Love this!!! I sneaked on board as a teenager with my camera to shoot pics “for a school report”. 😂 I was a mega fan even at 12, 13 years old. My dad “paid off” the guard with a 6-pack of beer. Only a few photos exist and I don’t know where they are anymore but the memories are seared in my mind. Love this trip down memory lane. Thank goodness for your love of ships and your archives! ❤

The original Princesses really were ahead of the curve. Sleek and compact, but a very efficient use of space. Great tour. Their fates are a real shame and a tragic ending to two glorious ships 😢

I really appreciate the way you showcase these lost beauties. My sister worked on Island before I was assigned to Pacific. I'm so appreciative we each got to have time on a Love Boat. It's not something that most people can claim!

This brings back memories, I sailed on her on a Trans-Canal cruise in 81 and Alaska in 82, as well on a Mexican Riviera Cruise on the Pacific Princess in 83.Thanks for posting this!

Love this, worked on her in 93 and did europe, the med, middle east and malasia, indonesia, far east, south pacific, new zealand, australia aboard, wonderful memories. I do recognise some of the crew in the video.

In the late 80's I was a travel agent in Miami. One Christmas Season, there was a "Cruise Ship Extravaganza" in Port Everglades of that time. I got to board, tour, and eat aboard many of the ships. The Island/Pacific Princesses, Cunard Countess/Princess, Stella Solaris, and a few others were sailing off for Christmas Cruises over that week/weekend. We got very loaded on Ouzo on the Stella Solaris and heralded the passengers from the dock with Christmas carols as the ship sailed away. You don't get very lucky to board all those ships these days, and all of those ships are no longer in service and/or scrapped now. When I was growing up, I had all those cruise brochures, and every Saturday night at 9pm, I would sit in front of the tv with my brochure and check the cabins as Julie checked people in. I was very surprised on the PP how small her cabins really were. Promenade 348 was always the top cabin for guests.

Thank You for documenting passenger/cruise ships for posterity. The 3 ships my own 5 cruises were on, have all been scrapped for quite a while now. My awareness of that is largely due to your KZfaq channel. I was on the Canberra's solar eclipse cruise (NYC-Tenerife-eclipse-Dakar-NYC) in 1973 as a 15yo traveling alone, sharing a porthole cabin with 3 strangers. On rough days, crew would bolt the porthole shut, and indeed we'd get some underwater views of the middle of the Atlantic. Other than seeing the longest remaining total solar eclipse happening in my lifetime, the highlight was playing ping pong with another kid, the only two people in the ping pong room, when his father came in and watched us finish a game before telling him that his mom wanted him in the cabin in 35 minutes. Neil Armstrong. The son was one of the best-matched ping pong players on the ship for me. I beat most other kids, but he beat me probably 75-80% of the time. Between the ping pong encounter, and my probably being the only person on the ship who didn't ever bother him for a photo, autograph, or moon story, Neil came over and spoke to me anytime he saw me for the rest of the cruise. Sometimes likely to escape the small swarms of people who would invariably gather around him. There was not an ounce of conceit in this man who could have won a game of one-upmanship with anyone, or looked down on or ignored anyone, had he chosen to. Just a nice, normal guy who had done extraordinary things. It made me even more a student of the Apollo missions than I already was. The surprising result is that Neil was not only super competent, but even brighter and more hard-working than you'd assume. Though the most famous and most appreciated astronaut, it turns out he is still the most underrated, in my opinion. My honeymoon cruise NYC-Bermuda-NYC in 1979 was on the Volendam (orig Brasil) during a tugboat strike in NYC which prevented refueling there. Every 3 weeks (including our week) it had to stop in Chesapeake Bay for a day of refueling. Sunbathing to the smell of oil being pumped aboard, and less time in Bermuda, was less than ideal, but it was one more unique memory. From 1996 to perhaps 2000ish, my parents took about 10-12 of us on three 5-day cruises on the Regal Empress (orig Olympia) . Very pleasant and memorable pre-9/11 cruises from NYC, on a grand old ship, albeit beyond her prime. Ports the various times included Bermuda, Newport, Martha's Vineyard, Provincetown, Boston, Portland, Bar Harbor, Saint John, and Halifax. Interestingly, the modern era of solar eclipse cruises began on her in 1972 as the Olympia. There was also a (nudist!) eclipse cruise on her in 1998, and I saw her in port in Aruba soon after the eclipse, during my own ground-based eclipse trip.

After STARWARD, Freeport I, and SKYWARD, another masterpiece of German shipbuilding. Thank you for this great report on this great ship. That it always stays in our memory.

I love the Island Princess that I sailed several times between 2005 and 2020

I love those old cruise ships.

Thank you Peter for this interesting walk through of the Island Princess, as well as those brief glimpses of some of her Island Venture interiors. I have to confess that it took decades for me to warm to her or her sister. I had seen them in various places but had never felt any interest in sailing on either of them. Probably the fact that I was less than enchanted by Princess Cruises had a lot to do with that. Then suddenly, in the final years of their lives, I 'got it'.... something about them seemed to just 'click' in my mind. I sailed on Island Princess when she was Discovery, during her final season sailing in the Far East. After all of that time I was suddenly charmed by her and appreciated her quite sophisticated design features. That dreadful casino had gone when I sailed on her, what an eyesore they are. Also, how lovely she looked internally as built, the forward-facing Antilles Lounge looked as though it was a delightful space, whereas the show lounge that replaced it was simply boring - as most show lounges are. What a pity that Flagship Cruises was an unsuccessful venture. After they had sold the twin ships to Princess Cruises they acquired that other Tilberg gem, Kungsholm but it was not long before she was bought by P&O and would for a short while even sail for Princess. Thanks again.

Amazing video. Thank you so much for sharing this. I was fortunate to sail on both the PP and the IP several times. Although I was VERY young, I remember these classics ships like I sailed on them yesterday. And I miss them greatly. Such incredibly designed vessels. I can only think of one word to describe them, Perfect! Thank you for keeping the spirit of the Island Princess alive!

I miss these centrally position dining rooms, because they were great at controlling sea sickness!

I enjoyed this video Peter Knego. It made me want to go on a cruise on her. She was really stylish just like her sister. Can't wait for the second part.

Absolutely wonderful! So glad you are doing these vlogs !! These are 2 of my favorite cruise ship designs and concepts of all time. My first cruise was on the original Oriana as a child but the closest i got to these 2 cruise ship gems was a 1988 coastal cruise aboard the original Princess Sun Princess. Thanks for letting me finally 'get onboard' through this vlog!

I worked on the Pacific and Island Princess from 84 to 94 as head waiter. I recognize the Maitre D'hotel Lorenzo Tarini in the video of the Coral dining room.Good times. Greetings from Italy.

Eagerly waiting for part 2 & anything you have filmed aboard Sitmar & Royal Viking Line ships!

I was in the Navy in Long Beach in the early 90’s and still remember the first time I saw the “Love Boat” while driving over the bridge to San Pedro.

This was very interesting to see. Tillberg Design also designed a lot of cruiseferries in the 80's and 90's such as the m/s Olympia and m/s Mariella. Those ships were really ahead of it's time but I can see where Tillberg got some inspiration from. 👍😍

I had no idea the 1966 Kungsholm was a Tillberg design. You lean something new every day. Absolutely gorgeous ship, pity about that forward funnel removal that was, to put it politely, less than successful looks wise.

I got photo of her on one of her Alaska cruises I passed her just south of Prince Rupert BC in June 1998 Wich was very late in the night are you going to do one on the Pacific Princess and the Holland America ships that would be great to see

What a wonderful tour of this beautiful ship.. In pre 9/11 times, I was able to sneak aboard in Le Havre while in port on the Norway in 9/1996. I didnt bring my camera unfortunately. But it was so lovely to revisit her.. I hadn't been aboard since 2/5/72 on her maiden visit to NYC.. Thanks for this great video!!!

Great vid. Island Princess was the first ship I dispatched for Princess. Many great memories of her and onboard staff. Partying till wee hours in tiny disco. P347 Was the only suite with a king sized bed. We had to put it in for comedian Jackie Gleason (he was a big fella) till the end we always called it the Jackie Gleason Suite. RIP my lil IP.💖

Another fantastic video Peter and a great piece of history! Thank you.

I really loved this class of ships

Thank you for sharing this. I was group escort for a Captain's Circle cruise to Egypt & the Holy Land on the IP back in '93. I loved her so much and it was wonderful to revisit my memories of her. A beautiful small ship - I spent too many hours in the Pirate's Cove!

This was really neat, I always wished I could have sailed on her or the Pacific Princess. I wish I had known how to visit when they were docked in San Pedro, but I was just a high school kid in the 80's.

I just ordered 3 of the ceiling tiles from the Antilles Lounge (Carousel Lounge). Very excited to receive them.

I’d be lurking at the Skaal Bar. Great music in your vids.

I still think of them as the perfect ships. I only got on board 2x, 1 as Island Venture on 2/5/72 and then on 9/10/96 in LeHavre. I sneaked on board in the days pre 9/11 when you could. I didn’t have my camera, but I made a quick visit and was thrilled to see her again

🙂 I worked on The Pacific Princess in the early 1990s. Wonderful ship.

Thanks for the memories, enjoyed a 10 day Alaska cruise on her in 98.

On the ship that size a casino is more of a hindrance than an attraction

I think I liked it better with the Antilles lounge than with all those half those half rounded couches

Nice tour thank you. What were they thinking painting those beautiful ceiling tiles white!? They ruined a beautiful room

Hi ! when you made these fabulous footage did you imagine that one day they would be seen by people all over the world?

Skaal bar. Skaal means Cher's in Norwegian. I'm Norwegian 🇳🇴🇳🇴

Everyone can watch THE LOVE BOAT 24/7 on its own channel on TUBI TV, which is totally free!

Don't you have some of those tiles that were painted white on the ceiling of your house where you restore them to their original finish? Have an excellent day

I wish those glass panels were saved a lot of stuff was destroyed in a leg when they just tore through their ships to get the recyclable material out of them And what made them hard to resell was those fiat engines I came with my God that's where the worst choice I ever could have chosen

Did either the Island Princess or the Pacific Princess have the Pirates Cove, like on the TV show The Love Boat?

What's the name of the first song?

Wasn't there another one named the Sun Princess?

I like the original furniture the island princess and the Pacific princess had the stuff they replaced it with was just so generic and tackey

Where’s Part Two? This is only Part One!

I’ve actually heard the Island Princess was the better of the two sisters?

The bow of the ship looks so cluttered

So where's Isaac the bartender Oh wrong ship

staterooms weren't in video would have liked to see