Princess Cruises Just Made Its First Visit to Celebration Key in The Bahamas, With 69 Calls Scheduled This Season

By: - November 15th, 2026
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Celebration Key in Grand Bahama is now a Princess stop.

Star Princess made the inaugural stop on Grand Bahama, where passengers can spend the day on a mile and a half of beach, swim in freshwater lagoons or book an adults-only beach club.

A Bahamian Junkanoo band played the theme from The Love Boat as Princess Cruises marked its first visit to Celebration Key on Grand Bahama. Star Princess, the line’s newest ship, made the inaugural call on November 1, a day after leaving Fort Lauderdale on a seven-night Eastern Caribbean cruise.

Princess has scheduled 69 calls at Celebration Key for the 2026–27 season and another 32 in 2028. Six ships are part of the program, bringing the Grand Bahama stop to more Princess itineraries after a first sailing that also included Bimini.

The welcome on Grand Bahama included a Princess sand sculpture beneath Celebration Key’s Sun Portal and a handprint ceremony with Star Princess Captain Paolo Arrigo and Princess Cruises President Gus Antorcha. Grand Bahama Minister Ginger Moxey joined local tourism and port officials at the event. Princess says it has been bringing guests to The Bahamas for nearly 60 years.

What You Can Do at Celebration Key

Ships dock alongside Celebration Key’s beach and freshwater lagoons on Grand Bahama’s south shore. The waterfront stretches for about a mile and a half, and passengers can walk from the pier to the sand, waterslides and dining areas. Private cabanas are available if you want a place to come back to between swims.

Calypso Lagoon has a swim-up bar, and the adults-only Pearl Cove Beach Club has an infinity pool and cabanas. If you’re spending the day around the main beach and lagoons, you can stop for lunch and browse the shops at Lokono Cove before walking back to the ship.

Celebration Key opened in July 2025 and has since become a regular stop on Carnival’s cruises from Miami. Carnival has scheduled 217 calls there on its Miami program between April 2028 and April 2029. Princess adds another way to visit the port, including on weeklong sailings from Fort Lauderdale that go farther into the Eastern Caribbean.

How to Visit Celebration Key and Bimini on the Same Cruise

Star Princess’s inaugural itinerary put Celebration Key first. The ship continued to Amber Cove in the Dominican Republic and Grand Turk in Turks and Caicos before making Princess Cruises’ first call in Bimini on November 6. Passengers could spend one Bahamas port day around the lagoons on Grand Bahama and another swimming at Radio Beach or exploring Alice Town in North Bimini.

The January 9, 2027, departure from Fort Lauderdale is scheduled to visit both Bahamas ports on consecutive days. That seven-night sailing calls at Grand Turk and Amber Cove earlier in the week, then heads to Bimini before stopping at Celebration Key. Princess also has a March 20 departure aboard Star Princess that includes Bimini near the end of the week.

If both Bahamas stops are on your list, check the day-by-day itinerary when comparing Princess’s Caribbean cruises. Even sailings on the same ship from Fort Lauderdale can have different port calls.

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