Sun Princess
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Sun Princess
The Sun 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 features modern cabins and themed spaces, including the Dome Sun Princess. It is designed for ocean cruise vacations combining immersive experiences, relaxation, and international travel. This ship is well suited for travelers seeking a contemporary cruise experience with innovative onboard spaces, diverse destinations, and a balance of leisure and discovery.
Itineraries of the Sun Princess
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decks plans
Deck - 15
Sun
Deck - 14
Lido
Deck - 12
Riviera
Deck - 11
Aloha
Deck - 10
Baja
Deck - 9
Caribe
Deck - 8
Dolphin
Deck - 7
Promenade
Deck - 6
Emerald
Deck - 5
Plaza
Deck - 4
Fiesta
Technical specifications
- Classe: Sun Class
- Tonnage: 77441
- Passengers: 2000
- Decks: 20
- Length: 261 m
- Width: 32 m
- Height: 56 m
History
- 2 décembre 1995: Croisière inaugurale
- 2018: Modernisation
- 2024: Année de construction
Frequently Asked Questions
Sun Princess measures 345 m long by 47 m wide, is measured at 177,882 gross tons and carries 20 decks, 16 of them open to guests. She sleeps 4,320 guests at double occupancy in 2,162 staterooms, served by roughly 1,550 crew. Fincantieri handed her over at Monfalcone on 14 February 2024, making her the largest ship ever built in Italy for Princess and the biggest in the fleet. Do not confuse her with the 1995 Sun Princess, a 77,000-ton ship that left the fleet in 2020 and now sails as Pacific World.
Both numbers are correct because they measure different things. Double occupancy, 4,320, assumes two people per stateroom and it is the figure behind every brochure statistic and every space-per-guest ratio. Maximum capacity, 5,189, is reached when sofa beds and upper berths are filled by third and fourth guests, which happens mostly during school breaks and holiday weeks. On those departures the lines at World Fresh Marketplace, at the elevators and on the pool deck are noticeably longer than the official ratio suggests.
Sun Princess is the first Princess ship powered by liquefied natural gas, using dual-fuel engines that also burn marine diesel oil. LNG virtually eliminates sulphur oxides and fine particulates and sharply cuts nitrogen oxides, which makes a real difference to air quality alongside in ports such as Barcelona and Fort Lauderdale. The honest caveats are three: LNG is still a fossil fuel, dual-fuel engines release unburned methane whose warming effect far exceeds that of CO2, and the net climate gain is modest rather than dramatic. There is also a logistics reality, since LNG bunkering is not available in every port and the ship therefore runs on marine diesel for part of her itineraries. Calling this a green cruise would be dishonest; calling her locally cleaner and somewhat less carbon-intensive than a fuel-oil ship is accurate.
Sun Princess spends the 2026 season in the Mediterranean, rotating among three homeports, Barcelona, Civitavecchia-Rome and Piraeus-Athens, on 8, 15 and 22-day loops. She leaves Europe in late October on transatlantic crossings, a 23-day sailing from Piraeus on 24 October and a 16-day sailing from Barcelona on 31 October, both bound for Fort Lauderdale. From November 2026 she runs Caribbean round trips out of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. A Montreal client aiming at summer 2026 buys a flight to Europe; one aiming at December buys a flight to Florida.
In 2027 Sun Princess opens the year in the Caribbean from Fort Lauderdale through mid-March, crosses to Europe between 28 March and 11 April, runs the Mediterranean season from April to October out of Barcelona, Civitavecchia-Rome and Piraeus, then sails west again on 31 October and resumes Caribbean departures from 7 November. For the Florida sailings, Montreal to Fort Lauderdale is a nonstop of roughly 3 h 30 and the cruise terminal sits about twenty minutes from the airport. For the Mediterranean, nonstops from Montreal to Barcelona, Rome and Athens do exist but they are seasonal and cluster roughly between May and October, so an April or late-October departure almost always means a European connection. Bear in mind too that Civitavecchia is about 80 km from Rome-Fiumicino, a transfer of just over an hour, which argues for a night in Rome before embarkation.
The Sanctuary Collection gathers 215 staterooms aft on decks 15 and 16, comprising 80 suites, 123 mini-suites and 12 premium deluxe balconies, with reserved access to the Sanctuary Restaurant on deck 8 aft, the Sanctuary Club and an adult pool away from the deck 17 crowds. The Signature Collection covers the top suites, in the Signature, Sky, Owner's and Penthouse categories, with their own Signature Restaurant and the Signature Lounge on decks 15 and 16; the aft corner suites on those decks are the ones whose rounded balconies cantilever out over the wake. The Reserve Collection applies to mini-suites, including the deck 9 Cabana staterooms that pair a veranda with a large outdoor patio lounge on two private cabana decks. The 100 Cove Balcony staterooms have balconies recessed into the hull, low to the water and sheltered from wind, with a view partly framed by the shell plating. For a first sailing without a suite budget, a standard balcony amidships on deck 11 or 12 gives the best balance of steadiness, quiet and walking distance.
The heart of the ship is the three-storey Piazza on decks 7 to 9, whose fully glazed facade opens onto the sea, a clean break from the enclosed, windowless atrium of the Royal class; it houses Coffee Currents, the International Café, Bellini's, Crooners and Good Spirits at Sea. Above it, the Sphere that gives the class its name is a geodesic glass dome spanning decks 17 and 18 forward: a pool under glass with loungers by day, then an aerial circus stage and candlelight concerts by night once the pool is covered. On the dining side, the main dining room runs across three decks and splits into two rooms, Soleil on deck 6 and Eclipse on deck 7, the World Fresh Marketplace buffet occupies deck 9, and the extra-charge venues include Crown Grill on deck 7 aft, The Butcher's Block by Dario, Sabatini's, Makoto Ocean, The Catch by Rudi, Umai Teppanyaki and the 68-seat Love by Britto on deck 17. Shows play in the Princess Arena, a two-deck theatre seating more than 1,000 whose stage reconfigures for each production, with in-house creations such as Fiera and Viva La Música, while Spellbound by Magic Castle runs close-up illusions in a 30-seat room on deck 8. Outside, Park19 tops decks 19 and 20 with The Lookout, The Net, the cantilevered Infinite Horizon platform, a splash zone, a sports court and a 240 m jogging track.
Three complaints surfaced in 2024 and deserve to be said out loud. Circulation comes first: the Piazza and the restaurants are concentrated amidships, elevators jam at peak hours, and there is no exterior promenade that wraps the whole ship, so guests lack the usual escape route when the central spaces fill up. Dining comes second: the three-deck main dining room worked poorly at launch, to the point that Princess reshuffled several restaurants as early as September 2024, moving Crown Grill to deck 7 aft, installing The Butcher's Block by Dario in its former space and relocating The Catch by Rudi; the share of paid venues remains high, O'Malley's is à la carte, and a guest who sticks to what is included has fewer options than on a Royal-class ship. The pool deck comes third: the three pools on deck 17 are modest for 4,320 guests, shade is scarce, and the only genuinely calm pool sits in the Sanctuary, reserved for that collection's staterooms. One promise also went unmet: the Rollglider and the Coastal Climb ropes course announced for Park19 never opened and were removed before the ship moved to the Caribbean.
The cruise fare covers the stateroom, meals in the Soleil and Eclipse main dining rooms, the World Fresh Marketplace buffet, the International Café, shows in the Princess Arena, the deck 17 pools and whirlpools, the fitness centre, the youth clubs and basic room service. Charged separately are the specialty restaurants such as Crown Grill, Sabatini's, Makoto Ocean, The Catch by Rudi, Umai Teppanyaki, The Butcher's Block by Dario and Love by Britto, along with alcoholic and soft drinks, MedallionNet Wi-Fi, shore excursions, the Lotus Spa, laundry and the casino. Princess sells two fare bundles, Princess Plus and Princess Premier, which package some of those paid items; they are worth buying only if the guest genuinely consumes what is inside them. Access to the Sanctuary Club and the Signature Lounge depends on stateroom category and cannot be purchased on its own.
Princess adds a daily crew appreciation charge to every guest's MedallionClass account, children included, for the full length of the cruise. The daily amount varies by stateroom type, from interior and oceanview through balcony, mini-suite and suite, with the Sanctuary and Signature categories falling under the highest tier. A separate service charge applies to each drink bought at a bar, whether at Crooners, at Bellini's or at the deck 18 Sanctuary Bar. These charges can be prepaid before departure, can come bundled inside Princess Plus and Premier, or can be adjusted at the guest services desk during the cruise.
Princess offers two levels: the package inside Princess Plus, which allows up to 15 alcoholic drinks per day under a value ceiling per glass, and the Princess Premier package, whose ceiling is higher and which sets no daily limit. The package works everywhere on board, from the Piazza to deck 19, so at Bellini's, Crooners, the Wheelhouse Bar, O'Malley's and the pool bars, and it also covers specialty coffees, juices, soft drinks and bottled water. It excludes full bottles of wine served in restaurants, vintages above the ceiling and anything bought ashore during port calls. Each adult may carry one 750 ml bottle of wine or sparkling wine aboard at embarkation, free to drink in the stateroom; opened in a restaurant, it attracts a corkage charge.
Yes, through MedallionNet, the Princess satellite network, available in staterooms, in the Piazza, under the Sphere and all the way up to Park19 on deck 19. Access is sold by the day or for the whole cruise, and it is bundled into Princess Plus for one device and into Princess Premier for up to four. The connection handles video calls and streaming under normal conditions, but it turns patchy in mid-Atlantic, which matters directly for Sun Princess's 16 and 23-day crossings in late October. Anyone who must stay reachable for work should plan around that drop rather than count on it.
Yes, with clubs split by age: Firefly Park on deck 6 for the youngest, Neon Grove on deck 7 for tweens and The Underground, also on deck 7, for teenagers. Outdoors, Park19 offers The Net, The Lookout, the Infinite Horizon platform and a splash zone, keeping in mind that the Rollglider zip ride and the ropes course originally announced never opened on this ship. Accommodation follows suit: roughly 1,518 balcony staterooms sleep three or four thanks to sofa beds, and about a hundred connecting staterooms let a large family spread out side by side. Princess sets a minimum age of 6 months to sail, raised to 12 months on transatlantic crossings such as the October runs from Piraeus or Barcelona to Fort Lauderdale.
Princess runs the Captain's Circle, whose tiers are Gold, Ruby, Platinum and Elite, earned through the number of cruises completed or the number of days spent at sea. Benefits build tier by tier: priority embarkation at Port Everglades or Barcelona, members-only receptions, laundry benefits and internet credit at the upper levels. Sun Princess's long crossings raise status faster than a Caribbean week, since the 23-day Piraeus to Fort Lauderdale transatlantic banks a great many sea days in a single booking. Status is also recognised across some Carnival Corporation brands, which matters to a client already loyal with Holland America.
Rarely: at 177,882 gross tons and 345 m, with active stabilisers, the ship handles the short chop of the Mediterranean and the Caribbean well. The steadiest staterooms sit amidships on the lower decks, roughly decks 8 to 11; the aft suites on decks 15 and 16, like the most forward staterooms, move more. The stretches to watch on this particular ship are the Gulf of Lion at the start and end of the Mediterranean season, and above all the late-October crossings, where several days of open ocean without a port call can turn rough. The Sphere and the glazed Piazza give a visible horizon from indoors, which helps sensitive guests a great deal; patches and tablets are sold at the ship's medical centre, though bringing your own from Montreal is wiser.
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