Majestic Princess Review For Gay Cruisers

This page sits in Ship Reviews, the hub for vessel-by-vessel looks at the ships LGBTQ+ travellers most often weigh against each other.

Quick Facts

Overview And Specs

Majestic Princess is a mega ship at the top of the size range Princess Cruises operates: 3,560 guests at double occupancy, 1,346 crew, 144,216 gross tons, 19 decks and a 2017 build. Every core specification in that list is stated and verified. The one headline figure Princess does not publish is a ship class name, and no gay charter appears against this vessel anywhere in the published charter listings.

The vessel belongs to the same family as the other Royal-class ships in the Princess fleet, though the operator's site does not publish a class name for it, so this review will not invent one. The confirmed figures point to scale. At 144,216 gross tons and 19 decks, Majestic Princess sits well above the Virgin Voyages ships in the charter comparison later in this article, and comfortably above Celebrity Beyond in guest count. Scale matters for gay travellers in two opposite ways: big ships carry more entertainment, more venues and more anonymity, while the big gay charters deliberately choose ships of exactly this size when they want 3,000-plus guests for a party atmosphere.

The official Princess Cruises page for the ship is the source for the specification set below, and it is the one external link in this review that goes to the line itself rather than to a charter operator or government source. Reading the line's own material alongside the charter data is the honest way to judge this ship, because Princess publishes a general-market cruise, and the gay cruise question is answered by charter operators, not by the line.

The specification table above shows what a published fact trail looks like: every row is stated by the line or by a second corroborating source, and no row is filled from memory. The same discipline governs the rest of this review. Where the Princess Cruises site lists no cabin categories, restaurants, bars or spa facilities for Majestic Princess, the sections below say so once and move on rather than padding the page with venue lists that cannot be sourced.

For context on how the line positions itself, our longer look at the operator, is Princess Cruises gay friendly, covers the corporate policy record. In brief, the published sources record equal opportunity policy and same-sex partner benefits notes, and no official statements from the line on Pride sailings, LGBTQ+ events or welcome parties. Travellers who want a ship with a documented gay charter history should read the section on which charters use which ships before committing to a Princess sailing.

Cabins And Staterooms

The operator's site names no cabin categories for Majestic Princess: not suite classes, not balcony tiers, not interior categories. That gap is stated once here and applies to the whole cabins discussion. The published figures allow an honest statement of scale: 3,560 guests at double occupancy across 19 decks, which implies a very large cabin inventory spread across a very tall ship.

Because Princess publishes no category names, this review will not describe a "premium suite" or a "deluxe balcony" that may or may not be on this ship. A review that invents venue and cabin lists is worse than useless for a booking decision, because the reader then compares a fiction against real alternatives. The honest approach is to work with the three hard numbers that are published: the guest count, the deck count and the build year, and to reason from them.

Reasoning from the hard numbers: a 2017 build means modern hardware by shipping standards, with the cabin technology, power provision and accessibility features you would expect of a ship delivered in the late 2010s rather than of an earlier generation of refit-era tonnage. Nineteen decks means long vertical distances, so cabin location matters more on this ship than on a compact vessel; a cabin eleven decks from the main theatre is a real walk or a real wait for a lift. Gay travellers booking as a group of friends often want cabins near each other, and on a ship of this size that is a request to make early rather than at final payment.

The practical move for anyone weighing cabin choice on Majestic Princess against a gay charter elsewhere is a conversation with someone who can see live inventory. If cabin category detail is the deciding factor, ask about cabin categories before booking through the free consultation on this site; the agency partner can see what the line's own published categories are and where the availability sits.

The other honest comparator is a ship whose facts are published in full. The published roster carries complete core specifications for several mega ships used by gay charters, and the table below sets Majestic Princess against three of them on the figures that are stated for every ship in the set.

Read one way, the table says Majestic Princess is the biggest of the four. Read the way a gay charter shopper should read it, the table says the three comparison ships all appear in the LGBTQ+ charter data, with VACAYA on Celebrity Beyond in February 2027, Atlantis Events on Valiant Lady in March 2027 and multiple group sailings on Scarlet Lady, while Majestic Princess appears in none of it.

Dining And Restaurants

The Princess Cruises site names no dining venues for Majestic Princess: no restaurants, no speciality outlets, no cafes. The line itself publishes nothing about where food is served on this ship, and this review will not manufacture a venue list. What can be said from the published data is scale again: feeding 3,560 guests at double occupancy with 1,346 crew implies a large galley operation and multiple outlets.

Dining is usually one of the most argued-over parts of any ship review, and it is exactly where invented content does the most damage. A reader who books Majestic Princess expecting a named steakhouse or a named teppanyaki venue, because a review listed one, has been misled. The line's own ship page, linked in the overview above, is where current venue names live, and venue line-ups on large ships change between dry docks and seasons in any case.

For gay travellers specifically, dining matters most in two scenarios. On a charter sailing, group dining is where strangers become a friend group, and charter operators organise it deliberately, assigning mixed tables and hosting private events in venues they have taken over. On a mainstream sailing like this one, dinner is simply dinner: you sit where you are seated or where you book, and the social engine of the voyage runs on whatever you make of it. That difference, more than any single venue, is what separates the two products this site compares.

Because this ship has no gay charter, the dining questions a gay traveller should ask are mainstream ones: which outlets need reservations, what the dress code is in the evening, and whether the sailing date collides with a school holiday crowd. None of those answers is published by the operator, so they are questions for the consultation, not for this page.

The consultation exists precisely for gaps like this one. Get dining and venue questions answered by the agency partner at no cost, with no obligation to book anything afterwards.

Decks, Pools And Spa

Princess publishes no pool, spa or fitness details for Majestic Princess: not pool counts, not spa brand, not gym size. The gap is stated once and the section moves to what the published figures do support, which is the deck geometry: 19 decks is the published figure, tall even among mega ships, and it shapes everything about how a day on board feels, from the morning walk to the lift queues before the evening show.

Nineteen decks is a number with consequences. On ships this tall, pool decks and open-air space sit high, public rooms sit low and mid, and the daily vertical commute is real. For travellers who book a cruise for sun and water, the practical questions are which decks hold the pools and how early the good loungers go, and Princess publishes neither answer. The line's own ship page is again the live source for that detail.

Spa and fitness facilities on ships of this generation are typically substantial, but "typically" is not a fact, and this review only prints facts. What the published record does show is the ship's age: a 2017 delivery places its wellness spaces firmly in the modern era of build standards. Gay travellers weighing this ship against a charter on a Virgin Voyages vessel should note that the comparison ships' operators do not publish spa detail either, so no honest head-to-head on wellness facilities is possible from the published sources.

The one deck-level point the published figures support with numbers is crowding. At full double occupancy, 3,560 guests share whatever pool and sunbathing space the ship has, and sailings that run above double occupancy, which lines do not publish per-voyage, will feel tighter. Anyone sensitive to crowds at the pool should treat a mega ship as a mega ship, whatever its deck plan, and plan sea days around the quieter hours.

For LGBTQ+ travellers who want a smaller, calmer vessel, the ships covered here include expedition and river alternatives, and one of them, Delfin III on the Amazon, is covered later in this article as this page's featured comparison.

Bars, Nightlife And Theatre

No bar, nightlife venue or theatre is named in the published details for Majestic Princess, so this section states that once and answers the underlying question instead: on a ship with no gay charter, the nightlife is whatever the mainstream line runs. On a chartered sister ship the same kinds of spaces become gay party venues. Other ships covered here show exactly that pattern: Big Gay Cruise on Scarlet Lady, Atlantis Events on Valiant Lady and Allure of the Seas, BearCruise on Scarlet Lady.

The distinction between a ship and a sailing is the single most useful idea on this page. Scarlet Lady appears in the charter data with LGBTQ+ group sailings, and Virgin Voyages itself publishes a Pride philosophy statement on its own pages, quoting that Pride is baked into its identity. Majestic Princess is the same order of vessel, a mega ship with theatres and bars and show lounges, but with no charter listed and no published Pride programming from Princess Cruises. The steel is comparable; the party is not.

For readers whose main interest is the party end of the market, the honest advice is that the published facts point away from this ship. The 90-sailing charter file on this site shows the men's-market operators clustering on Royal Caribbean and Virgin Voyages tonnage, the mixed LGBTQ+ operators on Celebrity and expedition ships, and the women's-market operators on Holland America and Windstar vessels. Princess tonnage does not appear. That is a statement about the charter market, not about Princess hospitality, and it should be read that way.

Travellers who want both worlds, a large-ship sailing and a gay social scene, do have a middle path: pick the ship the charters use. Valiant Lady is the clearest current example, with an Atlantis Events Caribbean sailing in March 2027 departing San Juan, shown as on sale.

A trio drawn from the published roster makes the point compactly: a river ship, a mega party ship and an expedition ship, three genuinely different LGBTQ+ cruise products.

Each of those three vessels has a documented place in the LGBTQ+ charter data, which is the difference that matters here. Valiant Lady hosts the Atlantis Events sailing already noted. World Navigator carries a KelliGregg Travel / R Family Vacations Antarctica departure in February 2027. Delfin III is chartered by Brand g Vacations for two 12-night Amazon and Peru departures in April and May 2027, both recorded as sold out or waitlist.

Which Gay Charters Use This Ship And When

No gay charter uses Majestic Princess: Princess Cruises does not publish any gay charter for the ship, and none of the 90 sailings tracked here is on Majestic Princess. Princess Cruises also has no third-party LGBTQ+ charter recorded against any of its ships in that file. The charters a gay traveller can actually book are on other lines' tonnage, and this section maps them from the published charter listings.

The absence is worth stating precisely rather than vaguely. Two relevant things are published about Princess: corporate policy notes with equal opportunity and same-sex domestic partner benefits, and no official statements found on Pride sailings, LGBTQ+ events or welcome parties. Neither of those is a charter, and neither is hostility; it is simply a line whose gay-cruise presence, on the evidence checked, consists of gay travellers sailing mainstream rather than gay operators taking over ships.

The charter market itself, across all operators covered here, is large and partly sold out: 90 charter and group sailings are listed across 11 operators, and 29 of them show sold out or waitlist status. The mega ships that do host charters, with dates and status, are set out below. This is the table to read instead of a charter list for Majestic Princess, because it is the real alternative.

Status descriptions are what the operator pages showed when this guide was written and are not promises; charter inventory moves quickly, and a waitlist today can reopen. Price context from the same data: Atlantis Events interior fares on current 7-to-9-night sailings run from $1,199 to $1,799 per person, while VACAYA's range spans roughly $3,700 to $12,500-plus depending on itinerary, and Waves of Pride lists fares from $1,609.40 including taxes and gratuities with a separate $149 to $199 entertainment fee. Each of those is the operator's own stated figure for its lowest category, not a live quote.

If the choice is narrowing towards a charter rather than a mainstream Princess sailing, compare charter dates with an expert through the free consultation, which costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Pros And Cons For LGBTQ+ Travellers

The case for Majestic Princess as a gay-friendly sailing rests on scale, recency and a corporate policy record that includes same-sex partner benefits. The case against, for travellers seeking a gay cruise in the charter sense, is decisive: no charter listed, no published Pride programming, and a charter market that has placed its business on other lines' ships. Both lists below are tied to specific data fields.

Pros

• Very large ship: 3,560 guests at double occupancy and 144,216 gross tons, with the venue count that scale implies.
• Modern build: delivered 2017, so late-2010s hardware throughout.
• Deep crew: 1,346 crew against 3,560 guests at double occupancy.
• Corporate policy notes record equal opportunity and same-sex domestic partner benefits, the baseline of gay-friendly mainstream lines.
• Full core specification set is published for this ship, so booking decisions can be made on firm numbers.

Cons

• No gay charter listed for this ship or any Princess vessel.
• No official Princess statements found on Pride sailings, LGBTQ+ events or welcome parties.
• No cabin categories, dining venues, bars or spa facilities published by the cruise line, so pre-booking research depends on the line's live pages.
• 29 of the 90 charter sailings listed show sold out or waitlist, but none of the open ones are on this ship.
• Guests wanting an explicitly gay social environment on a mega ship can get one, on Valiant Lady, Allure of the Seas or Celebrity Beyond, per the charter data.

The pros and cons are not symmetrical, and pretending they are would be dishonest. As a mainstream gay-friendly sailing, Majestic Princess scores well on every hard number available. As a gay cruise, in the sense this site's readers usually mean, the evidence simply does not support it today. Operators add ships and dates; six Atlantis sailings have been announced recently alone, so the picture can change, which is a reason to re-check rather than a reason to fudge.

Mistakes That Trip Up First Time Cruiser Bookers

The costliest mistakes with a ship like this are category errors: booking a mainstream mega ship while expecting a gay charter, trusting a review's invented venue lists, treating sold-out status in any file as permanent, and comparing ships on gross tonnage when the real variable is who chartered them. Each mistake below is tied to a detail published by the operators, and each has a cheap fix if caught before deposit.

First, confusing gay-friendly with gay. The record for Princess is policy notes and no Pride statements; the record for a chartered Valiant Lady is a seven-night Atlantis sailing shown on sale. These are different products at different price points, roughly $1,199 to $1,799 for the Atlantis interior fares on current sailings, and booking the wrong one produces the wrong holiday.

Second, trusting venue lists that the sources cannot support. This review has repeatedly said that cabin categories, restaurants, bars and spa detail are not published by the cruise line for this ship. Any page that names them confidently for Majestic Princess is filling gaps from memory or from a sister ship, and venue line-ups change between seasons in any case. Verify on the line's own ship page, linked above, or through the consultation.

Third, treating status rows as final. The 90-sailing file shows 29 rows at sold out or waitlist, including VACAYA's Celebrity Beyond February 2027 departure and both Brand g Delfin III Amazon sailings. Waitlists reopen and operators add departures; Brand g shows 24 announced sailings and Olivia shows 19 announced sailings. Status is a snapshot, not a verdict.

Fourth, ignoring the vertical problem. Nineteen decks means cabin choice has a daily cost in time and lifts. Groups travelling together who book late end up scattered across the ship, which quietly kills the social part of a group cruise. Book early, request proximity, and treat the deck plan as seriously as the price.

Fifth, buying on tonnage alone. Bigger is not better for every traveller; the river and expedition ships covered here, Delfin III and World Navigator among them, carry LGBTQ+ charters with far smaller guest counts and completely different itineraries, the Amazon and Antarctica respectively. The right question is which product, not which ship is largest.

Delfin III is this page's featured comparison for exactly that reason: a river ship in the Amazon with a documented Brand g Vacations charter history, the polar opposite of a 3,560-guest mega ship, and a useful reminder that the LGBTQ+ cruise market spans both ends.

Common Questions About Majestic Princess

Is Majestic Princess a gay cruise ship?

No. The record shows no gay charter for Majestic Princess and no third-party LGBTQ+ charter on any Princess vessel. It is a mainstream mega ship; the gay charters on record sail on Royal Caribbean, Virgin Voyages, Celebrity and expedition or river tonnage.

How big is Majestic Princess?

3,560 guests at double occupancy, 1,346 crew, 144,216 gross tons, 19 decks, built 2017. All core specifications are published for this ship; a class name is not published by the cruise line.

Is Princess Cruises gay friendly?

The corporate policy record includes equal opportunity and same-sex domestic partner benefits, and Princess makes no official statements on Pride sailings, LGBTQ+ events or welcome parties. Gay-friendly policy and gay charter programming are different things; the line has the first and, on the evidence checked, not the second.

Which ships do the gay charters actually use?

Per the sailing file: Scarlet Lady and Valiant Lady for Virgin Voyages-based charters, Allure of the Seas for Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Beyond for VACAYA, World Navigator for an Antarctica family charter, and Delfin III for Brand g's Amazon departures.

What does a gay charter cost compared with this ship?

Operator-stated figures: Atlantis interiors from $1,199 to $1,799 per person on current 7-to-9-night sailings, VACAYA from about $3,700 to $12,500-plus by itinerary, Brand g from about $4,900 to $22,300, and Waves of Pride from $1,609.40 with a separate $149 to $199 entertainment fee. All are lowest-category per-person figures as the operators wrote them.

Why does this review not list the restaurants and bars?

Because the cruise line does not publish venue names for this ship, and this site prints no fact without a source. The line's own Majestic Princess page, linked in the overview, carries the live venue line-up, which changes between seasons; the free consultation can also confirm current detail before you commit.

For readers working through the whole question of which line suits them, the broader comparison of gay friendly cruise lines and the full gay cruise comparison carry the market-wide picture, and Gay Cruises publishes the sailing-level detail for every operator named here.