{"id":8909,"date":"2011-06-13T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-megaliner-moves-in-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-13T02:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T02:11:00","slug":"struth-megaliner-moves-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/06\/struth-megaliner-moves-in-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Megaliner moves in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--C2UTQR83hE\/TfVx6onuEQI\/AAAAAAAAOyg\/gohgH3Sb794\/s1600\/Ship%2BVoyager_of_the_Seas_jpg%2Brsz-712798.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--C2UTQR83hE\/TfVx6onuEQI\/AAAAAAAAOyg\/gohgH3Sb794\/s320\/Ship%2BVoyager_of_the_Seas_jpg%2Brsz-712798.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Australia is to get its first-ever &#8220;megaliner&#8221; to be based here for a whole cruise season: the 138,000-tonne Voyager of the Seas that&#8217;s the length of three football fields will call Sydney &#8220;home&#8221; from November next year to March 2013, and will sail a dozen cruises of up to 18-nights to New Zealand, South Pacific Islands and Australian ports.<\/p>\n<p>To keep her 3,100 guests amused, this gargantuan liner has eleven restaurants, caf\u00e9s and other eateries, thirteen bars and clubs, three swimming pools, an ice-rink with an in-line ice-skating track, rock-climbing wall and a 1400sq metre gym and spa.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a water park for the kids, a 9-hole mini-golf course, a casino, and if you&#8217;re suddenly smitten, a wedding chapel.<\/p>\n<p>And for those who simply have to shop, a Royal Promenade of shops, boutiques and bars, and down which there is a nightly band &#8220;street parade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While finally for those who can&#8217;t afford an &#8220;outside&#8221; stateroom with a balcony, but who don&#8217;t like the thought of claustrophobic inside cabins with no windows, there&#8217;s a special section of inside staterooms that actually have a view \u2013 they overlook that Royal Promenade with all its activity including the nightly band parade.<\/p>\n<p>If you book one of these, just remember to draw the curtains when its time to go to bed\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Australia is to get its first-ever &#8220;megaliner&#8221; to be based here for a whole cruise season: the 138,000-tonne Voyager of the Seas that&#8217;s the length of three football fields will call Sydney &#8220;home&#8221; [&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-8909","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\/8909","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=8909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}