These are the cabins you stay in when you’re on a tight budget. Avant-garde style is not a Princess thing.
Its rooms are comfortable and functional, but a bit bland. When it comes to rooms, Princess is sort of the Marriott of the big-ship cruise world. The mid-priced “middle” cabins sell last.ĭesign-wise, Princess’s cabins and suites are fairly basic and comfortable, if not super stylish. An old saying in the cruise industry is that “ships sell from the top and the bottom.” That is, the first cabins on any vessel to sell out are the most expensive cabins, which are the suites, and then the least expensive cabins, which typically are the inside cabins. Note, also, that suites tend to sell out early on cruise ships in general. Just note that you’ll want to book early if you’re aiming for a suite on a Princess ship since there are so few of them. The takeaway here is that you’ll have an easier time locking down a balcony cabin on a Princess ship - even an older Princess ship - than you will when booking many of the ships operated by competing big-ship lines. A breakdown of the cabin categories on that ship:īalcony cabins (including mini-suites): 719 (72%) On Coral Princess, inside cabins and ocean-view cabins only make up 26% of all rooms.
An impressive 72% of the 1,000 cabins on Princess’s 2003-built Coral Princess, for instance, are balcony cabins. However, the ratio of balcony cabins to non-balcony cabins is much higher on older Princess ships than it is on older vessels at many other big-ship lines.
On older Princess ships (and, in general, all older cruise ships), there are fewer balcony cabins. Here’s a breakdown of the broad cabin categories on Royal Princess, which is typical of the line’s newer ships (it’s the prototype vessel for the line’s new, six-ship Royal Class series):īalcony cabins (including mini-suites): 1,402 (79%) Related: The ultimate guide to Princess Cruises shipsĪt the same time, as noted above, Princess vessels have fewer suites than you’ll find on the ships operated by such big-ship brands as Royal Caribbean and Celebrity. It’s more common with luxury cruise vessels. That’s relatively unusual in the world of big mass-market ships - the niche of cruising in which Princess plays. These three vessels are completely devoid of ocean-view cabins (cabins facing the sea that only have a window). Notably, every single cabin facing the sea on three of the newest Princess ships - Royal Princess, Regal Princess and Majestic Princess - has a balcony. Compare that to the 72% of cabins on Royal Caribbean’s four-year-old Symphony of the Seas that are balcony cabins or suites with balconies. About 80% of the 1,834 cabins on Princess’s six-month-old Enchanted Princess are balcony cabins or suites with balconies, for instance. A Princess Cruises cabin primerĪs is typical for many cruise ships, Princess vessels offer cabins in four broad categories: Windowless “inside” cabins, ocean-view cabins, balcony cabins and suites.Īs noted above, a significant portion of cabins on all Princess ships are balcony cabins - the category of cabin that everyone wants these days. That said, on Princess ships, you can often create larger living spaces by booking two connecting cabins. Until the debut of Sky Princess in 2019, the line didn’t have a single cabin that could accommodate more than four people. What this means is there aren’t a lot of ways to live large on a Princess ship or pack a lot of people into a single accommodation.
Princess also isn’t known for enormous and amenity-filled suites. Believe it or not, that’s an improvement from earlier vessels in the same series, some of which have as few as 36 suites.įor more cruise guides, news and tips, sign up for TPG’s cruise newsletter. Just 46 of the 1,830 rooms on the line’s recently unveiled Discovery Princess are suites, for instance. On the flip side, Princess offers relatively few suites on its ships compared to some of the big-ship lines with which it most directly competes, including Celebrity Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean. The California-based brand was a pioneer in adding a large number of balcony cabins to ships, and even its oldest vessels are loaded with balcony cabins - something that can’t be said for many of its rivals. Is a balcony cabin a must for you when you cruise? Princess Cruises could be your line.
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