ScholarShip@Sea : Princess Cruises®

ScholarShip@Sea®

Expand Your Horizons

Indulge In An Array of Engaging Opportunities On Every Voyage

A voyage with Princess® is so much more than just the destinations you visit. For each Princess ship is a destination in itself — with unlimited opportunities to learn and enjoy. Imagine, for example, learning to use your digital camera to take professional-quality photos of your cruise. Or perhaps creating a hand-painted vase in the first ceramics studio at sea. Welcome to our Princess ScholarShip@Sea Program.® Choose from up to 40 classes on every voyage including everything from scrapbooking to wine tasting. In this guide, you’ll learn more about the enrichment opportunities that await you on your cruise. We hope you’ll enjoy many of these fun, engaging ScholarShip@Sea classes and make your escape a true adventure in discovery.

Note: Not all courses are available on all vessels. For some activities, charges apply.

See the extensive and engaging enrichment programs that Princess offers at sea.

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An Adventure In Taste

Culinary Arts

Get ready for a tantalizing tour of the world of fine food. Put your chef’s hat on and learn the secrets of preparing a spectacular array of mouth-watering gourmet specialties served onboard with our culinary arts courses. They feature entertaining demonstrations from guest chefs as well as our own onboard experts — with recipes to take home.

Wine Tasting

Whether you’re a beginner looking to learn the basics of wine tasting, or a connoisseur interested in expanding your knowledge, our onboard wine tasting seminars should be on your schedule. These fun and fascinating adventures in the exciting world of wine offer a wonderful opportunity to make new friends as you taste superb selections hand-picked by our cellar master.

Explore Your Artistic Side

Scrapbooking@Sea

Learn to capture your cruise memories forever in a fabulous scrapbook or memory album. The first such program of its kind at sea, scrapbooking provides a fun social atmosphere where you’ll discover how to create a wonderfully personal keepsake of your Princess vacation. An introductory course is free of charge and teaches you basic tools like page design, journaling and other helpful hints. More in-depth courses are available with a purchase of our special Princess Scrapbooking Kit. These classes offer additional tips and clever ideas to craft your own pages while using our available decorative papers, die-cut machines and more!

Photography@Sea

Whether you’re an amateur or intermediate photographer, here’s your chance to learn how to achieve professional results. With Photography@Sea, you can develop or enhance your picture-taking skills with fun hands-on courses in everything from basic techniques to new digital technology. Taught by our professional photography staff, courses include Introduction to Photography, Using and Setting Your Digital Camera, Photo Digital and Film Basics, or Creative Photography. You’ll also learn exciting travel photo techniques that you can use to capture more memorable images of your cruise.

Ceramics@Sea

Get creative and have fun with your own hand-painted design on unique pre-made ceramic pieces — fired in the cruise industry’s first onboard kilns! Choose a mug, a plate or a bowl, and add your own creative touch, then we’ll fire it in our kilns. By voyage end, you’ll have a one-of-a-kind souvenir! In addition, exclusively on Island Princess® and Coral Princess,® a wet-clay pottery program includes specialized wheel-throwing classes.

An Enlightening Escape

Enrichment Lectures

On select voyages and vessels, onboard enrichment speakers bring you the best lectures at sea. Noted experts in their fields present intriguing talks and Q&As on a wide variety of subjects ranging from ports and destination highlights, to maritime history, theater, art history, politics, science and more. These stimulating presentations bring a wealth of information to enhance your ScholarShip@Sea experience.

Navigation@Sea

From ancient mariners to modern vessels, if you’ve always wondered what it takes to navigate a cruise ship, this is for you! While different navigation techniques have evolved over the ages, this exciting multimedia presentation highlights all the basics of cruise ship operation presented by one of your ship's officers. Join fellow passengers as you learn the history of navigation and increase your maritime terminology from bow to stern.

Computers@Sea

Is there a computer program you’ve always wanted to learn, but never had the time? Our popular series of classes makes it easy to improve your computer skills. Whether it’s your first time on a computer or you’re an experienced user, we have a class to match your skills and engage your interests. Computers@Sea offers lessons suitable for all ages, providing informative and individualized attention.