Princess Cruises Insider's Handbook 2026–2027 (Full Color): Port-by-Port Shore Excursions, Ship and Cabin Picks, Fare and Package Breakdowns, Maps and Boarding Day Tips

The full-color handbook that tells you which cabin to book, which tour to skip, and what your fare leaves out.

Most guides describe the ship. This one prices the week.

Alaska at first light, with rangers aboard narrating a glacier approach. A dining room where the waiter knows your order by night three. Written for the first-timer weighing whether a balcony earns its price, and for the returning cruiser who wants the cabin numbers to avoid.

Twenty sailings sit behind these pages, and no relationship with any cruise line sits behind the opinions. That is why this guide says when something is not worth your money.

Inside this full-color guide:

Ship and stateroom choices: which class suits your route, and the rooms to refuse on any deck plan. The real cost of a week: onboard charges, gratuity rates, drink arithmetic, and the numbers that decide which fare bundle pays. Port days that work: which calls reward a booked tour, and which are better spent aboard. Planning extras that map your days for you, a packing list built by climate, and phrases for eight languages. Health and safety reference with fill-in medical details and a claim checklist you complete before you fly. Covers: Alaska, the Caribbean, Bermuda, Mexico, the Panama Canal, South America, Canada and New England, the Mediterranean, Norway and the Baltic, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Hawaii, and world voyages.

Pick your region, book the room that suits it, and spend the week looking at the water.