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Mediterranean cruises from Paris, Barcelona, Budapest, Split or Palermo in July 2028

68 Mediterranean sailings from Paris, Barcelona, Budapest, Split or Palermo leave in July 2028; 63 of them, on 10 lines, have a balcony cabin for sale. The lowest balcony price per night is $200 per person, on Celebrity's Celebrity Eclipse (10 nights from Barcelona, Jul 22, $1,998 for the cruise). Running below their usual balcony price this month: Viking Ocean (12% under). Running above it: MSC Cruises (13% over). Prices per person with taxes and port fees, read from the booking page Oct 3, 2026.

68 sailings on 12 lines. 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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Norwegian Dawn · Barcelona
Norwegian Viva · Barcelona
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Viking Vela · Barcelona
Viking Jupiter · Barcelona
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Oceania Aurelia · Barcelona
Nieuw Amsterdam · Barcelona
Seven Seas Grandeur · Barcelona
Valiant Lady · Barcelona
AmaBella · Budapest
Avalon Expression · Budapest
Avalon Impression · Budapest

Striped: 5 sailings have no balcony price listed in the last two weeks. The bar shows the cheapest cabin that is priced (or, where none is, the lowest fare in the Cruisebound catalog); tap it for that sailing.

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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.

Mediterranean cruises from Paris, Barcelona, Budapest, Split or Palermo in July 2028: the lines compared (balcony cabins)

Cruise lineSailingsShipsLowest price, whole cruiseTypical per nightAgainst its usual
MSC Cruises407 $1,481 MSC Musica, Jul 3, 7 nights $251 ▲ 13% over
Norwegian22 $3,199 Norwegian Dawn, Jul 12, 10 nights $359 typical (+2%)
Princess21 $3,474 Sun Princess, Jul 9, 14 nights $252 typical (-1%)
Celebrity62 $1,860 Celebrity Xcel, Jul 15, 7 nights $272 typical (+1%)
Viking Ocean43 $6,999 Viking Vela, Jul 4, 12 nights $590 ▼ 12% under
Oceania11 $6,249 Oceania Aurelia, Jul 4, 14 nights $446 typical (-9%)
Holland America11 $3,464 Nieuw Amsterdam, Jul 16, 14 nights $247 typical (0%)
Virgin21 $1,813 Valiant Lady, Jul 2, 7 nights $259 typical (0%)
AmaWaterways32 $5,288 AmaVerde, Jul 3, 7 nights $755 typical (-6%)
Explora Journeys21 $8,995 EXPLORA II, Jul 10, 7 nights $964 typical (-1%)

Per person, taxes and port fees included, read from the booking page Oct 3, 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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