The Marianas Visitors Authority is preparing to welcome visitors from two ships that will be arriving in Saipan over the holidays. <\/p>\n
The MS Asuka II will arrive Dec. 31, 2014, at 8am for a one-day visit. The ship is expected to bring 875 visitors to the island, including 488 crewmembers. <\/p>\n
On Jan. 1, 2015, the Nippon Maru will arrive at 8am, also for a one-day visit. The ship has 450 aboard, including 200 crewmembers. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to the arrival of these two passenger vessels on New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day,\u201d said MVA Community Projects manager Martin Duenas. \u201cAs a community, let\u2019s do our best to make them feel welcomed and happy for choosing to spend the holidays with us.\u201d <\/p>\n
As tradition with visiting large passenger vessels and military vessels, the MVA will greet the visiting ships with a local dance troupe during docking. The passengers will also take an island tour while in Saipan. (MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Marianas Visitors Authority is preparing to welcome visitors from two ships that will be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[200,212],"class_list":["post-188409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-military","tag-mva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}