{"id":18665,"date":"2022-12-20T12:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/norwegian-dawn-completes-20-years-in-service-cruise-industry-news\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T12:34:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:34:33","slug":"norwegian-dawn-completes-20-years-in-service-cruise-industry-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/norwegian-dawn-completes-20-years-in-service-cruise-industry-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Dawn Completes 20 Years in Service &#8211; Cruise Industry News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Norwegian Dawn is finishing 20 years in service this month. Operated by Norwegian Cruise Line, the vessel was christened throughout a particular ceremony in New York City on December 16, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days later, the Dawn arrived in Miami for its maiden income voyage in North America, a seven-night cruise to the Western Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>The itinerary included visits to Montego Bay, Jamaica; George Town, Grand Cayman; Costa Maya and Cozumel, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Built by the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany, the Norwegian Dawn was initially ordered for Star Cruises because the TremendousStar Scorpio.<\/p>\n<p>The cruise line \u2013 which, on the time, was a part of the identical enterprise conglomerate as Norwegian Cruise Line \u2013 deliberate to make use of the ship for year-round cruising in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>While the Scorpio was nonetheless beneath development, nonetheless, <a href=\"https:\/\/cruiseindustrynews.com\/cruise-news\/2001\/03\/ncl-expansion-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star determined to switch the ship to the U.S.-based cruise line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A sister to the Norwegian Star, the Dawn is a part of Norwegian\u2019s first technology of Freestyle Cruising vessels and may carry as much as 2,200 visitors in double occupancy.<\/p>\n<p>Originally designed with a complete of ten eating venues, the 91,000-ton cruise ship additionally launched the idea of hull artwork \u2013 a function that was later added to the whole Norwegian Cruise Line fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Extensively refurbished over time, the Dawn underwent a serious modernization in 2016, as a part of The Norwegian Edge program.<\/p>\n<p>During the refit, the vessel obtained a number of new options, together with Los Lobos Cantina, a Mexican specialty restaurant, and the Sugarcane Mojito Bar.<\/p>\n<p>The design and d\u00e9cor in all the ship\u2019s public rooms and staterooms was additionally up to date, together with a whole makeover of the Garden Villas \u2013 that are nonetheless a few of the largest suites in the whole Norwegian fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Presently providing ten- and 11-night Caribbean cruises departing from Tampa, the Dawn is about to spend the subsequent summer time in Northern Europe earlier than crusing in Asia through the 2023-2024 winter season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Norwegian Dawn is finishing 20 years in service this month. Operated by Norwegian Cruise Line, the vessel was christened throughout a particular ceremony in New York City on December 16, 2002. A couple of days later, the Dawn arrived in Miami for its maiden income voyage in North America, a seven-night cruise to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cruiseindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ncl-dawn-tampa-bay-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cruise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}