Princess Announces Schedules for 2009-2010 Cruises to Caribbean and Mexican Riviera
In the Caribbean, Princess will sail six ships on 13 itineraries with 129 departures visiting more than 25 ports in these fabled islands. Ruby Princess will take over the line's 10-day Eastern and Southern Caribbean itineraries, offering some of the less-visited ports in the region. Emerald Princess sails on the line's Eastern Caribbean itinerary and Crown Princess will feature the Western Caribbean with an enhanced itinerary now featuring the lovely island of Roatan, Honduras. Caribbean Princess continues to sail on alternating seven-day Southern Caribbean sailings from San Juan. Grand Princess returns with an extensive 14-day Caribbean Collection route and Sea Princess will again sail on 14-day voyages from Barbados.
On the Pacific side, Princess again returns to its "south of the border" cruising roots with two ships - Sapphire Princess sailing on the classic seven-day Mexican Riviera route from Los Angeles and Star Princess cruising on 10-day voyages from San Francisco.
Princess Announces Schedules for 2009-2010 Cruises to Caribbean and Mexican Riviera
Sapphire Princess Photo Courtesy of Princess Cruises
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Regardless of the economy, cruising is here to stay. Not only are the cruise lines putting out schedules for 2009-2010, many are constructing new ships. More than 40 cruise vessels are under construction or on the books to be delivered from now through 2012.
Cruising is still the best value for money.
Sherry: Is there some way to find out from Princess WHY these changes were made? We are furious!!! First of all, one of the main reasons we chose this particular cruise is because it was stopping in St. Maarten. Secondly, Tortola doesn’t even compare to St. Maarten, so I feel we are getting less. And finally, the times they changed are ridiculous. Who wants to be on the islands until 10 and 11 at night???? Is this a scheme by Princess to save money because they hope people will be eating dinner on the islands instead of the ship? And from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Horrible! People are on vacation and may not want to be up and out by 7, but if they don’t they don’t get to see the island. This just went from a nice cruise to garbage! And when my sister called Princess they were completely ignorant to her. Maybe legally they can make changes as they wish, but what kind of business sense is that? I will never cruise on Princess again and intend to let everyone know what Princess did. I work in a huge law international firm with thousands of employees who cruise all the time. I will be putting something on our portal about this. Love to hear back from you.
Hi Jo Ann - I’m not sure which cruise you have booked with Princess, since the Princess press release I have linked to in the blog lists many different ships and cruises. However, cruise lines often change the ships and the itineraries each year to provide more variety for cruisers. I’m not much of a nighttime partier myself, but many people enjoy spending time ashore in the evening hours to try out the bars and clubs. Granted, sailing at 10 or 11 pm is not late for “night owls”, but they might see it as better than departing at 6 pm. One good thing for you - there are dozens of ships sailing the Caribbean and visiting the ports you are interested in. Some ships stay longer or have different departure times than Princess. If Princess doesn’t have a ship that fits your wishes, you should be able to find another cruise line/ship that does.