At 27.11m (89ft), the Princess X90 packs in a main-deck owner's cabin, skylounge, separate wheelhouse and crew accommodation without feeling as though the layout has been forced.
Princess X90
- LOA 26.77m
- Model Year 2026
- Cabins 4
- Crew 3
- Max Speed 26 knots
- Status In Production
- Yacht Type Superyacht
- Use Type Cruising
- Vessel M/Y Jenny X
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Princess X90 At A Glance
Why you'll love it
- Main deck owner's suite with private foredeck access
- Separate skylounge and wheelhouse
- Four guest cabins, with five-cabin option
Things to Know
- Enclosed upper deck means no vast open flybridge
On Deck
The big change aft is one you can't actually see. Princess has moved the crew quarters away from the stern, which frees up far more space down here and allows the bathing platform to sit much closer to the water. It can take a tender up to 4.6m and there is a drop-down balcony alongside. This boat also has the optional hot tub, but leave that off and the seating runs right back to the glass transom. Frankly, we'd be tempted by the extra seating.
Step up to the main deck and things get clever. The dining area sits inside a set of curved glass doors that wrap right around it. Open them and it is effectively outside dining; shut them and you have a fully enclosed dining room. That means Princess hasn't had to squeeze another dining table into the saloon. The table itself extends and slides across the deck too, so it can sit centrally when everyone is eating or move out of the way to leave a decent passage through. There are fridges, a wine cooler and storage for the extra chairs nearby. All very sensible.
The foredeck is another good bit of thinking. Cleats, fairleads and the anchor gear all sit beneath covers, so once the boat is tied up they disappear and leave a large, flat guest area with seating, optional sunpad infill and shade from carbon poles. The rails are high too. It still works as a proper foredeck when the crew need it, but you don't have to sit among the deck gear once the work is done.
There is an optional powered door straight from the owner's cabin onto this area, and Princess says roughly half of buyers have gone for it. It gives the owner a private route outside and, from there, steps lead directly up to the upper deck. Don't want the door? Princess carries the glazing and storage on instead. Either way works.
There is yet more space on the upper deck. The aft section is largely owner-spec, with loose furniture and a long overhang for shade, plus an extra extending canopy. Forward of that is a proper outside dining area with a sink, barbecue and fridge, while a more substantial bar can be fitted if that is more your thing.
Better still, all these areas actually join up properly. Crew can step straight from the galley onto the side deck, there is a side boarding door for use alongside, and the owner can leave the main-deck cabin, walk onto the foredeck and head upstairs without going back through the saloon. Add the deep lockers, high rails and covered deck gear and it is all very Princess - only on a scale that makes you check the length twice.
Interior Accommodation
Inside, the X90 feels much more familiar. The layout may be new territory for Princess, but the finish isn't. This boat has grey oak in satin, with river oak, lighter ash and walnut also available, and the joinery has the solid, well-fitted feel you'd expect. There is no formal dining table in the saloon because Princess has already dealt with that aft, which leaves this as a dedicated lounge rather than another room trying to do two jobs.
Forward, the galley can be as open or as private as the owner wants. A large opening creates a useful bar between it and the saloon, but a panel rises to close it off, while buyers can go further and specify a larger, permanently enclosed galley. Inside there are twin ovens, a full-size dishwasher, a big sink, plenty of refrigeration and pull-out pantry storage. Better still, crew can step straight out onto the side deck. It's a serious galley for a 90-footer, not somewhere that has lost half its cupboards to make another cabin fit.
Princess has found useful space in less obvious places too. There is another wine cooler, storage for the extra dining chairs and plenty of room for glassware. Even the staircase earns its keep, with the routes up and down packed into much the same part of the boat rather than spread across two big lobbies.
That matters upstairs because it leaves room for a full skylounge. This isn't a token settee outside the wheelhouse, but a second enclosed saloon with large rooflights overhead and direct access to the upper deck aft. A pocket door separates it from the wheelhouse, so guests get their own space while the business of running the boat stays behind closed doors.
That's really the trick with the X90 interior. Nothing feels especially squeezed, yet there is a main saloon, full galley, skylounge and separate wheelhouse before we've even got to the cabins. Rather than one vast open-plan interior, Princess has given the boat a surprising number of proper rooms. That makes it feel like a much bigger yacht.
Wheelhouse
The X90 has a separate wheelhouse instead of a helm worked into the saloon, and that immediately changes the feel of the boat. A pocket door closes it off from the skylounge, so this is very much the working end of the yacht.
The forward-raked screens help keep direct sun off the glass, while three large displays sit across the helm, with five available if the owner wants more. One screen handles the yacht’s operating systems, while the others can be set up for navigation and other data. FLIR, communications, autopilot, joystick, engine controls and bow and stern thrusters are all grouped here too.
There is a wing station outside for close-quarters work, plus extra crew seating alongside the bridge. Main AC and DC switching is easy to reach and there is space for the usual bridge-office kit as well. None of that is glamorous, but it makes the area feel like somewhere intended to run a yacht from rather than somewhere designed just to look impressive.
Owner's Cabin
The owner's cabin is forward on the main deck and, unusually for a yacht this size, everything stays on one level. A walk-through dressing area leads into a wide bedroom with plenty of space around the bed, big windows, a dressing table and a pop-up TV. The bathroom is equally generous, with a large shower, separate toilet and plenty of room to move. Nothing here feels as though it has been pushed into the bow simply to get a main-deck owner's cabin onto the spec sheet.
The optional powered door onto the foredeck is a neat addition. It gives the owner a private route outside and straight up to the upper deck, although buyers who don't want it gain extra glazing and storage instead.
Guest Accommodation
Downstairs, the surprise is just how little the accommodation drops away in status. In the standard layout, the large forward cabin is closer to a second owner's suite than a conventional VIP, with big wardrobes, a dressing area, seating and its own bathroom. For two couples, whether privately or on charter, there isn't much danger of anyone feeling short-changed.
There is another option here too. Princess can divide this large cabin down the middle to create two separate guest cabins, taking the X90 to five cabins overall. One pair of single beds can power together into a double, so the layout still has some useful flexibility rather than simply cramming in more berths.
Two further cabins aft mirror each other, with large hull windows, wardrobes and en suites finished much like the rest of the accommodation. They're smaller, naturally, but still very good rooms - on a 50-footer you wouldn't raise an eyebrow if one of them belonged to the owner.
Crew Accommodation
Moving the crew quarters away from the stern has done more than free up space outside. It has also given the X90 a much more serious working area.
Access is straight down from the galley, with another route out onto the side deck, so crew can move between service areas without constantly crossing the guest spaces. Down below there is a mess with its own small galley, refrigeration, oven and TV, plus a separate laundry room - unusual enough on a 90-footer to be worth mentioning.
The standard layout has a captain's cabin and a twin-bunk crew cabin sharing a good-sized bathroom with a separate shower. There are options to add more berths too, with the laundry and bathroom arrangements altered to suit, taking the area to as many as three crew cabins and two heads.
Performance & Engine Room
The X90's top speed is about 25 knots, with around 20 knots at cruise. The more interesting figures come at displacement speeds - Princess claims roughly 1,600nm at 10 knots and 2,500nm at 8 knots. That gives her useful legs when getting somewhere quickly matters less than how far you can go.
For a 90-footer with this much accommodation, the engine room is remarkably easy to move around. There is space around the engines, good access to the generators and a separate area aft for the steering gear and rudder stocks. An emergency ladder leads straight to deck level, while the exhaust silencers and sound insulation are substantial. Whether that translates into genuinely low noise under load is another matter.
The installation looks well thought through too. Cables and hoses are individually labelled and most of the machinery is get-at-able rather than buried behind something else. That's encouraging, although the real test of any engine room comes later, when filters, belts and larger components need to come out rather than simply be inspected.
Still, there is plenty to like here. Princess has left enough room for engineers to work and, on a yacht this size, that matters rather more than a beautifully polished engine-room floor.
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Pricing
Price as reviewed: US$15,000,000 (£11,327,250 approx)
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Rivals to Consider
The Sirena 88 is probably the most obvious place to start. At 26.81m (88ft) it is almost bang on the X90 for length, but its 7.10m (23ft) beam gives it a bit more width to play with. It also offers a main-deck owner's cabin, four or five cabins overall and a private route from the owner's suite onto the foredeck. Twin MAN V12s give up to 27 knots, while a quoted 2,460nm at 9 knots gives it useful long-range ability too. The big difference is upstairs. Sirena gives you a huge open flybridge, whereas the Princess uses that level for an enclosed skylounge and separate wheelhouse. If you spend most of your time in warm weather, the Sirena's open upper deck has obvious appeal. The X90 feels more like a small superyacht inside.
The Ocean Alexander 90R Enclosed is perhaps the closest match to the X90's basic idea. At 27.43m (90ft), it has a main-deck owner's suite, an enclosed upper lounge and four or five cabins, plus similar 27-knot performance. It is a big, bluff-looking yacht compared with the cleaner Princess, but the appeal is much the same - lots of separation between guests, owner and crew without stepping into a much longer boat. The catch is that the 90R Enclosed is no longer in production, so this is a used-boat alternative. That may not be a bad thing if the right example comes along.
The Sanlorenzo SX88 takes a very different route. It is 26.7m (88ft) long but a chunky 7.21m (24ft) wide, and Sanlorenzo makes good use of that beam. The helm moves upstairs, which leaves the main deck as one long living space, while the stern opens into the large beach and tender area that has become the SX line's calling card. Triple Volvo IPS1050s give around 23 knots. Layouts vary, with some boats putting the owner's cabin on the main deck and others down below, so there is more semi-custom freedom than you get with the Princess. What you don't get is the X90's enclosed skylounge and separate bridge. The Sanlorenzo feels more open and architectural; the Princess gives you more distinct rooms.
There's also the Numarine 26XP, which comes at the problem from the other end. At 25.89m (85ft) it is actually shorter than the X90, but the tall explorer styling, huge flybridge and long-range focus make it feel like a different sort of yacht altogether. The owner is down on the lower deck rather than forward on the main deck, so that is an obvious compromise if the X90's owner's suite is one of its big attractions. On the other hand, the 26XP puts far more emphasis on range and outdoor space, and some versions have considerably more long-distance ability than the Princess. It is the one to look at if crossing miles matters more than having a skylounge and main-deck master.
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Specifications
- Builder Princess
- Range X Class
- Model X90
- Length Overall 26.77m
- Beam 6.62m
- Draft 1.79m
- Hull GRP
- Cabins 4
- Berths 4
- Crew 3
- Yacht Type (Primary) Superyacht
- Use Type (Primary) Cruising
- Cruising Speed
- Max Speed
- Fuel Capacity 11,000 Litres
- Fresh Water Capacity 1,500 Litres
- Engine Model 2x MAN V12-2000
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