LOS ANGELES -- Princess Cruises' Grand Princess will join sister
ship the Golden Princess in Europe next year.
Princess Cruises will deploy the 2,600-passenger ships May
through August between Barcelona, Spain, and Venice, with calls in
Monte Carlo, Monaco; Livorno (for Florence and Pisa) and Naples,
Italy; Athens, Greece; and Kusadasi and Istanbul, Turkey.
The line said the popularity of the itinerary was the reason for
the double-deployment.
In addition, each ship will sail a transatlantic repositioning
cruise that features maiden port calls: Gibraltar and Alicante,
Spain, on Grand Princess' May crossing, and Cadiz, Spain, and
Casablanca, Morocco, on both ships' return trips in September.