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If you have ever cruised on board Princess Cruises’ liner Sapphire Princess, you had better take good care of your holiday photos: the next time you travel on this ship it is going to look dramatically different.

If you have an inspiring story to tell about a cruise holiday it could well earn you another holiday and with Princess Cruises it could become part of a year-long travel blog where passengers share inspirational stories about their cruise experiences.

Princess Cruises currently offers discounted fares on cruises to Alaska and Europe – and there is a Balcony Bonus Sale that will end on the 31st January. Passengers who make a reservation right now can qualify for discounts of up to £645 ($1,000 US) per cabin off Launch Fares and receive a complimentary balcony upgrade.

Alaska may not be on your list of holiday places but perhaps you would like to think again, as Alaska offers something far different from the UK. In the Southeast you have the Temperate Rainforest turning everything beautifully green, and in summer when Princess Cruises frequents it, it is possible to see Orca, Humpback Whales, Otters, Sea Lions and many other wild animals.

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you are used to a white Christmas. Anything else will simply not feel the same. Princess Cruises is well aware of this and for the fifth year running passengers will not miss out on a white Christmas as magical snow flurries transform the ship’s atriums into a winter wonderland.

The senior VP of technical operations at Princess Cruises, John Gunner, says that the company’s new ships will each be equipped with a 52mW powerplant that consists of two 14-cylinder and two 12-cylinder Wartsila F-Series engines. Every engine will have dual pumps for improved fuel consumption.

It seems that if you have always dreamt of a cruise to Bermuda you will have to make that dream come true sooner rather than later. Yet another cruise line has decided to cut its trips to Bermuda.

The East Coast cruising season has now drawn to a close and Princess Cruises reminds cruise lovers that this is the perfect time to make plans for a Canada and New England cruise for next year.

Every year guests on board Princes Cruises ships enjoy countless performances by a variety of guest entertainers, including magicians, tribute bands, comedians and other specialty acts. This coming April, however, one performer will have the honour of being crowned the Entertainer of the Year.

A project that Princess Cruises started three years ago was recently completed when the final The Sanctuary was opened on board Sapphire Princess. The cruise line started to install this “pocket of tranquillity” on board its cruise ships three years ago and except for the two small ships, Ocean Princess and Pacific Princess, all of their ships now offer this popular feature.

Cruise lovers all know the feeling: you’ve just returned from a cruise and you just can’t get yourself to concentrate on the humdrum routine of “normal” life again. All you want to do is to get back in the cruise mood.

We are all feeling the pinch of the poor economy and nobody is going to complain if he or she can get a dream cruise for less than expected.

Nearly 50% of Princess Cruises’ ships will be deployed in European waters during the summer of 2012.

Up to 50% of the Princess Cruises fleet is going to be deployed within Europe for next summer.

Princess Cruises’ passengers will have a hard time making a selection from a bigger array of cruises than ever before for next year. There will be a host of new cruises exploring Northern Europe, Russia and Scandinavia, while the always popular Mediterranean cruises will still be available.

If you have always fancied a journey through the Panama Canal or a cruise to the Caribbean, Princess Cruises has exactly what you want in their 2012/13 itineraries. The company will embark on an array of cruises to these exciting locations from both Galveston, Texas and Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2012 and 2013.

On Saturday night Grand Princes slowly sailed down Southampton Water. As soon as she came out of the Solent, the cruise ship’s captain steered her in a south-south-west direction.

In a world of mega cruise-liners, some of them carrying in the region of 4,000 passengers, we sometimes tend to fall into the trap of believing that bigger is necessarily better. Those of us who have cruised on board the Hebridean Princess know better:

When Princess Cruises’ 1950-passenger cruise liner Dawn Princess arrived in the port of Puntarenas in Costa Rica it signalled the dawn of the new cruise season for the country.

Any festival can do with a couple of extra participants and Holyhead is no exception. The Newry Beach based festival will be boosted by no less than 3,000 cruise passengers this weekend when Crown Princess docks at the port.

After a couple of seasons where cruise lines shunned Thailand as a turnaround destination because of political instability, the majority of them will resume turnaround cruises to that country next year.

Princess Cruises has started a new section on the company’s Facebook page where passengers can recount their experience on board one of the cruise line’s ships. Whether it was a meeting that turned into a romantic relationship, a milestone celebration, running into family or friends, interactions with crew members or discovering new places and meeting new people, you can use the space to tell the world about your favourite Princess experience.

Abu Dhabi’s attempts at becoming a cruise destination of note have received another boost when the 755-passenger Ocean Princess docked at Mina Zayed Port on the 12th May. It is the first time a Princess Cruises ship brings a visit to the emirate.

The Grand Princess just went through a major upgrade that kept 1,400 workers busy for 24 days. The 3,100 passenger cruise liner is now heading back to Southampton for a new cruising season – minus its trademark shopping trolley “handle.”

Many die-hard cruise lovers will never forget their first trip on Princess Cruise Line’s very first Royal Princess way back in 1984. That cruise ship has since been passed on to P&O Cruises and still sails under the new name of Artemis.

The beloved Royal Princess will soon be no more - at least not the P&O version, which is about to be withdrawn from the Princess Cruises fleet. The ship will undergo some renovations and be reborn as the P&O Adonia later this year.

Princess Cruises announced that it honoured a true ambassador of the company, former Love Boat Star Gavin Macleod, in a special way recently when it hosted a birthday party to celebrate his 80th birthday on the company’s Golden Princess cruise ship in Los Angeles.

The Grand Princess will undergo the biggest makeover of any Princess Cruises ship in history when it enters the dry-dock this coming spring. It will be upgraded with many features that became Princess Cruise trademarks since the ship was first launched in 1998. This includes the by now famous Piazza atrium.

As the nation celebrates the announcement of the first major Royal Wedding in over a decade, we keep our fingers crossed for a confirmation of an additional bank holiday being granted in the UK. If the government decide in favour it would be a great result for British workers as this would mean that they would only have to take only three days holiday for a whopping eleven days off work.

Princess Cruises 2011 & 2012 cruise itineraries are announced, cheap cruises specialist Jetline Cruise have a wide range of cruise deals from Princess Cruises available on line, ABTA & ATOL bonded, members of ACE.

Princess Cruises 2011 & 2012 cruise itineraries are announced, cheap cruises specialist Jetline Cruise have a wide range of cruise deals from Princess Cruises available on line, ABTA & ATOL bonded, members of ACE.

Princess Cruises 2011 & 2012 cruise itineraries are announced, cheap cruises specialist Jetline Cruise have a wide range of cruise deals from Princess Cruises available on line, ABTA & ATOL bonded, members of ACE.

Princess passengers given rare glimpse of Declaration of Independence

Holidaymakers with disabilities will find themselves well catered for on cruises, it has been claimed.

Princess has unveiled a series of new tropical itineraries.

Princess Cruises has launched a new online photo journal of the Dawn Princess'' drydock makeover.

Princess Cruises has launched a new Land of Lighthouses, Liberty and Lobsters itinerary.

A Southampton firm has completed an expensive overhaul of the Caribbean Princess and the Golden Princess.

Princess Cruises is launching a new film club at sea.

A travel consultant from Hull is set to have the wedding of her dreams at sea.

The Golden Princess cruise liner has been transformed during an extensive drydock makeover.

Cruise passengers stopping in Sydney this summer can visit the newly-opened Paddington Reservoir Gardens.

Passengers can celebrate Alaska''s 50th anniversary of statehood.

Southampton''s new cruise terminal will open this weekend.