{"id":110,"date":"2022-05-02T09:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T08:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/?p=110"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:55:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T10:55:56","slug":"the-first-cruise-ships-for-orkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/2022\/05\/02\/the-first-cruise-ships-for-orkney\/","title":{"rendered":"The first cruise ships for Orkney"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first cruise ships for Orkney<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Scarlett<\/p>\n

On the 24th<\/sup> of March 2022 Orkney’s first cruise of the year, MS Gann, visited, later followed by Viking Venus on the 3rd<\/sup> of April, at Hatston Pier in Kirkwall. This is especially good because cruise ships have been cancelled between March 2020 and July 2021 due to Covid.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, this year has a record-breaking number of cruise ships scheduled to arrive in Orkney – a total of 209 ships. Despite predictions that these numbers will fall, there should still be at least 160 ships arriving; the cruise ships in Orkney are making a full return.<\/p>\n

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Image from https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Gann_(ship,_1982)#\/media\/File:MSGann.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Report by Scarlett, using research and interviews found in \u201cCruise liners set to return in full in 2022\u201d published 13th Feb 2022 in The Orcadian online, and \u201cCruise set to return bigger than ever in 2022\u201d published 30th<\/sup> August 2021 on Orkney islands Council website.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first cruise ships for Orkney by Scarlett On the 24th of March 2022 Orkney’s first cruise of the year, MS Gann, visited, later followed by Viking Venus on the 3rd of April, at Hatston Pier in Kirkwall. This is especially good because cruise ships have been cancelled between March 2020 and July 2021 due … Continue reading The first cruise ships for Orkney<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-23"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}