22 lines, 30,362 sailings, every price checked nightly.
162 other sailings leave in December 2026; 142 of them, on 12 lines, have a balcony cabin for sale. The lowest balcony price per night is $136 per person, on Princess' Ruby Princess (16 nights from San Francisco, Dec 26, $2,179 for the cruise). Running below their usual balcony price this month: Windstar (25% under), Viking River (19% under) and Viking Ocean (13% under). Running above it: Carnival (16% over) and Disney (12% over). Prices per person with taxes and port fees, read from the booking page Oct 1, 2026.
162 sailings on 12 lines (4 hidden). Prices per person for the whole cruisePrices for two sharing a cabin, whole cruisePrices per person, per night, taxes & port fees included.
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Each line is folded to one row: its price range, and a dot on every day one of its ships sails, coloured by the best sailing that day. Tap a line to open it ship by ship: each bar is one sailing, from the day it leaves for as many nights as it lasts; the outlined bar is the cheapest here. Sailings are listed in the month they leave; a bar ending in → continues into next month. Tap a bar to open that sailing. “Usual” is the typical price of the same cabin on other dates of the same sailing, else the same ship or line at that length. Taxes and port fees included, except Viking River, whose prices exclude them.
| Cruise line | Sailings | Ships | Lowest price, whole cruise | Typical per night | Against its usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carnival | 25 | 7 | $452 Carnival Conquest, Dec 11, 3 nights | $186 | ▲ 16% over |
| Royal Caribbean | 8 | 2 | $1,336 Quantum of the Seas, Dec 4, 8 nights | $216 | typical (+6%) |
| MSC Cruises | 51 | 8 | $164 MSC Virtuosa, Dec 1, 1 nights | $224 | typical (+3%) |
| Disney | 1 | 1 | $2,029 Disney Wish, Dec 24, 4 nights | $507 | ▲ 12% over |
| Princess | 7 | 5 | $2,019 Royal Princess, Dec 5, 13 nights | $164 | typical (-8%) |
| Viking Ocean | 7 | 4 | $3,799 Viking Mars, Dec 17, 10 nights | $529 | ▼ 13% under |
| Oceania | 3 | 2 | $4,530 Oceania Riviera, Dec 3, 12 nights | $388 | ▼ 11% under |
| Holland America | 2 | 1 | $3,724 Oosterdam, Dec 4, 15 nights | $274 | typical (+7%) |
| Viking River | 5 | 1 | $3,899 Viking Mississippi, Dec 22, 7 nights | $657 | ▼ 19% under |
| Windstar | 4 | 2 | $3,831 Star Breeze, Dec 3, 7 nights | $579 | ▼ 25% under |
| AmaWaterways | 8 | 2 | $8,268 AmaDahlia, Dec 16, 11 nights | $847 | typical (-2%) |
| Costa | 21 | 2 | $670 Costa Diadema, Dec 2, 3 nights | $240 | typical (+8%) |
Per person, taxes and port fees included, read from the booking page Oct 1, 2026. “Against its usual” is the middle of this line’s sailings here, each compared with the same cabin on other dates of the same sailing, else the same ship or line at that length.
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