Prince Cruise

Prince has four cabins. That is the proposition, and it is why this page is short.

The count is verified across sources rather than resting on the operator’s word, which makes it one of the few solid things here. Four cabins changes the trip in both directions. The crew will know who you are by lunch on the first day, and there is nowhere on a boat that size to be left alone if that is what you wanted instead.

Nobody publishes the capacity, so we cannot turn four cabins into a guest number. Four doubles would be eight people. If one of them takes a third bed it is nine. The operator does not say, and no other source does either.

The hull is wood, and the operator gives 2009 as the launch year. Nobody publishes a refit date. On a wooden boat working this bay that is the number that actually matters, because hulls here get rebuilt in sections over the years rather than replaced outright, and a cabin refurbished last winter and one untouched since launch are the same boat on paper. Ask when the rooms were last done. A vague answer is itself an answer.

A spa is verified. So is kayaking. Past that the specification runs out: no source we checked mentions a balcony, a jacuzzi, a pool or a gym, and nobody publishes a cabin floor area. One of the operator’s own photographs shows a bathtub in a cabin with the karsts through the window, so at least one room has one. Which room, and whether it will be yours, is stated nowhere.

What a cabin costs

There is no rate sheet. Listings collected on 7 August 2026 put the two-day trip between $205 and $398 per person, and nothing the operator publishes corroborates either end. A range that nearly doubles is not a price. It is a sign the listings are describing different things: different seasons, different rooms, or a whole-boat rate sitting in the same column as a shared one.

$205 a head is also a lot to ask for a seventeen-year-old wooden boat with four rooms, and we would want the quote in front of us before believing it. On a boat this small there is a better question anyway. Ask what the whole thing costs for your dates. Four cabins is close to a charter already, and operators at this size will often quote one.

Where it goes

Six named stops inside Bai Tu Long: the lagoon at Cong Dam, the Cong Do area, Hon Co island, the cave at Thien Canh Son, the water off Cap La, and the village floating at Vung Vieng. Cong Dam is the one to notice. It sits at the far end of the bay, and boats on the standard two-day loop mostly turn round before reaching it, so if the list holds this is a longer run than the money suggests. We have not matched it against a published sailing plan. It comes from route data, not from an hour-by-hour schedule the operator stands behind.

Departure is from Hon Gai Pier, on the operator’s word alone. Most Ha Long boats leave from Tuan Chau Marina and that is where a driver will head unless you say otherwise. The two are on opposite sides of the Bai Chay bridge.

The score

Google shows 9.2 across 63 reviews, and we collected no English ones, so the figure arrives without any evidence attached to it. Sixty-three is a thin sample in absolute terms. On a four-cabin boat carrying a fraction of the guests a larger ship carries in a season, it is not the warning sign the same number would be on a twenty-cabin ship.

Who it suits

Two or three couples travelling together who would rather have the boat close to themselves than have a pool, and who will ask for a whole-boat price. The empty bay suits that kind of trip. If you are still choosing between bays, the differences are real.

Who should look elsewhere

Anyone who wants to see what they are buying. There is no exterior photograph of this ship in anything the operator has released, no cabin size, no refit year and no rate sheet, which is a lot of blanks to accept at $205 a head. The small-boat category has boats of a similar size whose operators publish more, and on thin data that is worth something in itself.