Princess Cruises has added a new onboard payment option on one of their cruise ships and is now the first cruise line to offer both Alipay and WeChat Pay payments onboard a cruise ship in North America.
Passengers on Ruby Princess can now use Alipay and WeChat Pay payment options while shopping in the boutiques on the ship.
Alipay and WeChat Pay are China’s top-two popular forms of digital payment. Alipay is China’s most popular digital wallet service and lifestyle platform and is expanding to in-store, offline payments both inside and outside of China.
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Alipay’s in-store payment service covers over 40 countries and regions across the world. Currently, over 900 million people use the system for digital transactions globally. WeChat Pay is another widely used digital wallet service and mobile payment app in China. WeChat Pay now has 800 million monthly active users worldwide and total volume a year in 2017 was about 6.5 trillion USD.
Princess Cruises is committed to provide amenities to its Chinese guests making payments during international travel more seamless by offering home-away-from-home comforts on select ships including Chinese language menus, Chinese culinary dishes, Chinese onboard hosts, Chinese-language shore excursions. Now, we are pleased to offer our Chinese guests the ability to pay for boutique purchases onboard utilizing the top-two payment methods used by Chinese consumers.
Guests first used the convenient digital payment platforms of Alipay and WeChat Pay in The Shops of Princess onboard Majestic Princess, the first luxury cruise ship tailor-made for the Chinese market in 2017 during the cruise ship’s summer deployment in Shanghai.
Ruby Princess is currently sailing week long cruises to the Mexican Riviera from Los Angeles. The ship will relocate to Seattle in May for the summer Alaska cruise season.
Princess Cruises is one of the world’s leading cruise lines with 17 cruise ships in service.
