2007/8 Caribbean Itineraries released

**Ally** · 07-17-2006, 10:44 AM

Princess Cruises will deploy seven ships to the Caribbean in the 2007-08 season, which features the debut of Emerald Princess in the Southern Caribbean and three maiden port calls.

The line will offer 110 departures on 10 itineraries, ranging from one week to 16 days, with ships varying in size from 680 passengers to 3,100 passengers.

The new Emerald Princess will assume the line’s 10-day sailings to the Southern Caribbean from Fort Lauderdale, alternating with an Eastern Caribbean route. In its second season from San Juan, Crown Princess will explore the Southern Caribbean on two alternating week-long itineraries.

Caribbean Princess will continue to operate the line’s classic seven-day Eastern Caribbean itinerary (St. Thomas, St. Maarten, Princess Cays) from Fort Lauderdale. Grand Princess takes over the seven-day Western route (Ocho Rios, Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Princess Cays) from Fort Lauderdale previously operated by Star Princess, and Sea Princess returns with 14-day sailings roundtrip from Barbados.

Two holiday cruises will be offered aboard Coral Princess and the 680-passenger Royal Princess, with the latter charting a 16-day voyage to new and more exclusive ports such as St. Barthelemy and Tobago.

All told, the Princess fleet will visit 30 Caribbean destinations, including three maiden calls on the Royal Princess holiday voyage: Samaná in the Dominican Republic, Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands and Bequia in the Grenadines.

(SeaTrade)

**Ally** · 07-18-2006, 06:26 AM

Princess' 2007-08 Caribbean season features:

Emerald Princess - The new Emerald Princess makes her Caribbean debut with alternating 10-day sailings roundtrip from Ft. Lauderdale - one to the Southern Caribbean and the other to the Eastern Caribbean. The Southern Caribbean Medley itinerary is offered on nine sailings and includes calls at Princess Cays, St. Thomas, Dominica, Grenada, Bonaire and Aruba. The Eastern Caribbean Voyager itinerary is featured on eight sailings and offers calls at Antigua, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Kitts, St. Thomas and Princess Cays. Emerald Princess' Caribbean season runs between October 27, 2007 and April 4, 2008.

Crown Princess - Crown Princess will once again be based in San Juan for alternating Saturday departures on seven-day cruises to the Southern Caribbean. The ship offers 14 sailings on a Classic Southern Caribbean itinerary featuring calls at Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua, Tortola and St. Thomas. The Southern Caribbean Explorer route meanwhile includes 14 departures with visits to St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Grenada, Bonaire and Aruba. In addition, Crown Princess begins the season with an Exotic Eastern Caribbean journey from New York to San Juan on October 20, 2007 that features stops at St. Thomas, Antigua, and St. Kitts. Crown Princess' Caribbean season runs through May 3, 2008.

Caribbean Princess - This ship continues to offer Princess' Classic Eastern Caribbean seven-day roundtrip sailings from Ft. Lauderdale. The vessel offers Sunday departures for 27 sailings that travel to St. Thomas, St. Maarten and Princess Cays. Departures run between October 28, 2007 and April 27, 2008.

Grand Princess - Grand Princess repositions to Ft. Lauderdale to take over the seven-day Western Caribbean cruises previously offered on Star Princess. The vessel departs on Saturdays on an itinerary that calls in Ocho Rios, Grand Cayman, Cozumel and Princess Cays. The ship offers 26 sailings on this itinerary between November 3, 2007 and April 26, 2008.

Sea Princess - Sea Princess will offer a series of 14-day Caribbean adventures from Barbados, featuring two alternating itineraries. Six sailings of the Grand Caribbean Islander route feature calls at Dominica, Antigua, Tortola, St. Thomas, Grand Turk, Montego Bay, Curaçao, Bonaire, Isla Margarita, Grenada and Trinidad. The ship will also offer six sailings on a Grand Caribbean Adventurer itinerary that features stops at St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Maarten, St. Thomas, Grand Turk, Montego Bay, Grand Cayman, Aruba, Bonaire, Caracas and Grenada. Sea Princess sails these routes between October 27, 2007 and March 29, 2008.

Coral Princess - Coral Princess will join the Caribbean fleet for a special holiday Eastern Caribbean sailing on December 20, 2007. This seven-day escape features visits to St. Thomas, St. Maarten and Princess' own Princess Cays.

Royal Princess - The intimate Royal Princess also offers a unique holiday option with an unusual 16-day Southern Caribbean Sojourn that sails roundtrip from Ft. Lauderdale and includes three new ports of call for Princess -- Samaná, Virgin Gorda and Bequia. The full itinerary includes Samaná (Dominican Republic), Virgin Gorda, Dominica, Bequia (The Genadines), Tobago, Devil's Island (Île Royale), Barbados, St. Lucia and St. Barthélemy. Royal Princess sets sail on December 22, 2007.

MD11F · 07-21-2006, 01:49 AM

The "Royal Princess" quoted by Princess Cruise Lines, should really be the Regal Princess. Princess made a typo error in this news release, as I checked their website and found no Princess ship by that name.

**Ally** · 07-21-2006, 02:21 AM

Regal is leaving the fleet to be replaced by Minerva 2 from Swan Hellenic that is to become Royal Princess.

Regal will be Pacific Dawn in the P&O Australia fleet.

MD11F · 07-21-2006, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by PagodaSwan

Regal is leaving the fleet to be replaced by Minerva 2 from Swan Hellenic that is to become Royal Princess.

Regal will be Pacific Dawn in the P&O Australia fleet.

Thanks for the update Ally.

**Ally** · 07-21-2006, 02:30 AM

You're welcome Ken, the ship transfers can be a bit hard to follow sometimes. This one is sad though as losing Minerva 2 will leave Swan Hellenic without any ships, and that company has been around for a very long time and they only do specialised luxury cruises. They have a very loyal and now upset and agry following.

MD11F · 07-22-2006, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by PagodaSwan

You're welcome Ken, the ship transfers can be a bit hard to follow sometimes. This one is sad though as losing Minerva 2 will leave Swan Hellenic without any ships, and that company has been around for a very long time and they only do specialised luxury cruises. They have a very loyal and now upset and agry following.

Yes, those ship transfers are hard to follow. I bet Swan Hellenic's faithful following will miss their luxury vessel. I'm just wondering how they could do that to their clientle? Guess they got a deal they couldn't refuse.

**Ally** · 07-22-2006, 02:19 AM

Swan Hellenic is all part of CCL, Ken, so unfortunately I doubt anyone had any say in it. When CCL want to move a ship from one branch to another, they just go ahead and move it. I think its a real shame to lose the Swan Hellenic branding and style of cruising and I hope CCL have something to replace Minerva 2 with.