{"id":101057,"date":"2025-10-25T22:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101057\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T22:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:43:11","slug":"first-of-seasons-cruise-ships-docks-in-dunedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101057\/","title":{"rendered":"First of season&#8217;s cruise ships docks in Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/splendor_online.jpg\" width=\"1872\" height=\"1088\" alt=\"Carnival Splendor passes Careys Bay to berth at Port Chalmers at 7.30am on Sunday. Photo: Stephen...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Carnival Splendor passes Careys Bay to berth at Port Chalmers at 7.30am on Sunday. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery<\/p>\n<p>The first of 79 cruise ships scheduled to visit Dunedin this year has arrived in the city this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Carnival Splendor, which has a capacity of just over 3000, was scheduled to arrive on Friday but the wild weather that lashed the South on Thursday forced a delay.<\/p>\n<p>The ship berthed at Port Chalmers about 7.30am today.<\/p>\n<p>Port Otago customer general manager Craig Usher said the poor weather had meant a shuffling of dates, and that after a stop in Dunedin today the ship would be in Fiordland on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Usher said everything was looking good for this season and every member of the company\u2019s cruise team had come back for another season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carnival Splendor passes Careys Bay to berth at Port Chalmers at 7.30am on Sunday. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-101057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}