Crown Princess
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Crown Princess
The Crown Princess is a Princess Cruises ship offering itineraries in the Caribbean, Europe, Alaska, Mexico, Panama, and on transatlantic routes. It provides an all-inclusive cruise experience focused on luxury, gastronomy, wellness, and entertainment. It features the MedallionClass system, the Princess Theater, Skywalkers Nightclub, and an outdoor cinema. The ship caters to both family and adult travelers seeking a premium cruise experience combining comfort, onboard variety, and diverse global itineraries.
Itineraries of the Crown Princess
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decks plans
Deck - 19
Star
Deck - 18
Sky
Deck - 17
Sports
Deck - 16
Sun
Deck - 15
Lido
Deck - 14
Riviera
Deck - 12
Aloha
Deck - 11
Baja
Deck - 10
Caribe
Deck - 9
Dolphin
Deck - 8
Emerald
Deck - 7
Promenade
Deck - 6
Fiesta
Deck - 5
Plaza
Deck - 4
Gala
Ship's attributes
Services And Amenities
- Elevators
- Self-service laundry room
- Casino
- Jacuzzi
- Pool
- Beauty salon
- Spa & body care
Specific needs
- Wheelchair accessible staterooms
Technical specifications
- Classe: Caribbean Class
- Tonnage: 113561
- Speed: 22.0 knots
- Passengers: 3080
- Decks: 18
- Length: 288 m
- Width: 48 m
History
- 2006: Année de construction
- 14 juin 2006: Croisière inaugurale
- 2018: Modernisation
- 2022: Année de rénovation
Frequently Asked Questions
113,561 gross tons, 288.6 metres long, 36 metres wide, 15 passenger decks and 1,531 staterooms. It carries 3,062 guests at double occupancy, up to 3,674 with every upper berth in use, and a crew of 1,200. It is the first ship of the Crown sub-class: two more decks than the 1998 Grand Princess on a hull of the same length. Of the 1,108 outside staterooms, four in five have a balcony, which was generous in 2006 and remains respectable today.
Yes, and it was resolved long ago. On 18 July 2006, shortly after leaving Port Canaveral, the second officer disengaged the autopilot and a manual steering correction rolled the ship hard to starboard, throwing pool water into interior spaces. The US NTSB found human error, not a hull design fault. Sources differ on the scale: the American report cites a list of up to 24 degrees with fourteen seriously injured and 284 with minor injuries, while other accounts give 18 degrees and roughly 250 injured. The ship was repaired, steering procedures were rewritten, and there has been no repeat in twenty years of service.
It is the eldest of the Crown sub-class and the most recently freshened of the four. Unlike Grand Princess it never had a nightclub hanging over the stern: its Skywalkers Disco sits forward of the funnel, the layout Emerald and Ruby also use. It also still has Sabatini's, the Italian restaurant that Emerald and Ruby replaced with Curtis Stone's Share. The November 2025 drydock in Singapore turned the Wheelhouse Bar into a 134-seat O'Malley's Irish Pub & Sports Bar, redesigned Gatsby's Casino and replaced the Internet Café with an EFFY lounge and jewellery boutique. Before that, the March–April 2018 refit in Freeport added the Salty Dog Grill, Slice, Coffee & Cones, The Mix, the Club Class Mini-Suite category, Princess Luxury Beds, the Camp Discovery centre and the Medallion rollout.
Mostly a long way from North America. It spent spring and summer 2026 on a 115-day world cruise that left Auckland on 6 May and Sydney on 10 May, with a two-day call at the Port of Québec on 18 and 19 July, returning 29 August. It then runs Australian itineraries from Sydney in September and October, repositions Sydney to Los Angeles in the fall, and sails a 17-day one-way Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale from 3 December. In short, Crown Princess has no settled North American homeport in 2026 until December.
Three seasons, three homeports. January to March it runs Caribbean loops from San Juan, Puerto Rico and Bridgetown, Barbados; April to September it works Alaska from Vancouver and Whittier after a Panama Canal transit; October to December it operates out of Los Angeles. For a Montreal client that is close to ideal: San Juan is served nonstop from Montreal-Trudeau in the winter season, Vancouver year-round in about five and a half hours, and Los Angeles nonstop as well. Two caveats: Bridgetown usually needs a connection, and any Caribbean embarkation means flying in the day before — a January storm over Montreal can cost you the ship, and a same-day flight is not realistically insurable.
Deck 10 Caribe for space, decks 11 Baja and 12 Aloha for privacy. Standard balconies on Crown Princess run about four square metres, except on Caribe deck where they exceed eight because the deck above is set back — and that same setback is what makes them visible from deck 11. Mini-suites occupy decks 8 Emerald and 9 Dolphin, including the Club Class Mini-Suite category introduced in 2018, which adds a reserved dining room section and enhanced stateroom service. A two-bedroom family suite for six sits forward on deck 9. Watch the outside cabins on decks 5 and 8: some have views blocked by a lifeboat, and the deck plan says so plainly.
Three main dining rooms — Michelangelo, Da Vinci and Botticelli — two buffets, Horizon Court and Café Caribe, and two extra-charge tables, Crown Grill and Sabatini's. Daytime counters include the Salty Dog Grill, Slice, Trident Grill, Prego and Coffee & Cones. For bars: Vines and Crooners in the Piazza, Adagio, The Mix, Outrigger and Tradewinds by the pools, the Speakeasy, and since the 2025 drydock O'Malley's Irish Pub & Sports Bar. Beyond that: the two-level Princess Theater, Club Fusion, Skywalkers Disco, the Calypso Reef and Neptune's Reef pools, Movies Under the Stars, The Sanctuary adults-only deck by paid reservation, the Lotus Spa, Gatsby's Casino and the Camp Discovery youth centre.
Density, above all. At 3,674 guests instead of 3,062, that is over six hundred extra people using the same lifts, the same buffet and the same theatre, and you feel it at gangway time in port and at breakfast. The hull is twenty years old: tight stateroom bathrooms, limited storage, few power outlets. Replacing the Wheelhouse Bar with O'Malley's in 2025 upset regulars who considered it the ship's one quiet evening room. Add the tiered lower-deck balconies, a Sanctuary that is small and charged for, and the absence of everything Royal class introduced: no SeaWalk, no glass dome, no three-storey atrium with a water feature.
The base fare covers your stateroom, the Michelangelo, Da Vinci and Botticelli dining rooms, the Horizon Court and Café Caribe buffets, Princess Theater shows, the pools, the gym and the self-service launderettes. Billed separately: alcohol and specialty coffees, Wi-Fi, the daily service charge, shore excursions, The Sanctuary, the Lotus Spa, Crown Grill and Sabatini's. Princess folds the first three into its Princess Plus and Princess Premier bundles. The math on an 8-day Caribbean loop from San Juan does not come out the same as on a 15-day Alaska run from Vancouver: 1-866-628-6241.
No. Princess applies an automatic daily charge, Crew Appreciation, posted to your onboard account and scaled to whether you are in an inside, balcony or suite category; it is billed per person, including children sharing the cabin. Princess Plus and Princess Premier both cover it. A service amount is also added to every drink taken at O'Malley's, Crooners or the pool bar. You can have the charge adjusted at the passenger services desk, but stateroom and dining crew are partly paid through this mechanism — know what you are doing before you change it.
It is only sold inside the Princess Plus and Princess Premier bundles, never on its own. Princess Plus allows fifteen drinks a day under a per-drink ceiling and adds specialty coffees, juices, soft drinks and bottled water; Princess Premier removes the daily cap and raises the ceiling. Both also include Wi-Fi and the service charge. Your usual stops on board will be Vines and Crooners in the Piazza, O'Malley's Irish Pub, Adagio and the Tradewinds bar beside the Neptune's Reef pool. The bundle applies to the whole cruise and to every adult in the same stateroom, with no exceptions: 1-866-628-6241.
Crown Princess went MedallionClass during its 2018 refit, receiving the full technology at the same time as its new dining counters. The Medallion is a contactless token you carry: it opens the stateroom door as you approach, replaces your credit card on board, lets you order a drink delivered anywhere on the ship, and acts as your boarding pass, which genuinely shortens the queue in San Juan or Vancouver. It also locates you, which is how it finds your travel companions on a deck plan; sharing that with other guests can be switched off in the app. What annoys: the Princess app has to be completed before departure, photo and documents included, and it still crashes; the wearable accessories are sold separately; and poolside delivery slows noticeably in late afternoon when everyone orders at once. MedallionNet Wi-Fi is among the best at sea, fine for video calls, with one device per person on Princess Plus and four priority devices on Princess Premier.
Better equipped than the average Princess ship, without being a family ship. The 2018 refit gave it the Camp Discovery centre, supervised in age bands from 3 to 17 and free during the day, with a Youth Center that has a paddling pool and outdoor play areas plus a separate Teen Center. There are no water slides, no water park and no carousel: the ship's entertainment aims at adults. An 8-day Caribbean loop from San Juan over school break will have children aboard; a 17-day transpacific crossing will have almost none. The daily service charge applies to them too.
It becomes tangible at Platinum. The tiers are Gold on your first cruise, Ruby at three cruises or thirty days, Platinum at five cruises or fifty days, Elite at fifteen cruises or 150 days, whichever of the two counts takes you further. Ruby opens a Wi-Fi reduction; Platinum adds complimentary laundry, priority embarkation and a shore excursion reduction; Elite adds dry cleaning, a mini-bar setup and a Lotus Spa treatment. Status is per person and is not shared between spouses. A world cruise or a transpacific on this ship jumps two tiers at once, where three 8-day San Juan sailings move you one.
Rarely on these itineraries. Eastern Caribbean loops from San Juan and Bridgetown run in generally calm water over short hops, and the Panama Canal transit happens in enclosed water. At 113,561 gross tons with stabilizers the ship absorbs swell well, and the Alaska season mostly uses the Inside Passage. The livelier stretches are the fall 2026 transpacific reposition and the Pacific run south from Los Angeles toward Central America. If you are sensitive, book midship on deck 8 Emerald or 9 Dolphin rather than forward on deck 12 Aloha.
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