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Every Princess cruise has onboard activities led by the entertainment team of each cruise ship.
Below will show you an example of an entertainment schedule of onboard activities on a Princess cruise!
Of course, your cruise may (will!) vary, but this is just to give you an idea of what kinds of things you can expect, what time you may be able to expect certain activities, and more!
Onboard activities offered on sea days will be different from port days.
Because you will be on a cruise ship all day long, sea days will have more activities throughout the day!
Because most people tend to get off the cruise ship on port days, there will be less activities offered while the cruise ship is in port.
But as soon as the cruise ship has started sailing, you can expect entertainment activities to get started!
You can stay on the cruise ship during port days if you want. It’s not required to get off.
The daily schedule of cruise activities
When you are on a Princess cruise ship, you will get a daily activities schedule every day.
On the first day of the cruise, it will be in your cabin when you arrive.
👆 When you arrive in your cabin on the first day of the cruise, there will be a bunch of papers for you to read to get the most out of your cruise! You will also get the entertainment schedule for the first day of the cruise.
More of inside a Princess cruise ship cabin: cruise ship bathroom
For the rest of the days of the cruise, a paper version of the schedule will be delivered to you every evening by your stateroom steward (aka housekeeping person).
This daily activities schedule used to officially be called the Princess Patter, although nowadays it’s simply a schedule of “Princess event listings.”
👆 You will get a daily sheet of cruise activities when you are on a Princess cruise ship.
Also on the daily schedule of cruise activities you will find the hours of things around the ship.
The hours of certain things may change based on whether the cruise ship is at sea or in port.
The hours are on the back of the Princess Patter.
More about a Princess cruise:
Journeyview on the Princess app
Another way you can see what’s going on around the cruise ship is by using your Princess app.
The Princess app can be useful for a number of things, and one of those things is to see the onboard activities schedule!
On the Princess app, the onboard cruise activities will be under “journeyview.”
You may be able to start to see this before you even get on the cruise ship.
While you can look at it before you get on the cruise ship to start to give you an idea, it’s very likely that what you see before you get on the cruise ship in journeyview is not completely updated.
So just keep that in mind.
And if you don’t see something listed that you believe is an activity during every cruise, it could just be that it hasn’t been added yet.
The cruise activities can change even during the cruise, so you can expect that it’s very possible that it can change if you’re looking at it before the cruise.
Bookmarking activities on the Princess app
If you are starting to see cruise activities listed in journeyview, you may notice that it appears that events are “filling up.”
It’s possible to “bookmark” an activity.
But that is all it is.
It is a “bookmark” for your reference.
👆 You can look for onboard activities in the journeyview section of the Princess app once you are on the cruise ship. For your own reference, you can mark an event to indicate that you want to attend. This is not a requirement to attend an event. You can just show up.
An event that appears to be filling up just means that many people have shown interest in the activity and have bookmarked it.
It does not mean people are making reservations.
That is not how you make a reservation for any of the activities.
And in fact, you don’t need to make a reservation to attend most activities on a cruise ship.
There may be very special circumstances in which you do need to do something in advance for very special activities, but this is not normal.
In general, even if you see on the Princess app that an event is “full,” you can still show up.
Likewise, you do not need to bookmark an event in order to show up to an activity.
More below for the day-by-day schedule of cruise activities of one Princess cruise ship!
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Onboard cruise activities on a Princess cruise ship
This is the Princess Patter from 3 days of a 7-day cruise in May 2023.
There’s embarkation day, a sea day, and a port day.
No 2 cruises will be the same!
While your cruise will be different, you can also make note of the hours in port and hours or various activities around the cruise ship.
👆 This was the cruise ship itinerary.
Day 1: Embarkation day
👆 Front side of the Princess cruise activities schedule on embarkation day. You can see the detailed activities below.
👆 Back side of the Princess cruise activities schedule on embarkation day. The back side of the activities schedule also lists hours around the ship.
👆 Princess cruise activities include movies under the stars. If there are no limitations, there are movies shown on in the evenings on the big screen on the open deck. So you will be watching a movie under the stars! You can also watch movies from the comfort of your cabin. There is a lot of watch on a Princess cruise ship TV!
👇 Hours around the cruise ship on embarkation day.
See more about what an embarkation day is like:
Day 2: Sea day (formal night)
On most cruises, the first formal night will be on the first sea day.
On a 7-day cruise there will usually be 2 formal nights.
👆 Front side of the Princess cruise activities schedule on sea day.
👆 Back side of the Princess cruise activities schedule on sea day.
👇 Hours on a cruise ship on a sea day.
Day 3: Port day (6:30am to 2pm)
👆 Front side of the Princess cruise activities schedule on a short port day.
👆 Back side of the Princess cruise activities schedule on a port day.
👇 Hours around a cruise ship on a short port day.
And those are some cruise activities you may find on a Princess cruise ship!
As of summer 2023, I have spent 43 days on Princess cruise ships this year.
All of the above is based on my experience and understanding! Your experience may vary! Your understanding may vary!
HAPPY DOING PRINCESS CRUISE ACTIVITIES!
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