⚓ Measured, not quoted
Every night we price cruises ourselves, all four cabin grades. This is what they actually cost across 22 lines and 99,185 sailings, per person with taxes and port fees included. Updated November 7, 2026.
A balcony runs about $165 a night on Carnival and about $2,414 a night on Silversea. Those are not brochure rates or sale prices: they are the median of what the cabin actually sold for on every sailing we priced, per person with taxes and port fees included, measured on November 7, 2026.
Sailings departing more than 21 days from now, so this is the price a planner pays. The small number is how many sailings stand behind each figure; a dash means we have priced fewer than five of that grade on that line so far.
| Cruise line | Inside | Ocean view | Balcony | Suite |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silversea | – | – | $2,414 76 | $971 749 |
| Regent | $2,364 177 | – | – | $938 370 |
| Avalon | – | $650 923 | – | $936 985 |
| Seabourn | – | – | – | $832 246 |
| AmaWaterways | – | $633 2135 | $827 2404 | $1,105 2201 |
| Windstar | – | $538 504 | $749 209 | $884 490 |
| Viking River | – | $428 3278 | $657 3018 | $1,071 2926 |
| Viking Ocean | – | – | $653 919 | $1,000 898 |
| Explora Journeys | $903 43 | – | – | $646 392 |
| Oceania | $351 204 | $423 204 | $514 389 | $750 357 |
| Azamara | $351 227 | $381 240 | $474 221 | $715 215 |
| Disney | $329 875 | $365 874 | $414 876 | $852 843 |
| Holland America | $169 644 | $203 619 | $252 499 | $346 518 |
| Princess | $148 1044 | $174 917 | $236 1046 | $291 979 |
| Cunard | $171 224 | $201 207 | $232 230 | $576 214 |
| Celebrity | $160 969 | $180 946 | $229 977 | $609 1080 |
| Norwegian | $143 1663 | $172 1605 | $220 1755 | $265 1840 |
| Royal Caribbean | $152 2934 | $171 3047 | $211 3078 | $349 3153 |
| Virgin | $159 365 | $179 382 | $205 386 | $550 383 |
| MSC Cruises | $152 5805 | $172 5806 | $201 5993 | $297 5676 |
| Costa | $146 1505 | $170 1512 | $189 1498 | $266 1250 |
| Carnival | $111 2212 | $132 2452 | $165 2716 | $258 2588 |
Is $1,500 per person a good price for a 7-night Royal Caribbean balcony cruise? It is about typical. For a 7-night Royal Caribbean balcony cabin, the middle sailing costs about $1,490 per person; under $1,200 is in the cheapest quarter (a good price) and over $1,810 is in the dearest quarter. Taxes and port fees included, measured across 2,061 Royal Caribbean sailings of 5 to 8 nights.
Per person for 7 nights, taxes and port fees included, from every sailing of 5 to 8 nights we have priced (measured November 7, 2026). Under the first figure is a good price (the cheapest quarter of sailings); over the last is high (the dearest quarter). To judge one specific sailing against its own other dates, open it on Fantasize: every sailing page shows low, typical or high.
| Cruise line | Balcony: good under | typical | high over | Inside: good under | typical | high over |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carnival | $950 | $1,080 | $1,320 | $600 | $740 | $900 |
| Costa | $1,090 | $1,310 | $1,530 | $830 | $1,020 | $1,190 |
| MSC Cruises | $1,200 | $1,420 | $1,670 | $870 | $1,070 | $1,290 |
| Virgin | $1,320 | $1,460 | $1,740 | $900 | $1,110 | $1,320 |
| Royal Caribbean | $1,200 | $1,490 | $1,810 | $840 | $1,040 | $1,310 |
| Norwegian | $1,140 | $1,550 | $2,040 | $820 | $1,000 | $1,270 |
| Celebrity | $1,330 | $1,590 | $1,930 | $910 | $1,070 | $1,270 |
| Cunard | $1,360 | $1,660 | $1,830 | $1,000 | $1,230 | $1,450 |
| Princess | $1,050 | $1,810 | $2,350 | $820 | $1,030 | $1,300 |
| Holland America | $1,680 | $2,030 | $2,270 | $1,030 | $1,170 | $1,410 |
| Disney | $2,570 | $3,040 | $3,670 | $1,950 | $2,350 | $2,790 |
| Azamara | $2,580 | $3,090 | $3,630 | $1,910 | $2,320 | $2,710 |
| Oceania | $3,250 | $3,650 | $3,900 | $2,000 | $2,520 | $2,600 |
| Viking Ocean | $3,200 | $4,600 | $6,000 | – | – | – |
| Viking River | $3,800 | $4,700 | $5,300 | – | – | – |
| Windstar | $4,590 | $5,630 | $7,080 | – | – | – |
| AmaWaterways | $5,080 | $5,880 | $6,540 | – | – | – |
| Silversea | $16,400 | $16,900 | $17,700 | – | – | – |
| Regent | – | – | – | $11,200 | $12,350 | $19,600 |
We price the cruises ourselves. Every sailing leaving a North American port within 21 days is priced every night, all four cabin grades; the rest of the catalogue is priced on a rolling schedule, sooner departures more often. Nothing here comes from a brochure, a press release or a supplier's "from" price.
What the number is. The median per-person, per-night price for that line and grade, taxes and port fees included, across sailings departing beyond the 21-day window. The median rather than the average, so one world cruise cannot move a line.
What it is not. Not a brochure rate, not a strike-through, not a member price, not what you will pay on any one sailing. Cruise length moves the per-night price a long way: a three-night weekend costs far more per night than a fourteen-night repositioning on the same ship, and a line whose ships mostly sail long itineraries reads cheaper here for that reason alone.
It gets sharper daily. The count beside each figure grows every night as the rolling schedule works through the catalogue, and the figures move with the market rather than with a publishing calendar.