Star Princess Closes Out Its Debut Alaska Season After 20 Sailings
If you want to sail the Star Princess, your options now sit in the Caribbean. Weeklong cruises leave Port Everglades through April 2027, so check the sailing dates that fit your calendar. If Alaska is your goal, the article says the ship returns after a repositioning voyage that starts in April 2027, so look for its next Seattle departures. The 16-night Los Angeles-to-Fort Lauderdale voyage with a full Panama Canal transit has already left.
My read is that Princess is working its newest and largest ship hard on a clean seasonal rotation: Alaska in summer, Port Everglades in winter, with repositioning voyages in between. The Star Princess was delivered by Fincantieri in late 2025 and has already sailed the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and Alaska. For a 175,500-ton ship carrying 4,000 passengers, that is a lot of miles in under a year. Seattle and the Alaska ports win from 20 sailings of a headline ship, and the expected 90,000-plus passengers show the scale. The 16-night repositioning cruise through the Panama Canal is the quieter story, because it sells a long itinerary for a leg that would otherwise be a transit. I would watch how the Caribbean winter fills before assuming the Alaska pattern repeats. If you want this ship in Alaska, I would not wait long, since the return is set for after April 2027.