Princess Cruises
Princess Cruises is a cruise line based in Santa Clarita, California in the United States and incorporated in Bermuda. Previously a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises, the company is now one of ten cruise ship brands owned by the world's largest cruise ship operator the American/British Carnival Corporation & plc and accounts for approximately 19% share of its revenue. It is part of Holland America Group, which controls the three Carnival brands based on the West Coast of the United States. The line's ships cruise worldwide and are marketed to both American and international passengers. The company was made famous by The Love Boat TV series, in which its ship, Pacific Princess was featured. In May 2013, the brand new Royal Princess became the flagship of Princess Cruises, and in May 2014 was joined by her new sister-ship Regal Princess.
History
Princess Cruises began in 1965, when founder Stanley McDonald chartered Canadian Pacific Limited's Alaska cruise ship Princess Patricia for Mexican Riviera cruises from Los Angeles during a time when she would have usually been laid up for the winter. However, Princess Pat, as she was fondly called, had never been designed for tropical cruising, lacking air-conditioning, and Princess ended her charter in favor of a more purpose-built cruise ship Italia.
Podcasts:
The Cruise
Come on!
There's so many of you, so many people I see
So many of you that I'd like to meet
There's so many things we could do
If you only knew
Jump with you, sleep with you, cheat on our soulmates and find
That some people care and some they don't mind
It don't matter we do what we do
As we break on through
And we sing
Out of tune
We are on the cruise [the cruise]
Optimistic right now, maybe I am
I know how so many people hate that
They'd rather see you lose
And drag you in the hole they're into
Jump with you, laugh with you, babble while they criticize
Let them say what they say, no I really don't mind
Just let them do what they do
As we break on through
And we sing
Out of tune
We are on the cruise [the cruise]
Sleep with you
Deceive with you
Laugh with you
Break on through to the cruise
Yeah
And we sing
Out of tune
We are on the cruise [the cruise]
There's so many of you, so many people I see
So many of you that I'd like to meet
So many things we could do on the cruise
We're on the cruise
We're on the cruise
We're on the cruise, we're on the cruise