Suite: A spacious suite with a balcony that’s focused on offering more living space. As Princess says about this suite, “exclusive doesn’t begin to describe the experience.” (Approximately 1,873 sq. You’ll have a 270-degree panorama throughout, and a balcony that’s over 1000 square feet in size. Sky Suite: Each Sky Suite can host up to five guests and you’ll also get a dedicated Suite Experience Manager. The ship was built by Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri. It comes in a little under 150,000 tonnes and a little over 1000 feet in length. In total, there are 19 decks and 1,830 guest cabins which can hold a maximum of 3,660 guests, with a maximum of 1,346 crew on board as well. The inaugural cruise for the Discovery Princess was March 27, 2022. Its ports of call are Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway (which is close to Glacier Bay National Park), Victoria, BC, and then back to Seattle. Key Details About the Discovery Princessįor reference, we took the 7-day Alaska Inside Passage Cruise from Seattle. The experience was ethereal and otherworldly, and I do feel as if our 7 night cruise offered us a diverse array of moments that enabled us to understand just what makes Alaska so special. Some mornings, we’d wake up, head out onto our balcony with a cup of coffee, and we’d watch the fog burn off only to reveal the town (and the nature surrounding the town) that we’d be exploring that day. It’s difficult to describe the rush that you get as you pull away from harbour surrounded by mountains, or as you dine, and look out the window only to see a picturesque, glacier lined shore skirting on by. It turned out that our hunch was very much correct. We knew it would be a nightmare to try to cover the amount of ground that we would via ship in a car in Alaska, and when we found out that the Discovery Princess, their newest ship, was covering that route, our eyes widened even further. We realized that, for us, a good cruise was about unique and unparalleled access to a location. With this set-up, I was able to plan out our days on shore, but we also had days at sea to relax and spend time together.įor one reason or another, the idea of an Alaska cruise continued to poke at us. We went with a cruise largely because we wanted our Honeymoon to be nice and easy and void of headaches (and because Bri was rather certain that, given the chance, I may over-plan our holiday, and turn our “vacation” into non-stop exploration). Our first cruise was with Princess about 4 years ago, and we were exploring the Caribbean. However, I began to realize that if I was going to be an expert in all things travel, it would be a mistake to totally ignore a large segment of the industry - cruising. For a long time, particularly when I was galavanting around Europe with little more than a backpack back in the day, I wrote off cruising as something that wasn’t for me.

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