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PCL Princess Cruises

United States · Carnival Corporation · HQ: Fort Lauderdale / Los Angeles

The Love Boat line — destination cruising at scale, crowned by the Italian-built Sphere class.

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Biggest shipStar Princess
Group / allianceCarnival Corporation
Founded1965
MarkPCL
The whole fleet

Every Princess Cruises ship, in brief

Princess Cruises sails 17 ships as of mid-2026. The Sphere class crowns the fleet — Sun Princess (2024) and flagship Star Princess (2025), with a third on order — above six Royal-class ships (Royal, Regal, Majestic, Sky, Enchanted, Discovery Princess), the Grand and Crown classes that defined 2000s Princess, and the smaller Coral-class pair for the Panama Canal.

We profile the flagships in full below — the rest of the fleet joins ships.fyi class by class.

The fleet

What Princess Cruises operates

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Star Princess

Fincantieri · In service

Mediterranean inaugural season, Caribbean winters from Fort Lauderdale, Alaska from 2026 — she made her first Panama Canal transit in April 2026.

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Good to know

Princess Cruises, in a few facts

  • The 1970s TV series The Love Boat was filmed aboard Princess ships and made the brand a household name before most people had ever cruised.
  • Its Sphere-class flagships Sun Princess and Star Princess are the largest cruise ships ever built in Italy.
  • A pioneer of large-scale Alaska cruising, pairing ships with its own network of wilderness lodges.