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UPDATE: Visit here for more photos Royal Princess is the new name of Princess’ newbuild due out in May 2013. Princess unveiled that and some additional details at Cruise Shipping Miami today. The 141,000 grt ship will feature some new venues including SeaWalk. Think a combination of Royal Caribbeans cantilevered hot tubs and Disney’s Aqua [...]

Princess just announced that they will return to Galveston, TX! The Crown Princess will arrive on December 22, 2012 and sail 7-night Caribbean routes to the usual Roatan, Costa Maya, Belize, and Cozumel. Her last trip for the season will be on April 27, 2013. The ship will follow the Voyager of the Seas schedule [...]

Back on December 20th I reported on a rumor that the Grand Princess would be losing its trademark Skywalkers Disco. The “Shopping Cart Handle” will be chopped off in a future drydocking Princess has now confirmed. Check out the below renders of what she is planned on looking like!

Princess will be using the standard propulsion for their newbuilds. Princess has had pretty good luck in the propulsion section. Unlike rivals Celebrity that had a ton of issues with their mermaid pods. They did make it up in the impending lawsuit filed against the yard which may have lead to Alstrom going bankrupt. Anyways, [...]

There is a rumor that the Grand Princess will have her Skywalkers nightclub removed in a future drydocking. Apparently all the engineering has been completed and all that’s left is the final go-ahead and selection of the shipyard to do it. The nightclub is suspended two decks above highest deck on the ship and offers [...]

Princess Cruises Island Princess was the first ship to hook up to shore side power while docked in San Francisco. The ship literally plugs into power cables from the dock. Several of Princess Cruises ships are equipped with the ability to plug into ports that offer this. By integrating the ship into the cities power [...]

So due to the changes mentioned in a previous post, here is a webcam grab that is very rare. Princess no longer sails into the New York Passenger Ship Terminal’s finger piers up the Hudson. Since the QM2 gets priority over the Caribbean Princess in Brooklyn, here is a special treat as we see her [...]

UPDATE 11:46: So it turns out that when I go to find a quote from Princess, their news site is down! 96 passengers became ill with the norovirus on Princess Cruises, Sapphire Princess. She was on the return leg of a 7-Night Inland Passage cruise in Alaska. Port officials decided to dock the ship at [...]

As we’ve all seen in the news, there are a lot of protests regarding the Israeli special forces landing on a ship. So far Princess Cruises have cancelled today’s call in the port of Ashdod, Israel. Azmara is the next in line and we await their decision. I will post their decision. Gene Sloan is [...]