{"id":16582,"date":"2012-01-05T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=16582"},"modified":"2012-01-05T10:03:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:03:04","slug":"rough-start-for-ferry-to-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/rough-start-for-ferry-to-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Rough Start For Ferry To Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15577\" title=\"bahamas-ferry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-ferry.jpg\" alt=\"Balearia Bahamas Fast Ferry\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-ferry.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-ferry-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-ferry-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>It seemed like a good idea at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Take the new \u201chigh speed\u201d Bahamas Express ferry for a media cruise to the Bahamas, spend the day in Freeport and get home in time for the late news.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Ann and the Professor didn\u2019t think anything could go wrong during a three-hour tour aboard the Minnow, either.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, opening-week glitches coupled with last week\u2019s bad weather meant a photographer and I spent more than 10 hours on board ship for a mere three hours on Grand Bahama Island.<\/p>\n<p>And none of the ship\u2019s three fancy espresso machines was working. Nor were any of the bars open.<\/p>\n<p>This was hardly the leisurely day trip ferry officials described when they opted to fill the void left when Celebration Cruises\u2019 aging ship went out of business in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening-week glitches and bad weather turned what should have been a leisurely 3-hour ferry to the Bahamas into a 10-hour trip&#8230; without the promised amenities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[96,111,107,81],"class_list":["post-16582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-boats","tag-cruise","tag-florida","tag-grand-bahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16582","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}