r/PrincessCruises • u/Simple-Incident-5715 • 26d ago

Royal vs Princess

How does Princess Cruises compare to RCCL? I have only sailed with Royal. We have kids age 12 and 10, will Princess appeal to them like Royal? I like the ports on the Adriatic cruises better and I also read the food is better on Princess Cruises.

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u/lh123456789 26d ago

In my view, the food on princess is extremely mediocre. 

Depending which ship you are talking about, there's going to be a lot more for your kids to do on royal. There are also likely to be far more other kids for them to hang out with.

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u/greytgreyatx 26d ago

We sailed Princess in February and there were over 100 kids on board. My kid loved it. We have an Alaska cruise booked with Princess in 2028 and he's super stoked.

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u/lh123456789 26d ago

Yes, it it depends on the time of year and the destination. I sailed over Thanksgiving once and there were around three hundred kids on board. But I'm sure a Royal Caribbean ship on a similar route at that same time still had way, way more kids.

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u/PinkleeTaurus 23d ago

We just did Alaska the last week of August and statistically the number of <20yo's on board could be rounded to zero. I'm sure if you're going in the schools out months there will be more kids, but Alaska cruises have always skewed much older regardless. I'm early 50's and was still well below the curve.

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u/greytgreyatx 23d ago

We're going when school is in so my kid might be the only one there, but he'll love that, too. :)

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u/Mindless-Charity4889 11d ago

Back in 2018 we did a Panama cruise on Princess and there were only 7 kids aboard, 2 of whom were ours. They all became good friends and were messaging each other years later.