{"id":12983,"date":"2011-10-14T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T18:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12983"},"modified":"2011-10-14T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T18:23:26","slug":"bahamas-celebration-cruise-committed-to-grand-bahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/bahamas-celebration-cruise-committed-to-grand-bahama","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Celebration Cruise Committed To Grand Bahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst ongoing rumors about a potential pullout from its Grand Bahama route, executives of the Celebration Cruise Line (CCL) said that they are committed to the island for the long haul.<\/p>\n<p>The cruise line, which began servicing the destination in March 2010, offers a cruise from Grand Bahama to West Palm Beach every other day.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Kinnear, President of Carnival Cruise Lines told The Freeport News that they value the investment they have made in the island, and do not intend to abandon it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well we know there are a lot of rumors out there about us going to Nassau (and) leaving the area and we just wanted to&#8230; let everyone know that we are here to stay,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve made a commitment to Grand Bahama Island, we made a commitment to the Bahamian residents and we&#8217;re not going anywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kinnear said there have been reports that the cruise line would be resuming its Nassau route, which it discontinued prior to beginning the Grand Bahama service.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the government had requested that the company assist with its Speed Week events.<\/p>\n<p>The cruise line is expected to make three trips from West Palm to New Providence transporting spectators, racecars and participants to the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executives of the Celebration Cruise Line (CCL) confirmed they are committed to the Grand Bahama route despite ongoing rumours saying otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,81],"class_list":["post-12983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-cruise","tag-grand-bahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}