.<\/p>\n<p>The additional deployment is the first time the ship has operated in the southern hemisphere, with the 122,000 tonne vessel the largest vessel to ever be based in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the youngest, with Solstice launching just three years ago with a range of innovative features such as the exclusive Aqua suites and the top deck Lawn Club which includes an acre of real grass.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said the ship would mainly operate a series of 12-13 trans-Tasman itineraries, but the program would also include a circumnavigation of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised that this would not be a one-off Australian deployment for Solstice, saying &#8220;she will be bringing travellers and cruisers from around the world over the hot Australian summer months for many years ahead&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Full details of itineraries and fares will be released towards the end of the month, Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>For further details\u00a0see today&#8217;s edition of Travel Daily and tomorrow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiseweekly.com.au\/\">Cruise Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Caribbean announces yet another ship for down under Royal Caribbean md Australia Gavin Smith has just announced that Celebrity Solstice will be based in Australia for the 2012\/13 summer season. The additional deployment is the first time the ship has operated in the southern hemisphere, with the 122,000 tonne vessel the largest vessel to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-6969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-royal-caribbean-cruise-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969","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=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}