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Princess Cruises Restarts Operations in the U.S. From Seattle
Princess Cruises restarts operations for the first time with the Majestic Princess cruise ship departing sailing Alaska from Seattle.
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Princess Cruises is restarting cruises for the first time in nearly two years. It’s been a long wait, but finally, the Carnival-owned cruise line can start to bring back cruise vacations, starting with the
Majestic Princess from Seattle, Washington.
Majestic Princess Restarts from Seattle
The Princess cruise ship is the first in the fleet not to resume from the U.S. but the first in the world. The vessel departed the Port of Seattle at approximately 6:00 PM local time after 500 days on hold. The ship is sailing a seven-day cruise in Alaska, including calls in Juneau, Skagway,
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December 31, 2019,
the day we first heard about a new virus that emerged in China. There wasn’t much to be worried about and the cruises around the world continued as normal but in the months to follow the industry came to a complete pause and has mainly remained so ever since.
How different the situation was just 2,5 months later. Today marks one year since the
voluntary pause in operations first started on March 12, 2020. It started with Viking Cruises and Princess Cruises with even more cruise lines following to suspend sailings the following day.
Despite years of training, response plans, outbreak plans, the cruise lines felt the effects that a pandemic could have on an industry that until then had experienced its golden years.