Princess Cruises preps for full Alaska season
With Canada announcing the safe resumption of cruising in Canadian ports, Princess Cruises has finalized programs and guest experiences for a full summer season of 2022 cruises and cruisetours to Alaska.
It also unveiled its popular summer and fall Canada and New England program.
The 2022 schedule features six ships, including the line’s newest ship, Discovery Princess.
Offerings include 12 unique itineraries, totalling 140 departures and five glacier-viewing experiences, with visits to the Southeast Alaska towns of Juneau, Skagway, and Ketchikan.
Princess sails to and from Vancouver on its popular ‘Voyage of the Glaciers’ seven-night cruises to and from Whittier, Alaska.
More than 20 cruisetour options feature a land tour visiting the Denali National Park and Princess Wilderness Lodges and include the ‘Voyage of the Glaciers’ cruise.
Alaska cruises sailing from Seattle and San Francisco visit Victoria, BC, along with various ports in Alaska towns dependent upon itinerary.
The first Princess cruise ship to visit Canada is Caribbean Princess, sailing on a four-day Pacific Coastal voyage, with a scheduled port stop in Victoria on 6 April, followed by Vancouver on 7 April .
For the May through September 2022 season, six Princess Cruises ships will sail from four west coast home ports – Seattle, Vancouver, B.C., Anchorage (Whittier) and San Francisco.
On Canada and New England voyages, Princess sails from Quebec and New York visiting popular Canadian ports, including Halifax, Saint John (for the Bay of Fundy), Sydney (Cape Breton Island) and Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island).
The 2022 season runs from July through October and features 16 departures and six unique itineraries on Enchanted Princess and Caribbean Princess.
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