{"id":340,"date":"2021-01-04T18:42:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/?p=340"},"modified":"2021-01-04T18:42:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T18:42:25","slug":"these-cruise-ships-were-cut-in-half-to-be-enlarged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/2021\/01\/04\/these-cruise-ships-were-cut-in-half-to-be-enlarged\/","title":{"rendered":"These Cruise Ships Were Cut in Half To Be Enlarged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, several cruise lines opted to increase capacity by stretching their current ships. Known as lengthening, the process of enlarging a cruise ship usually includes cutting the ship in half and adding a new midsection, with more cabins and public areas.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some of the ships that went through the operation in the past:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enchantment of the Seas\u2013 Royal Caribbean<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"thumbnail zoomin\" title=\"Enchantment of the Seas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cruiseindustrynews.com\/images\/stories\/wire\/2020\/dec\/Enchantment_of_the_Seas.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-com_content_article_24107\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruiseindustrynews.com\/images\/stories\/wire\/2020\/dec\/Enchantment_of_the_Seas.jpg\" srcset=\"\/images\/stories\/wire\/2020\/dec\/Enchantment_of_the_Seas.jpg\" alt=\"Enchantment of the Seas\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2005, the 75,000-ton Enchantment of the Seas became the biggest ship ever to get lengthened. In a shipyard in Rotterdam, the 1997-built vessel received a new 22-meter long mid-body section.<\/p>\n<p>Built at the same shipyard where the Enchantment was built, the new section was installed in less than two months. With the refit, the Vision-class vessel received 150 additional cabins, a new water park with an interactive water fountain, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lirica Class \u2013 MSC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"thumbnail zoomin\" title=\"Renaissance MSC \" href=\"https:\/\/www.cruiseindustrynews.com\/images\/stories\/wire\/2020\/dec\/Renaissance_MSC_1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-com_content_article_24107\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruiseindustrynews.com\/images\/stories\/wire\/2020\/dec\/Renaissance_MSC_1.jpg\" srcset=\"\/images\/stories\/wire\/2020\/dec\/Renaissance_MSC_1.jpg\" alt=\"Renaissance MSC \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"thumbnail zoomin\" title=\"Renaissance MSC \" href=\"https:\/\/www.cruiseindustrynews.com\/images\/stories\/wire\/2020\/dec\/Renaissance_MSC_2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-com_content_article_24107\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruiseindustrynews.com\/images\/stories\/wire\/2020\/dec\/Renaissance_MSC_2.jpg\" srcset=\"\/images\/stories\/wire\/2020\/dec\/Renaissance_MSC_2.jpg\" alt=\"Renaissance MSC \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, several cruise lines opted to increase capacity by stretching their current ships. Known as lengthening, the process of enlarging a cruise ship usually includes cutting the ship in half and adding a new midsection, with more cabins and public areas. Below are some of the ships that went through the operation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deluxecruises.com\/deals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}