Kaikit Posted May 7 #26 Share Posted May 7 8 hours ago, Princess Cruises Fann said: https://www.travelgossip.co.uk/product-news/grand-princess-to-homeport-in-san-juan-for-winter-2025-6/ Wonder what Princess will do with the Grand cruises that are currently scheduled for Australia and New Zealand during that time and still show as available as booking on the Princess Cruises website? Well, the boat can't be in two places at once ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare LACruiser88 Posted May 7 #27 Share Posted May 7 Details in the below thread... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaikit Posted May 7 #28 Share Posted May 7 No, I meant the boat can't be in Australia and the Caribbean at the same time... as they are still selling the Grand Caribbean in November.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplem67 Posted May 8 #29 Share Posted May 8 9 hours ago, Princess Cruises Fann said: https://www.travelgossip.co.uk/product-news/grand-princess-to-homeport-in-san-juan-for-winter-2025-6/ Wonder what Princess will do with the Grand cruises that are currently scheduled for Australia and New Zealand during that time and still show as available as booking on the Princess Cruises website? @Princess Cruises Fann I'm booked on a Grand Princess cruise out of Brisbane on 8th December 2025, so I'll be keeping an eye on my email to see what I hear from Princess Cruises. I assume there will be another ship added in place of Grand Princess 🤷♀️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El turista Posted May 8 #30 Share Posted May 8 Pretty sure they'll use Pier 4 in Old San Juan. They're departing on Sundays and the Brilliance of the Seas and Norwegian Epic will also depart Sundays of that same season. Royal Caribbean has priority at the Pan American Pier so one terminal is for the Brilliance of the Seas and Norwegian Epic is too big for Pier 4 so they'll take the other terminal at Pan American Pier. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare cr8tiv1 Posted May 8 #31 Share Posted May 8 3 hours ago, Cruise Junky said: As Grand is doing Alaska prior to these cruises there could be a nice Panama Canal repositioning cruise. Shhhhhh..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doghog Posted May 8 #32 Share Posted May 8 1 minute ago, cr8tiv1 said: Shhhhhh..... Too late. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Honolulu Blue Posted May 16 #33 Share Posted May 16 Bookings look to be available for these cruises out of San Juan. The rest of this post is probably of more use to me than anyone else: The 14-day cruise that's of most interest to me has the following itinerary (December 7-21): Day 1 - depart SJ at 7 pm Day 2 - St. Croix, 8-6 Day 3 - St. Kitts, 7-5 Day 4 - St. Lucia, 9-7 Day 5 - St. Vincent, 8-6 Day 6 - Barbados, 7-7 Day 7 - at sea Day 8 - San Juan, 6-7 Day 9 - St. Thomas, 8-6 Day 10 - Sint Maarten, 8-6 Day 11 - Antigua, 8-6 Day 12 - Dominica, 8-6 Day 13 - Barbados, 7-7 Day 14 - at sea Day 15 - arrive SJ at 6 am I've been to all these islands except St. Vincent. One of the reasons why I highlighted this route is that it goes there. Guadeloupe and Martinique shows up on other itineraries. I've been to Martinique before; it's all right, but I don't want to hurry back. I haven't been to Guadeloupe. I'd rather go to St. Vincent. A notable island that's skipped on this journey is Grenada. I'm pretty sure it's picked up on other cruises from Princess. As expected, only Barbados is a repeat port on this cruise - not counting San Juan. The 7 PM departure time is interesting. They could leave even later if they wanted, but perhaps they want to keep us on schedule as much as possible. Carnival (10 PM) and Celebrity (8:30) left later on their ships out of SJ. This is not a cruise for people who love sea days, nor for those who dislike the charms of the Eastern Caribbean. I don't expect this group of cruises to sell to quickly, so I have lots of time to do my due diligence and figure out exactly what I want to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voljeep Posted May 17 #34 Share Posted May 17 yeah, could prolly justify a 'fly trip' for that itinerary. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voljeep Posted May 17 #35 Share Posted May 17 14 hours ago, Honolulu Blue said: A notable island that's skipped on this journey is Grenada. I'm pretty sure it's picked up on other cruises from Princess. Bonaire ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Honolulu Blue Posted May 17 #36 Share Posted May 17 5 minutes ago, voljeep said: Bonaire ?? None of the round-trip sailings from San Juan go to Bonaire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voljeep Posted May 17 #37 Share Posted May 17 4 minutes ago, Honolulu Blue said: None of the round-trip sailings from San Juan go to Bonaire. bummer - my wife learned how to snorkel in our pool. Bonaire was her first open water snorkel - after the first minute, she loved it ... but sorry, no sea turtle sighting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare spethstation Posted May 17 #38 Share Posted May 17 15 hours ago, Honolulu Blue said: Bookings look to be available for these cruises out of San Juan. The rest of this post is probably of more use to me than anyone else: The 14-day cruise that's of most interest to me has the following itinerary (December 7-21): Day 1 - depart SJ at 7 pm Day 2 - St. Croix, 8-6 Day 3 - St. Kitts, 7-5 Day 4 - St. Lucia, 9-7 Day 5 - St. Vincent, 8-6 Day 6 - Barbados, 7-7 Day 7 - at sea Day 8 - San Juan, 6-7 Day 9 - St. Thomas, 8-6 Day 10 - Sint Maarten, 8-6 Day 11 - Antigua, 8-6 Day 12 - Dominica, 8-6 Day 13 - Barbados, 7-7 Day 14 - at sea Day 15 - arrive SJ at 6 am I've been to all these islands except St. Vincent. One of the reasons why I highlighted this route is that it goes there. Guadeloupe and Martinique shows up on other itineraries. I've been to Martinique before; it's all right, but I don't want to hurry back. I haven't been to Guadeloupe. I'd rather go to St. Vincent. A notable island that's skipped on this journey is Grenada. I'm pretty sure it's picked up on other cruises from Princess. As expected, only Barbados is a repeat port on this cruise - not counting San Juan. The 7 PM departure time is interesting. They could leave even later if they wanted, but perhaps they want to keep us on schedule as much as possible. Carnival (10 PM) and Celebrity (8:30) left later on their ships out of SJ. This is not a cruise for people who love sea days, nor for those who dislike the charms of the Eastern Caribbean. I don't expect this group of cruises to sell to quickly, so I have lots of time to do my due diligence and figure out exactly what I want to do. I'm eyeing this sailing too, I've only been to SJ/St Maarten! The price is really good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Honolulu Blue Posted May 18 #39 Share Posted May 18 On 5/16/2024 at 6:28 PM, Honolulu Blue said: The 14-day cruise that's of most interest to me has the following itinerary (December 7-21): Day 1 - depart SJ at 7 pm Day 2 - St. Croix, 8-6 Day 3 - St. Kitts, 7-5 Day 4 - St. Lucia, 9-7 Day 5 - St. Vincent, 8-6 Day 6 - Barbados, 7-7 Day 7 - at sea Day 8 - San Juan, 6-7 Day 9 - St. Thomas, 8-6 Day 10 - Sint Maarten, 8-6 Day 11 - Antigua, 8-6 Day 12 - Dominica, 8-6 Day 13 - Barbados, 7-7 Day 14 - at sea Day 15 - arrive SJ at 6 am I booked this exact B2B yesterday as separate cruises. Again, this is of more use to me than anyone else, but I didn't want to establish a new thread here or in the roll call. I'll do the roll call thing later, if I have to. I looked through a few different cabin classes on a few different decks. Hardly any were booked. This apparently is far different than that solar eclipse cruise that went on sale at about the same time. No one had booked any of the obstructed OVs I decided to favor for this trip. So, I booked a couple - the same one for both cruises. This is another solo trip for me, so I paid the full single tax For some reason, I didn't get the $99 deposit. My deposit was $250 for each cruise. Not a big deal. They're fully refundable and I figure I'll have to pay up eventually anyway if things go well. I didn't buy any add-ons at this time. I'll evaluate them later. Don't expect me to add a full package. So far I'm not seeing any of these cruises it in the two online agencies that I know about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodndonna Posted May 18 #40 Share Posted May 18 Happy to see Princess offer cruises from San Juan. Like others we love sailing form San Juan when we can, but options are limited. We've only been on the Discovery but purchased FCD's and looking to try a smaller/older Princess ship to compare with - so it's a win/win for us 😄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare spethstation Posted June 4 #41 Share Posted June 4 I ended up biting the bullet and booking the Oct 12 sailing that visits Tortola, St Kitts, Dominica, Grenada, and Barbados. $919 CAD with refundable deposit (Princess Standard in interior room.) Eeeek! 🤩 Can't remember the last time I spent under $1k for a 7-day cruise... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROXIETHEHORSE Posted June 24 #42 Share Posted June 24 We are looking at either the 2/1/26 or 2/15/26. There is an oddity on these...when you click to look at the details, the map of ports does not match the list of ports. I called Princess and was told to ignore the maps...the ports listed are the correct ports. All the other sailings out of San Juan that I looked at had the matching map of ports and list of ports. This makes me a little nervous...like someone jumped the gun and put up maps of what future change to the itinerary will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacMadame Posted June 24 #43 Share Posted June 24 2 hours ago, ROXIETHEHORSE said: This makes me a little nervous...like someone jumped the gun and put up maps of what future change to the itinerary will be. Or the opposite. They changed the itinerary and haven't updated the maps yet. Either way ... sloppy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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