Some news from Princess…43 South Pacific sailings in 2011-12, including a new 28-day Hawaii, Tahiti and South Pacific cruise aboard the Sapphire Princess. The round-trip voyage from Los Angeles departs October 22, 2011, with Hawaii stops at Hilo on the Big Island, Honolulu, Kauai and Maui. Samoa and French Polynesia calls will be Pago Pago, Apia, Bora Bora, Moorea and Papeete.
Both the Golden Princess and Sapphire Princess will sail from Los Angeles on 14-day, round-trip voyages to Hawaii with calls at Hilo, Honolulu, Kauai and Lahaina on Maui, plus Ensenada, Mexico. The ships will sail between next September 28 and April 25, 2012.
Several Tahiti cruises will be on the 680-passenger Ocean Princess, departing from Papeete and Honolulu. Furthermore, there will be South Pacific cruises departing from Australia (Sydney or Brisbane) on the Sun Princess, Dawn Princess and Sea Princess.
The cruise line has also announced that the Dawn Princess will again make a ’round-the-world cruise from Sydney next year. However, this time the voyage will sail westbound and last 104 nights, taking in 44 ports as far north as Bergen, Norway.
The voyage will depart on May 25, 2011 from Sydney and head for Singapore and Malaysia.Then the ship will head to India and Dubai, where it will spend three full days. Following visits to Jordan and Egypt, the Dawn will sail the Suez Canal en route to Israel, Greece, Turkey, Italy and France. Instead of Southampton, the principal UK port of call on previous voyages, it will call at Dover on its way to the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland and Ireland.
From Ireland, the Dawn Princess will be crossing the Atlantic, to Bermuda and Florida and — via Colombia — through the Panama Canal and on to Mexico and California. The final leg of the journey includes Hawaii, Tahiti and New Zealand before disembarkation in Sydney.
All for now.
