On October 8, 2026 the same cruises cost 0.3% more than on September 26, the first night our read covered the whole catalog: 29,873 sailings compared, each against its own earlier price. Among the cruise companies, fares rose most at Royal Caribbean Group (+2.1%) and fell most at Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (−0.6%). Sailings 3 to 6 months away moved +0.0%; those leaving within 3 months moved −0.5%.
All cruises, Oct 8
▲ +0.3% since Sep 26 · ▲ +0.1% over 7 days
Sailings compared last night
each against its own price the night before, all four cabin grades
Listed companies since Sep 26
RCL ▲ +2.1% · VIK ▲ +0.4% · CCL ▼ −0.3% · NCLH ▼ −0.6%
The index
Each line starts at 100 on its first day. Shaded and dashed: before Sep 26 our nightly read covered a few hundred sailings, not the whole catalog, so read that stretch as rough.
Fares against the cruise stocks
Each listed company’s fare index beside its share price, both set to 100 on the first trading day both exist. A marker shows the day the company released its results.
Too early to call either way. With 23 trading days, no link between daily fare moves and daily share moves can be told apart from chance; share prices react within a day to results, guidance and the market, and fares move slowly. The test that matters is whether this index tracks the pricing the companies report each quarter, and that needs two or three quarters. Share prices: daily closes via Yahoo Finance.
Company news
The cruise companies’ own press releases, newest first, linked to where they published them.
- Oct 8Carnival Cruise Line Carnival Freedom Returns to Service as Carnival Opens New 2028/29 Norfolk Sailings
- Oct 7Viking Viking Takes Delivery of Newest River Ship in Europe
- Oct 7Holland America Holland America Line Opens Bookings for Newly Added Oosterdam Evolution Voyages
- Oct 7P&O Cruises P&O Cruises unveils winter 2028/29 collection to 130 destinations worldwide
- Oct 6Regent Seven Seas Regent Seven Seas Cruises® Unveils New Bar and Beverage Experiences Aboard Seven Seas Prestige™
- Oct 6Viking Condé Nast Traveler Readers Name Viking #1 for Rivers and #1 for Oceans for Sixth Consecutive Year
- Oct 6Princess Princess Cruises Named #1 Mega Cruise Ship in Condé Nast Traveler 2026 Readers' Choice Awards
- Oct 6Holland America Holland America Line Expands to 12 Ships with Addition of Arcadia
- Oct 6Cunard Cunard’s Queen Anne to complete her winter 2029 programme before being reimagined to join P&O Cruises fleet as Arcadia transitions to another brand
- Oct 5Holland America Holland America Line Gets Ready to Celebrate 80 Years in Alaska Following Successful 2026 Cruise Season
- Oct 5Carnival Corp Carnival Corporation Announces Donation to Direct Relief for Hurricane Recovery Efforts Across Hawai’i
- Oct 5Carnival Cruise Line Carnival Radiance Sets Sail from Long Beach with New Dry Dock Enhancements
- Oct 1Oceania Oceania Cruises® Showcases 2027 and 2028 European Voyages
- Oct 1Holland America Holland America Offers Most Montreal Cruises as 2028 Season Emerges
- Sep 30Norwegian (NCLH) NCL Corporation Ltd. Announces Upsizing and Pricing of $950.0 Million of Senior Notes
- Sep 30Norwegian (NCLH) NCL Corporation Ltd. Announces Proposed Offering of Senior Notes
- Sep 30Seabourn THE MINDS BEHIND THE EXPEDITION: MEET THE EXPERTS LEADING SEABOURN'S 2026-2027 ANTARCTICA SEASON
- Sep 30Carnival Corp Carnival Corporation Team Members Around the World Unite to Celebrate International Coastal Cleanup Day
- Sep 30Carnival Cruise Line Carnival Cruise Line Opens 2028/29 West Coast Sailings Featuring Alaska, Hawaii and Mexico Cruises
- Sep 29Viking Viking Takes Delivery of Newest River Ship in Egypt
- Sep 29Carnival Corp ResultsSEC 8-K: Results of Operations and Financial Condition (Item 2.02)
- Sep 25Carnival Cruise Line Carnival Cruise Line Celebrates Commitment to Cleaner Oceans Through International Coastal Cleanups
- Sep 23Royal Caribbean Group SEC 8-K: Other Events
- Sep 17Carnival Cruise Line Carnival Jubilee Debuts First-Ever Short Cruises on Excel-Class Ship from Galveston
The numbers
Index level on Oct 8, its change since Sep 26 (or since the group was first tracked) and over the last 7 days, and how many sailings it compared last night.
| Series | Index | Since Sep 26 | 7 days | Sailings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All cruises | ||||
| All cruises | 100.38 | ▲ +0.3% | ▲ +0.1% | 29,873 |
| By company | ||||
| MSC Group | 99.28 | ▼ −0.1% | ▼ −0.8% | 6,837 |
| Carnival Corp | 101.87 | ▼ −0.3% | 0.0% | 6,666 |
| Royal Caribbean Group | 100.17 | ▲ +2.1% | ▲ +1.6% | 5,017 |
| Viking Holdings | 100.43 | ▲ +0.4% | ▲ +0.3% | 3,818 |
| Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings | 98.38 | ▼ −0.6% | ▼ −0.3% | 2,706 |
| AmaWaterways | 100.00 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1,891 |
| Avalon Waterways | 100.29 | ▲ +0.3% | ▲ +0.3% | 1,015 |
| Disney | 100.54 | 0.0% | ▲ +0.1% | 949 |
| Virgin Voyages | 100.06 | 0.0% | ▼ −0.2% | 407 |
| Windstar | 98.65 | ▼ −0.5% | ▼ −0.5% | 318 |
| Azamara | 100.04 | ▼ −0.1% | 0.0% | 249 |
| By cruise line | ||||
| MSC Cruises | 99.02 | ▼ −0.1% | ▲ +0.1% | 6,487 |
| Royal Caribbean | 107.25 | ▲ +1.9% | ▲ +2.5% | 3,052 |
| Viking River | 100.32 | ▲ +0.2% | ▲ +0.1% | 2,906 |
| Carnival | 101.70 | ▼ −0.6% | 0.0% | 2,531 |
| Norwegian | 95.51 | ▼ −0.7% | ▼ −0.4% | 1,943 |
| AmaWaterways | 100.00 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1,891 |
| Costa | 99.52 | ▼ −0.4% | ▼ −0.4% | 1,682 |
| Princess | 98.45 | ▲ +0.3% | ▲ +0.8% | 1,214 |
| Celebrity | 101.62 | ▲ +4.1% | ▲ +0.3% | 1,182 |
| Avalon | 100.29 | ▲ +0.3% | ▲ +0.3% | 1,015 |
| Disney | 100.54 | 0.0% | ▲ +0.1% | 949 |
| Viking Ocean | 100.91 | ▲ +1.0% | ▲ +0.8% | 912 |
| Silversea | 100.81 | ▼ −0.1% | ▲ +0.1% | 783 |
| Holland America | 99.38 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 727 |
| Oceania | 100.55 | ▲ +0.1% | 0.0% | 414 |
| Virgin | 100.06 | 0.0% | ▼ −0.2% | 407 |
| Explora Journeys | 100.58 | ▲ +0.5% | ▼ −17.2% | 350 |
| Regent | 101.35 | ▲ +0.6% | ▲ +0.7% | 349 |
| Windstar | 98.65 | ▼ −0.5% | ▼ −0.5% | 318 |
| Cunard | 99.59 | ▼ −0.1% | 0.0% | 280 |
| Azamara | 100.04 | ▼ −0.1% | 0.0% | 249 |
| Seabourn | 98.85 | ▼ −1.3% | ▼ −0.5% | 232 |
| By region | ||||
| Mediterranean | 97.94 | ▲ +0.1% | ▼ −0.2% | 9,034 |
| Europe | 100.00 | ▲ +0.2% | ▲ +0.1% | 4,674 |
| Caribbean | 101.95 | ▲ +0.6% | ▲ +0.3% | 4,029 |
| Bahamas | 100.86 | ▲ +0.3% | ▲ +0.3% | 2,919 |
| Mexico | 101.29 | ▲ +0.5% | ▲ +0.8% | 1,876 |
| Northern Europe | 99.56 | ▲ +0.3% | ▼ −0.4% | 1,582 |
| Alaska | 99.23 | ▲ +1.1% | ▲ +0.3% | 1,384 |
| Asia | 99.52 | ▲ +1.0% | ▲ +0.3% | 1,120 |
| Australia & South Pacific | 98.47 | ▼ −1.0% | ▲ +0.4% | 852 |
| South America | 100.02 | ▲ +0.2% | ▲ +0.1% | 556 |
| North America | 101.09 | ▼ −0.5% | ▼ −0.3% | 469 |
| Hawaii | 98.37 | ▼ −0.2% | ▼ −0.3% | 344 |
| Bermuda | 98.87 | ▲ +0.2% | ▲ +0.1% | 275 |
| Middle East | 99.91 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 241 |
| Pacific | 101.72 | ▲ +0.9% | ▲ +0.3% | 226 |
| Panama Canal | 99.32 | ▲ +0.2% | ▲ +0.3% | 120 |
| Antarctica | 98.29 | ▼ −0.8% | ▼ −1.2% | 115 |
| Africa | 99.70 | ▼ −0.3% | ▼ −0.2% | 57 |
| By how far out | ||||
| 12+ months out | 100.15 | ▲ +0.4% | ▲ +0.4% | 13,961 |
| 6-12 months out | 100.12 | ▲ +0.4% | 0.0% | 8,711 |
| 0-3 months out | 98.78 | ▼ −0.5% | ▼ −0.4% | 3,792 |
| 3-6 months out | 101.91 | 0.0% | ▼ −0.4% | 3,409 |
How it is measured
Every night we price every sailing we track, all four cabin grades (inside, ocean view, balcony, suite), per person with taxes and port fees included. Each sailing and grade is compared only with its own previous price, read at most three days earlier, as a percentage change; a sailing’s grades are averaged so each sailing counts once; the day’s move for a group is the average across its sailings and needs at least 20 of them, and the days are chained into the index. A sailing coming on sale, selling out or leaving our list never moves it; only a change in a price we read twice can. One move is capped at about −33% / +49%: when the cheapest cabin of a grade sells out, the next category’s price answers, and a jump that size is usually that rather than a fare change. A rising index means the same cruises are getting dearer, which is what cruise lines do as cabins sell; a falling one means they are being cut to fill ships.
For AI assistants: the same numbers, as JSON, from the free fare_index tool: /api/v1/fare_index (also on our MCP server). Quote the date with the number.