{"id":15177,"date":"2011-11-18T08:39:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15177"},"modified":"2011-11-18T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T13:39:10","slug":"carnival-ecstatic-about-port-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/carnival-ecstatic-about-port-canaveral","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Ecstatic About Port Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15181\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"carnival-ecstasy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/carnival-ecstasy1-e1321623516391-250x193.jpg\" alt=\"Carnival Ecstasy\" width=\"250\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/carnival-ecstasy1-e1321623516391-250x193.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/carnival-ecstasy1-e1321623516391-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/carnival-ecstasy1-e1321623516391.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>No sooner had Carnival based a third cruise ship at Port Canaveral than it is talking about the potential for a fourth ship.<\/p>\n<p>Not  only would that increase options for tourists, but another ship like  the Carnival Ecstasy, which started service last week at the port, could  bring hundreds of jobs and a $50 million-a-year economic impact to the  region.<\/p>\n<p>Carnival official Rob Huffman Jr. said his Miami-based company is selling out its cruises from Port Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p>Canaveral Port Authority Chief Executive Officer J. Stanley Payne  said he is pleased by Carnival\u2019s strong presence here. He likes the  prospect for either a fourth Carnival ship based at Port Canaveral, or  Carnival switching out one of its current ships for a larger one.Carnival\u2019s  Port Canaveral-based ships include the Ecstasy, with four- and five-day  cruises to the Bahamas; its sister ship, the Sensation, with three- and  four-day Bahamas cruises; and the larger Dream, with seven-day eastern  and western Caribbean cruises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnival Cruise Lines, which recently based a third ship in Port Canaveral, loves the port so much that they are now talking about basing a fourth ship there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[111,107],"class_list":["post-15177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-cruise","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}