SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – Princess Cruises sails guests from the Port of Los Angeles this afternoon, marking the first cruise from San Pedro since the cruise industry closed down earlier last year. Jan Swartz, President of Princess Cruises, visited Grand Princess to attend a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially welcome the first guests on board. She visited the ship earlier in the week to thank the officers and crew for being the stars of the show, which draws on the history of the cruise lines as the ocean going co-start of the hit TV series “The Love Boat” and their recognition goes back to 2018 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
From left to right: Hotel General Manager Riccardo Capraro, Princess Cruises President Jan Swartz, First Guests Blake and Lara Handler and Captain Andrea Spinardi celebrate the return of the Grand Princess by cutting the ribbon.
Princess Cruises, the hometown of Los Angeles, has been sailing from the Port of Los Angeles since 1965 and has been doing so more often than any other cruise line. In the past decade, Princess has had more than 700 ship visits to Los Angeles – most of all lines in the past decade.
“We are proud that Grand Princess is back into service in our home port. Our crew members look forward to welcoming guests back on board as we resume operations in the United States, ”said Jan Swartz, President of Princess Cruises. “We are grateful to the Port of Los Angeles for their support during the break and look forward to working with us again.”
“Princess Cruises is a valued long-term partner and we are excited to welcome Grand Princess back to Los Angeles for the first passenger cruise since March 2020,” said Port Executive Director Gene Seroka. “We’re a full-service port – with cargo, marina, cruise and visitor services – and each cruise call generates more than $ 1 million in local economic activity. This is particularly important for the city and the port of Los Angeles. ‘
Grand Princess embarks on a 5-day Cabo San Lucas Getaway, the first of five trips on this itinerary and the first of eleven trips from the Port of Los Angeles in 2021. Grand Princess offers a MedallionClass vacation that is the ultimate in effortlessness , personalized. offers cruise. It starts with OceanMedallion, a quarter-size wearable device that enables everything from touchless boarding to finding loved ones anywhere on the ship to improved service, e.g.
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Publisher’s Note:
The B-roll of today’s event can be downloaded here and high resolution photos can be downloaded here.
About Princess Cruises:
Princess Cruises, one of the best-known names in the cruise industry, is the world’s leading premium international cruise and travel company, operating a fleet of 14 modern cruise lines and transporting two million guests to 380 destinations around the globe each year, including the Caribbean, Alaska, Panama Canal, Mexican Riviera, Europe, South America, Australia / New Zealand, South Pacific, Hawaii, Asia, Canada / New England, Antarctica and World Cruises. A team of professional travel destination experts has put together 170 itineraries ranging in length from three to 111 days, and Princess Cruises is consistently recognized as “Best Cruise Line for Itineraries”. In 2017, Princess Cruises partnered with parent company Carnival Corporation to launch MedallionClass Vacations made possible by the OceanMedallion device, the vacation industry’s most advanced portable device, made available free of charge to every guest sailing on a MedallionClass ship. The award-winning innovation offers the fastest route to an effortless, personalized vacation that gives guests more time to do the things they love most. The company is part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE / LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK).
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Our Princess Crew are the stars of the show on Grand Princess, and in preparation for the resumption of service in LA, we welcome our appreciation with the cast of The Love Boat from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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