Royal Princess
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Royal Princess
The Royal Princess is a Princess Cruises ship offering itineraries in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Europe. It provides an all-inclusive cruise experience focused on luxury, families, and couples, featuring onboard gastronomy, spa facilities, entertainment, and organized shore excursions. The ship offers a range of cabin categories and ocean cruise vacations. Onboard experiences include open-air cinema and leisure activities in an international cruise setting. This ship is well suited for travelers seeking a modern and versatile cruise experience combining diverse destinations, onboard relaxation, and a balanced mix of leisure and exploration.
Itineraries of the Royal Princess
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decks plans
Deck - 19
Sky
Deck - 18
Sports
Deck - 17
Sun
Deck - 16
Lido
Deck - 15
Marina
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
Specific needs
- Wheelchair accessible staterooms
Technical specifications
- Classe: Royal Class
- Tonnage: 142299
- Speed: 22.0 knots
- Passengers: 3560
- Decks: 18
- Length: 330 m
- Height: 66 m
History
- 2013: Année de construction
- 16 juin 2013: Croisière inaugurale
- 2018: Année de rénovation
Frequently Asked Questions
Royal Princess measures 142,714 GT, 330 m long and 38.4 m wide, over 19 numbered decks of which 15 are open to guests. She carries 3,560 guests at double occupancy in 1,780 cabins, 81% of them with a balcony, looked after by a crew of 1,346. That works out to roughly 40 tons of volume per guest, against about 36 on a Grand-class Caribbean Princess, so the Royal class genuinely bought space per person. Princess publishes 142,229 GT on its own spec sheet, a gap of under 0.4% with the registry figure.
Both numbers are correct and they measure different things. The 3,560 figure is double occupancy, two people per cabin, and it underpins every density calculation you will read. The roughly 4,270 figure counts every upper berth and sofa bed in use, which happens in July, over March break and at Christmas. Those extra 700 people show up at the World Fresh Marketplace and on the deck 16 pool deck at lunchtime, not in the corridors. When a brochure tells you a ship is "half full," ask which of the two numbers the claim is built on.
She is the lead ship, delivered in 2013, and she introduced the SeaWalk: an 18 m glass-floored walkway cantilevered out over open water on deck 17 starboard, with the SkyLight Bar as its mirror image to port. Regal Princess and Majestic Princess inherited that pairing; Sky Princess, Enchanted Princess and Discovery Princess lost it. What Royal Princess lacks is equally telling: no Sky Suites, no The Catch by Rudi, and none of the newer pizzerias, since hers is still called Prego with the Trident Grill beside the pool. She is the oldest hull in the class and the fit-out shows it.
She spent summer 2026 in Alaska out of Seattle on 8-day round trips to Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay, Ketchikan and Victoria, a season that closes on 12 September. On 19 September she leaves North America on long crossings to Asia: 16 days Seattle to Tokyo, or 28 days Seattle to Singapore. She then goes into drydock in Singapore from 16 October to 1 November 2026 for routine maintenance and class inspections. She comes out for Southeast Asia and then Australia, with Brisbane and Sydney as her end-of-year home ports.
Two worlds with the Pacific between them. From January to March 2027 she is based in Sydney for Australia and New Zealand, then repositions north in late March on long one-ways, 20 days Sydney to Honolulu or 26 days Sydney to Los Angeles. From May to September 2027 she is back in Seattle running the same 8-day Alaska pattern. In practical terms: Seattle is a nonstop from Montréal, Sydney means a connection through Vancouver or California and 22 to 26 hours door to door, and you lose a calendar day westbound crossing the date line. Fly in at least two days before a Sydney embarkation, never the night before.
A Deluxe Balcony midship on deck 10 Caribe or deck 11 Baja. The balcony is the same size as a standard one, but you get two armchairs and a footstool instead of a single chair, and you sit at the ship's centre of motion. The category codes worth giving your advisor are D4, DA and DB for Deluxe Balcony, BA and BB for standard balcony, MA and MB for mini-suites. Deck 8 Emerald holds several balcony categories partly blocked by hull structure, which is good value and a compromised view. The four aft suites carry names, Kauai and Hilo on deck 9, Sydney and Auckland on deck 8, and they give you the best balcony on the ship for an Alaskan fjord morning.
The Piazza, a three-deck atrium, is the ship's centre of gravity, with the 24-hour International Café, Vines, Bellini's and Crooners all opening onto it. Main dining rooms are Symphony, Concerto and Allegro; the buffet is World Fresh Marketplace; the included pizzeria is Alfredo's, with Prego up on the pool deck. Extra-charge tables are Crown Grill, Sabatini's, the Ocean Terrace seafood bar, Crab Shack and Chef's Table Lumiere. For attractions: the SeaWalk and SkyLight Bar on deck 17, the adults-only Sanctuary, The Enclave thermal suite at Lotus Spa, the Princess Theater, the Princess Live studio, Vista Lounge, the Wheelhouse Bar and Movies Under the Stars above the pool.
Start with the outdoor promenade. Deck 7 is called Promenade but it is almost entirely indoors, filled with the theatre, shops, Crooners and Crown Grill; you cannot walk a full outdoor lap of the ship, and the walking track has been pushed all the way up to deck 18 among the sports cages. Balconies are narrower than on the Grand class, and the aft staterooms are stepped, so the guest on the deck above looks straight down onto yours. Deck 16 gets dense on sea days, loungers disappear early, and the one space where you can actually breathe, The Sanctuary, carries a fee. Add that the ship is thirteen years old, that her last significant drydock was December 2018, and that the next one lands in October 2026.
The base fare covers your cabin, the Symphony, Concerto and Allegro dining rooms, the World Fresh Marketplace buffet, the International Café, Alfredo's pizzeria, the Trident Grill, Swirls ice cream, Princess Theater productions, Movies Under the Stars, the pools and the fitness centre. Extra: alcohol and specialty coffees, Wi-Fi, crew appreciation, shore excursions, valet laundry, The Sanctuary, The Enclave, and tables such as Crown Grill, Sabatini's and Ocean Terrace. Princess bundles some of this into two packages, Princess Plus and Princess Premier. Your AquaTerra advisor will work out whether either one earns its keep for the way you actually travel: 1-866-628-6241.
They are not part of the base fare. Princess posts a daily Crew Appreciation charge to your onboard account, scaled to stateroom category, plus a service percentage on each bar order. It is prepaid if you book Princess Plus or Princess Premier. On an 8-day Alaska round trip from Seattle that is eight days of the charge per person, and the gap between a bare fare and a bundled one very often comes down to exactly that. Have the arithmetic done before you book rather than at the final statement.
Princess does not sell a standalone drink package; it sells two bundles. Princess Plus covers fifteen drinks a day under a set per-drink ceiling, unlimited specialty coffees and teas, bottled water, one connected device, a few casual dining meals and prepaid crew appreciation. Princess Premier lifts the daily count, raises the per-drink ceiling, adds four devices, unlimited specialty dining, digital photos, a reserved theatre section and a shore excursion credit. On this ship your natural stops are Crooners and Vines in the Piazza, the Wheelhouse Bar on deck 7 and the SkyLight Bar on deck 17. Whether the bundle pays off depends on what you genuinely drink: 1-866-628-6241.
The Medallion is a quarter-sized disc worn on your wrist, around your neck or dropped in a pocket, and it replaces the cabin card. It unlocks your door as you approach, acts as your payment method with photo verification, speeds boarding, and lets you order food or drinks through OceanNow wherever you are, including out on the SeaWalk or beside the deck 16 pool. MedallionNet Wi-Fi is among the best at sea, fast enough for video calls, and it remains an extra outside the packages. The irritants are real: you have to install the app and clear the pre-cruise formalities before you travel, the disc tracks your position on board because that is what makes delivery work, having the Medallion mailed home in advance is chargeable while picking it up at the pier is not, and guests who are uneasy with a smartphone end up leaning on whoever sits beside them.
Adequate rather than exciting. The youth spaces sit together on deck 17: one room for ages 3 to 7, another for 8 to 12, and the Remix Lounge & Disco for 13 to 17, with its own hot tub and outdoor terrace. There are pools, a giant screen and a games room, but no water slide, no ropes course and no go-kart track. On an 8-day Alaska sailing in July you will see families; on the 28-day Seattle to Singapore crossing in September, your teenager will be close to the only one aboard.
It starts paying at the third tier. Gold arrives after your first cruise, Ruby after three cruises or thirty cruise days, Platinum after five cruises or fifty days, Elite after fifteen cruises or a hundred and fifty. Credit is counted by number of cruises as well as by days, which favours shorter sailings, and booking a suite or travelling solo earns double. Three 8-day Alaska round trips on Royal Princess will hand you Ruby on the cruise count long before the day count catches up. The benefits that change your week show up at Platinum: complimentary self-service laundry, priority embarkation and disembarkation, and a better internet allowance.
Unlikely in Alaska. The Inside Passage runs in sheltered water behind the islands, and a 330 m hull with stabilizers barely registers it. Two moments call for care: the run out into the Gulf of Alaska when the itinerary reaches Glacier Bay from open water, and above all the long Pacific crossings of September 2026 and March 2027, which keep you in open ocean for days at a time. If you are sensitive, choose a midship cabin on a low deck, deck 8 Emerald or deck 9 Dolphin, rather than forward on deck 15, and start the tablets before you sail.
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