Princess Cruises has announced that Tahitian Princess will be renamed Ocean Princess in November 2009 to reflect her new global itineraries. The 30,277 GT ship was built in 1999 as Renaissance Cruises’ R Four and joined the Princess fleet in 2002. Originally based in Tahiti, she has recently ventured farther afield. Together with Pacific Princess [...]
Princess Cruises has announced that beginning in November 2008, the 77,441 GT, 1,950-berth Dawn Princess, built in 1997, will become its second ship based year-round in Australia. Her 1995-built sister Sun Princess already arrived in Australia this month to take up year-round residence there, but while Dawn was already scheduled to reposition to Australia next [...]
Carnival’s John Heald has kept his blog busy with interviews with Princess CEO Alan Buckelew - continuing his series of Carnival Corporation & plc Presidents and CEOs - and Cunard Commodore Bernie Warner along with a visit to Queen Victoria at Fincantieri’s Marghera yard in Venice. While the ship is of course still unfinished, John [...]
P&O Princess Cruises International CEO and Carnival Corporation & plc executive director Peter Ratcliffe has announced that he will retire as CEO of P&O Princess on his 60th birthday, 6 March 2008.
P&O Princess Cruises International is the largest division of Carnival Corporation & plc, encompassing the Cunard Line, Ocean Village, P&O Cruises, P&O [...]
Princess Cruises has announced that it will offer two world cruises in 2009, up from one in 2008 and none in 2007.
Tahitian Princess will depart Ft. Lauderdale for Dover on 14 January, and Royal Princess from Ft. Lauderdale for Civitavecchia on 20 January. Both cruises will have similar 107-day itineraries.
It is interesting that Pacific Princess, [...]
