More cruise attention will be paid to the West Coast, especially since Princess Cruises has announced new deployments through 2023 in San Francisco and San Diego, Calif., as well as Galveston, Texas.
"Returning a ship to San Diego gives more options for our West Coast guests, and Galveston makes a Princess cruise easily accessible to millions of Texans,” said John Padgett, president of Princess Cruises.
Returning a ship to San Diego gives more options for our West Coast guests, and Galveston makes a Princess cruise easily accessible to millions of Texans.
Beginning in September and going through February 2023, Diamond Princess will be based in San Diego, embarking on five- to 16-day Mexican Riviera, California Coast and Hawaiian Islands itineraries. There will even be a special 20-day voyage to Central America, roundtrip from San Diego in November 2022.
Meanwhile, Royal Princess will be positioned out of San Francisco for the 2022-2023 West Coast season starting in September 2022 following its Alaskan runs. The ship will also depart for Hawaii, Mexico and the California Coast.
Both Royal and Ruby Princess will homeport in San Francisco until Ruby repositions to Galveston for sailings from December 2022 to April 2023. From the Lone Star state, the ship will feature five- to 11-day cruises to the Western Caribbean, as well as a pair of 16-day trans-Panama Canal trips between Galveston and San Francisco.
Rounding out the Pacific fleet news, Coral Princess is set to return to Australia by June 2022.
"Deploying these three ships to service over the next two months will mark the return of the entire Princess fleet, once our highly anticipated return to Australia is approved by local authorities,” Padgett said.
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