Princess
Enchanted Princess
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Ship at a glance
Entered service
June 2020
Class
Royal Class
Ship type
large ship
Passengers
3,660
Typical voyage
7-10 night
For kids
good
Last inspection
2026-01-06
93/100 · Passing
CDC VSP
Entertainment onboard
- Broadway-style theater productions
- casino
- multiple dining venues
- live music performances
Room categories
- Interior
- Oceanview
- Balcony
- Mini-suite
- Suite
Family features
- kids club
- youth programs
- family activities
Ship specifications are AI-curated from public sources and confirmed against Princess marketing copy. Rankquant's 78th percentile is computed independently across 214 z-qualifying Cruise Critic reviewers — see how percentiles are computed.
Life onboard
What it actually feels like to sail Enchanted Princess— entertainment, food, and the crowd you'll find onboard.
Entertainment
You'll catch Broadway-scale shows in the main theater—production orchestras, decent casts, actual staging—plus comedy clubs, piano bars, and deck parties that feel spontaneous rather than mandatory. Entertainment spreads across multiple venues so you're not watching the same performers every night, and the energy ramps up evenings while quieter activities fill days. If you skip the formal shows, there's background buzz everywhere without forcing you into a schedule.
Food & dining
The main dining room does traditional table service with a fresh menu nightly and solid execution—not fancy, but generous and reliable. Specialty restaurants (steakhouse, Italian) charge extra and noticeably step up the quality; the buffet is respectable with decent variety; pizza and pasta stations throughout the day handle casual bites. It's the kind of food experience where nothing disappoints, and nothing surprises you unpleasantly.
Atmosphere
This ship feels built for families mixing comfortably with couples—you see strollers near retirees without awkwardness. Kids' clubs give parents breathing room, adults-only pool decks offer quiet zones, and enough crowd that solo travelers don't feel isolated. Contemporary without being trendy, entertaining without demanding participation, it strikes that rare balance where everyone finds their pace.
The ship & service
A closer look at Princess as a line, Enchanted Princess as a ship, and the service and deck quality to expect onboard.
- The line
- Princess sits in the mainstream-premium tier, a step above mass-market lines like Carnival and Royal Caribbean without reaching luxury territory. It is best known for destination-focused itineraries, particularly Alaska and Europe, and tends to attract couples and multigenerational families who want polished service and broad activity options without formality or pretense.
- The ship
- Enchanted Princess is a 2020-built Royal Class ship, putting it among the line's newest and most refined hulls with contemporary interiors that still feel current. At roughly 3,660 guests it reads as a true mega-ship with a wide central piazza atrium serving as the social hub, plus the over-water SeaWalk glass walkway that has become a Royal Class signature.
- Service
- Crew-to-guest ratio is not published here, but Princess at this scale runs a high-volume mainstream-premium service model: friendly and competent across dining, cabins, and bars, with the MedallionClass wearable smoothing requests and on-demand delivery. Expect attentive rather than personalized service, with response times that hold up well outside peak dinner and embarkation windows.
- Decks & spaces
- Public spaces are in good shape given the 2020 build, with multiple pools including an adults-only retreat, a top-deck movie screen, and wraparound outer deck access typical of the class. Materials lean modern with warm woods, stone-look surfaces, and glass railings throughout the atrium and promenade, and upkeep should be solid since the ship has not yet hit a major mid-life refurbishment cycle.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this ship against every other ship those same people sailed and rated. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Enchanted Princess lands against every ship we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — the other ships in the same fleet, so a line's budget hull is judged against its own sisters rather than against a luxury expedition ship. Ranked against Princess (16 ships).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each ship keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 214.
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