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Mediterranean cruises from Paris, Seattle, Barcelona or Lyon in August 2028

56 Mediterranean sailings from Paris, Seattle, Barcelona or Lyon leave in August 2028; 47 of them, on 10 lines, have a balcony cabin for sale. The lowest balcony price per night is $158 per person, on Norwegian's Norwegian Dawn (13 nights from Barcelona, Aug 23, $2,049 for the cruise). Running below their usual balcony price this month: Norwegian (15% under). Running above it: MSC Cruises (21% over). Prices per person with taxes and port fees, read from the booking page Oct 2, 2026.

56 sailings on 14 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
Sun Princess · Barcelona
Viking Vela · Barcelona
Viking Sea · Barcelona
Oceania Marina · Barcelona
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Nieuw Amsterdam · Barcelona
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Queen Elizabeth · Barcelona

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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.

Mediterranean cruises from Paris, Seattle, Barcelona or Lyon in August 2028: the lines compared (balcony cabins)

Cruise lineSailingsShipsLowest price, whole cruiseTypical per nightAgainst its usual
MSC Cruises225 $1,586 MSC Fantasia, Aug 31, 7 nights $269 ▲ 21% over
Norwegian11 $2,049 Norwegian Dawn, Aug 23, 13 nights $158 ▼ 15% under
Princess11 $5,478 Sun Princess, Aug 20, 21 nights $261 typical (+1%)
Celebrity52 $1,753 Celebrity Xcel, Aug 26, 7 nights $250 typical (-5%)
Viking Ocean22 $7,499 Viking Vela, Aug 15, 12 nights $658 typical (+3%)
Oceania11 $3,749 Oceania Marina, Aug 4, 7 nights $536 typical (+4%)
Holland America21 $3,264 Nieuw Amsterdam, Aug 6, 14 nights $237 typical (-5%)
Viking River94 $4,499 Viking Hermod, Aug 2, 7 nights $757 typical (-3%)
Cunard21 $3,059 Queen Elizabeth, Aug 4, 14 nights $220 typical (+7%)
AmaWaterways21 $5,488 AmaKristina, Aug 10, 7 nights $791 typical (-6%)

Per person, taxes and port fees included, read from the booking page Oct 2, 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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