Princess Reached for the Sky on Saturday

Sky Princess was officially named in Ft. Lauderdale on Saturday in a ceremony whose theme was “Reach for the Sky” and honored the women of NASA.

The ship was named by her godmothers, astronaut Captain Kay Hire and NASA engineer Poppy Northcutt.

The complete story appeared in the December 9 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Trial Run

Princess Cruises reports that their next ship, Sky Princess, completed sea trials at the end of last month in the Adriatic.

The complete story appeared in the September 10 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

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All That Jazz

Sky Princess will be delivered in October, just three months away, and Princess is still revealing major new features. Today the line said Sky Princess (and next summer, Enchanted Princess) will have a jazz theater, the only ones at sea, called Take 5.

The complete story appeared in the July 30 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Rendering of Take 5 aboard Island Princess

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Original Artwork

We have a winner! Well, actually two winners. Or more precisely, a thousand winners. More than 13,000 people submitted photos to Princess Cruises' “Sea to Sky Princess” contest with Princess promising to more or less permanently display the best 1,000 aboard their new Sky Princess which will debut in October.

Princess asked their fans to submit photos from Princess destinations that embodied discovery and inspire exploration. The top 1,000 which they chose would become artwork displayed in the corridors and staterooms of Sky Princess.

The grand prize winner was Carol Lahnum from Juneau, Alaska, who submitted a photo of Brown's Cave at Mendenhall Glacier (shown below at left). Princess employees also submitted photos in their own contest, and the grand prize winner of that competition was Mark Harris, who is based in Seattle. He submitted a photo of a hidden cafe in Mykonos, Greece (below, right).

The complete story appeared in the June 12 issue of Cruise News Daily. 

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If They Like It in China, They'll Love It in the Caribbean

Princess Cruises said today that La Mer, the casual French bistro restaurant, that debuted aboard Majestic Princess in China and is now wowing them in Australia, will join the lineup of specialty restaurants aboard Sky Princess when it sails in the Caribbean beginning in December. It will mark the first time the line has offered a French restaurant to North Americans.

The complete story appeared in the March 11 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Princess Triple Header in Monfalcone

Fincantieri and Princess Cruises celebrated important construction milestones yesterday for three ships at the builder's Monfalcone (Italy) yard.

The complete story appeared in the February 15 issue of Cruise News Daily.

The first block of the keel of Enchanted Princess was laid

2nd Officer Kerry Ann Wright, the madrina, with Jan Swartz

Sky Princess at Float Out

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At the Top of the Sky

When the new Sky Princess leaves the yard in October, she will debut with some 140 years of experience with Princess among the top officers which the line named yesterday. Many will be familiar faces among customers who enjoy sailing on the newest ships because they have taken several other ships out of the yard.

Leading the team will be the master, Captain Heikki Laakkonen.

Details appeared in the February 12 issue of Cruise News Daily.

The Big Get Bigger

Remember those great big balconies on the Sky Suites aboard Sky Princess. Sit down. Princess is going to make them even bigger.

The two sky suites aboard Sky Princess and Enchanted Princess were originally announced to be a whopping 700 square feet. They have now grown to 1,012 square feet for the suite on the starboard side and 947 square feet for the suite on the port side.

Details appeared in the January 28 issue of Cruise News Daily. 

You Can Be Immortalized in the Sky

Your vacation memories could help decorate Sky Princess for years to come and be seen by thousands of other Princess cruisers. In the process, you could win yourself a cruise for two on the new mega-liner.

There will be a thousand winners in this contest who have their photos printed and framed and displayed in the stateroom corridors aboard Sky Princess when it sails out of the yard next October, but only one of those will win the grand prize of a cruise for two up to a week long.

The complete story appeared in the October 4 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Sky Princess Details Emerge

The launch of Sky Princess is still a little over a year away (October 2019), but already Princess is beginning to fill in their fans on features of the new ship.

One of the major ones revealed today is the addition of “Sky Suites” to the Sky Deck.

The complete story appeared in the July 30 edition of Cruise News Daily.




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Now There's Something You Don't See Every Day

Remember the old news reels where you saw a ship christened and it slid down the rails into the water? As ships grew in size, they started building them in dry docks and brought the water to the ship instead of taking the ship to the water.

Now since ships are getting even bigger, they are being built in sections and then the sections are being assembled in the dry dock. Sometimes then, the sections are built on land and slide down the rails into the water.

That was the case for the bow section of Sky Princess. The bow was built at Fincantieri's Castellammare di Stabia yard near Naples. Last Thursday the 7,600-ton (weight) section was launched and rolled down the rails into the water.

The complete story appeared in the February 5 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

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Mary Is a Grand Old Name and So Is Sky

Princess Cruises said today that its fourth Royal-class ship will be named Sky Princess, and it will debut in the Mediterranean in October 2019.

The complete story appeared in the November 30 edition of Cruise News Daily.