{"id":3487,"date":"2018-04-03T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=8ca6b843bfcff29737caaaeb140814c6"},"modified":"2018-04-03T17:11:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T21:11:02","slug":"jackhammers-fumes-turn-b-c-familys-panama-canal-cruise-into-construction-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/jackhammers-fumes-turn-b-c-familys-panama-canal-cruise-into-construction-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackhammers, fumes turn B.C. family\u2019s Panama Canal cruise into construction zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA &#8212; A suburban Victoria woman says she didn&#8217;t expect to be hearing jackhammers or smelling strong fumes when she booked a spring-break family cruise through the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n<p>Cecilia Jenkins says a major construction project began moments after the Norwegian Cruise Lines vessel left a dock in Miami, and the raucous lasted the entire voyage.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins is one of dozens of passengers who were aboard the Norwegian Sun and are now publicly criticizing the company for launching the work on a vessel loaded with passengers.<\/p>\n<p>She says her family spent more than $10,000 for the two-week trip that was filled with dust, noise and inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins says she&#8217;s been suffering breathing problems since returning to Vancouver Island and at one point on her trip almost collapsed from inhaling fumes.<\/p>\n<p>Norwegian Cruise Lines has not been immediately available for comment, but Jenkins and others say passengers were offered a 25 per cent discount on another cruise if they take it within the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA &mdash; A suburban Victoria woman says she didn&rsquo;t expect to be hearing jackhammers or smelling strong fumes when she booked a spring-break family cruise through the Panama Canal. Cecilia Jenkins says a major construction project began moments after the Norwegian Cruise Lines vessel left a dock in Miami, and the raucous lasted the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}