More Southampton sailings for Princess Cruises in 2021
Princess Cruises will sail nearly 500 days from Southampton in 2021, across three ships – Grand Princess, Island Princess and Crown Princess.
This represents a increase of 9% on 2020 and will be the cruise line’s longest UK season ever.
The 2,600-guest Grand Princess will sail 207 days from the UK from April to November, including six school holiday sailings across the season.
The ship will depart for the Mediterranean, northern Europe and Canada & New England, with several new voyages including a six-day school half term cruise in May to Guernsey (St. Peter Port), La Rochelle (for Cognac) and Bilbao.
The 2,200-guest Island Princess will spend a season sailing out of Southampton from June to October across northern Europe.
New sailings include a 10-day Oktoberfest European capitals cruise to Hamburg, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, Rotterdam and Brussels/Bruges (Zeebrugge)
The 3,080-guest Crown Princess will sail the British Isles from April to October on 14 Southampton sailings.
The ship will travel to destinations including Liverpool, Dublin, Orkney Islands (Kirkwall) and Edinburgh, with select itineraries offering overnight calls in port.
Princess Cruises’ two newest ships, Sky Princess and Enchanted Princess, will be based in northern and southern Europe respectively. This brings the total European cruise days up to almost 1,000.
Sky Princess will spend April to September sailing Scandinavia and Russia roundtrip from Copenhagen, visiting destinations including Tallinn, Oslo, Helsinki and Berlin (Warnemunde), and will offer overnight calls in St Petersburg.
Enchanted Princess, which will be named in Southampton at the end of June next year, will sail across the Mediterranean from April to October via Rome, Athens and Barcelona, taking in the likes of Mykonos, Santorini, Kotor, Florence and Istanbul.
Meanwhile Princess Cruises has confirmed that Crown Princess has become its fourth MedallionClass ship and the first UK-based ship to feature the OceanMedallion.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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