Changes EVERYONE Cruising with Princess in 2025 Needs To Know About!
Princess passengers must know these 5 important points if you are sailing in 2025 or even during the rest of 2024. Princess Cruises has announced numerous changes to Princess Plus and Princess Premier as well as Sanctuary Collection onboard Sun Princess and Star Princess. These changes along with promises made by Carnival Corporation to investors mean that savvy passengers who know what to expect will have a better cruising experience. Follow along for our tips, tricks and observations for 2025 and beyond. It’s all here for you, we’re your source for the latest cruise news, cruise vlogs and cruise reviews! #princesscruisedining
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0:00 Introduction
1:10 Overbooking & Sell-Outs
1:48 Book Early
2:20 No Incentive for Sales
3:40 Princess Plus price increase
4:50 Guarantee Cabins
6:17 Specialty Dining
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With all the changes and price increases…I'm gonna start moving away from Princess. I'm starting to get the feeling that they are trying to squeeze every Nickle out of my pocket instead of me concentrating on a nice relaxing cruise.
Do you know why Princess's webside alway "Technical Difficulties" I'm a customer of Princess try to sign-in but could'nt. Thanks for find out and re-ply to me.
Princess does have the best packages at this point. Thanks for the updates.
Re your comment regarding when reservations open for dining, we are Platinum, our cruise us not til May 2025 but we reserved dining in both MDR and Crown Grill for our party of 9 when we're still over 300 days out.
Ships of all major cruise lines are filing up and many are selling out. Booked a fall 2025 transatlantic last month, friends are booking now and few balcony cabins are left. Prices have gone up and people are still booking.
Your comments is not "my style"….. it's interesting though
I read in another group that the Elite minibar setup has changed from the mini bottles to a mixed drink concoction with fewer drinks.
Every single change is simply to discourage the ‘Standard’ fare passenger… every single one without exception! Raise item prices to the sky and add it back in for free with a package is clear and transparent as possible… Princess is determined to remove standard fares completely. Whatever you do have a great cruise. Blessings, John
For people who drink alcohol, not for water, coffee and 1 coke per day.
I just booked my first cruise for Thanksgiving and I’m stoked. I got the premiere package for all the perks. I’m having issues trying to book dinner reservations on the app it keeps showing $45 each which should be zero for premiere
Your information is excellent without drama.
We booked a Sanctuary Collection cabin on the Star Princess in early 2026 and we are both Elite. Able to book specialty dining as soon as one booked and paid the deposit is UNTRUE. AS at this moment, we are unable to book specialty dining. We sincerely hope that we would not run into the fiasco similar to our last Oceania cruise!
If you’re doing a cruisetour, do they only charge you the plus premier charges during the cruise portion of your vacation? Also, is it cheaper to book a cruise and then add on your shore part?
Princess is switching from the Love Boat to the Hate Boat.
The only change I need to know about is when Princess finally throws the Medallion overboard.
My family and I will be sailing on a Princess Coral Cruise ship to Alaska in the Summer of 2025. Our trip has been booked. Really looking forward to it, so thank you for this video!
Love Princess.
I always book my sailing as soon as they open and have always been able to book dining right away. On my most recent booking, that’s over 700 days in advance.
We are currently on the Discovery Princess, and the app doesn’t work very well. We ordered two drinks and they never arrived.😮. Service is extremely slow. They need to give passengers a sheet of paper at check in to inform them which restaurants they can use for each package. Internet is extremely difficult to access if you have an Apple device. Passengers with androids are having an easier time. Honestly I do not think the packages are worth it. This is our 14th cruise with Princess, and sadly, we feel that it is time to move on to another cruise line. As a side not, the Explorer is way too big to give good service. We are going to stick with smaller ships from now on with more personal service.
I have a deposit down for a cruise out of San Francisco after reading all about princess,we can only afford the standard plan,looks like we would suffer cruising this way,it’s a shame what they have done.prices out of San Francisco are way to expensive
Princess has really gone downhill in service and food quality. It's too bad because the ships are nice and the lower standard of service and food has made me consider another line.
Is it just me or does the food quality look disappointing unless you go specialty? We were very happy with NCL food; now I’m having second thoughts on our booking with Sun Princess with Plus. Paid a lot more too
Long time Princess cruiser. We tried New Holland just because we heard great things. While it was nice the perks you lose made it a no go for us. We will stick with Princess.
We are planning a 2025 summer cruise and looking at the Enchanted Princess. Any tips or recommendations?
Just gamble. Princess Casino offers usually offer quite a bit of value. My next cruise is a 20 night minisuite around Japan with at least 13 ports including Taiwan and Korea. We're bringing a toddler and a mother and for all 4 with travel insurance I'm around $2800 with $700 on board credit and $1000 freeplay, making a 3 week cruise for 4 roughly $1100, or less than $14/day per person, and we're also getting princess plus and elite privileges which includes in cabin minibar, in cabin afternoon tea, wifi for 2 devices, drink package for 2, and on and on. No, I'm not including potential losses in the casino, but it's highly doubtful that it will come close to the $20,000 it would have cost us for this same cruise.
can you get change as in single dollars or five dollar bills for tipping on board, if you decide to tip on your own?