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Mediterranean cruises from Paris, Basel, Split, Budapest, Barcelona, Naples or Palermo in May 2027

129 sailings on 17 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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129 Mediterranean sailings from Paris, Basel, Split, Budapest, Barcelona, Naples or Palermo leave in May 2027; 119 of them, on 14 lines, have a balcony cabin for sale. The lowest balcony price per night is $144 per person, on MSC Cruises' MSC Virtuosa (7 nights from Barcelona, May 11, $1,006 for the cruise). Running below their usual balcony price this month: MSC Cruises (15% under). Running above it: Disney (63% over), Explora Journeys (42% over) and Princess (14% over). Prices per person with taxes and port fees, read from the booking page Oct 10, 2026.

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Rhapsody of the Seas · Barcelona
Brilliance of the Seas · Barcelona
Explorer of the Seas · Barcelona
Mariner of the Seas · Barcelona
Viking Jupiter · Barcelona
Viking Mars · Barcelona
Oosterdam · Barcelona
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Seven Seas Grandeur · Barcelona
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Star Explorer · Barcelona
Queen Elizabeth · Barcelona
AmaVerde · Budapest
AmaMagna · Budapest
AmaBella · Budapest
Avalon Tapestry II · Paris
Avalon Illumination · Budapest
Avalon View · Basel
Avalon Passion · Budapest

Striped: 10 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, Basel, Split, Budapest, Barcelona, Naples or Palermo in May 2027: the lines compared (balcony cabins)

Cruise lineSailingsShipsLowest price, whole cruiseTypical per nightAgainst its usual
Royal Caribbean105 $1,126 Mariner of the Seas, May 11, 7 nights $278 typical (-2%)
MSC Cruises548 $1,006 MSC Virtuosa, May 11, 7 nights $180 ▼ 15% under
Norwegian52 $1,519 Norwegian Epic, May 16, 7 nights $260 typical (-3%)
Disney21 $3,576 Disney Wish, May 22, 7 nights $546 ▲ 63% over
Princess21 $2,448 Sun Princess, May 23, 7 nights $332 ▲ 14% over
Celebrity73 $1,724 Celebrity Equinox, May 20, 9 nights $232 typical (-4%)
Viking Ocean43 $4,799 Viking Mars, May 29, 14 nights $808 ▲ 12% over
Holland America11 $4,589 Oosterdam, May 25, 18 nights $255 typical (+7%)
Silversea31 $6,100 Silver Ray, May 12, 9 nights $678 typical (+9%)
Virgin42 $1,743 Resilient Lady, May 16, 7 nights $269 typical (+3%)
Cunard11 $4,489 Queen Elizabeth, May 14, 21 nights $214 typical (-7%)
AmaWaterways33 $6,278 AmaVerde, May 10, 7 nights $911 ▲ 10% over
Costa214 $634 Costa Favolosa, May 10, 3 nights $190 typical (0%)
Explora Journeys21 $5,215 EXPLORA I, May 17, 7 nights $721 ▲ 42% over

Per person, taxes and port fees included, read from the booking page Oct 10, 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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