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San Diego residents will soon have easy access to hop on a brand new cruise ship. A Princess Cruises ship called the Diamond Princess will be based locally for a season, according to FOX5.
The ship will be temporarily relocating its port of operations to the San Diego Harbor due to current Japanese COVID-19 restrictions. It will take passengers on trips up and down the West Coast and Mexico. “The good news for San Diego is that Diamond Princess, which will be the largest ship ever to sail out of San Diego, (is relocating),” Stewart Chiron, a cruise industry expert, told FOX5.
The ship is expected to pull into San Diego in September and stay there for at least a year. The ship holds around 2,600 passengers and will tour the coast of California from Ensenada to Los Angeles, Santa Barbara to San Francisco. It also has plans to tour Hawaii.
“California coast is kinda neat because you can see friends and family in different ports and places,” Chiron said. “You know, San Francisco, Santa Barbara that you haven’t seen and you don’t have to get on a plane or drive a car.”
You can find more information on the cruise ship here.