{"id":146275,"date":"2025-11-21T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146275\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:55:11","slug":"first-cruise-of-the-season-into-napier-the-298-metre-noordam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146275\/","title":{"rendered":"First cruise of the season into Napier, the 298-metre Noordam"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 298-metre-long Noordam\u2019s first season through Napier, in 2015-2016, there were 42 stops.<\/p>\n

Missing from the schedule this summer is 348-metre-long Royal Caribbean megaliner Ovation of the Seas, a regular since first berthing in Napier in January 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was at the time just nine months after its maiden voyage and the largest cruise ship ever to berth in New Zealand. <\/p>\n

But sister ship Anthem of the Seas, with a capacity of 4905 passengers and launched in 2015, is due on December 5, for the first of four visits this summer.<\/p>\n

Most are on transtasman cruises, but P&O line\u2019s Arcadia, in port on March 1, will be on a 106-day World cruise, Southampton to Southampton.<\/p>\n

Doug Laing is a Hawke\u2019s Bay Today reporter based in Napier, with more than 42 years reporting for newspapers in the region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the 298-metre-long Noordam\u2019s first season through Napier, in 2015-2016, there were 42 stops. Missing from the schedule…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[98181,98179,28824,1561,74999,138,2037,1888,1342,11551,296,3607,111,139,98180,69,1118,6926,17093,223],"class_list":["post-146275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-98181","tag-298metre","tag-arrived","tag-bay","tag-berth","tag-business","tag-cruise","tag-first","tag-five","tag-hours","tag-into","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-noordam","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-season","tag-ship","tag-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146275","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=146275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}