Mediterranean cruises in December 2026: 217 compared, balcony from $71/night

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Mediterranean cruises in December 2026

217 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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217 Mediterranean sailings leave in December 2026; 204 of them, on 10 lines, have a balcony cabin for sale. The lowest balcony price per night is $71 per person, on Costa's Costa Smeralda (7 nights from Las Palmas, Dec 10, $495 for the cruise). Running below their usual balcony price this month: AmaWaterways (21% under), Azamara (21% under) and MSC Cruises (13% under). Prices per person with taxes and port fees, read from the booking page Nov 15, 2026.

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MSC Fantasia · Civitavecchia (Rome)
MSC Magnifica · Civitavecchia (Rome)
MSC Lirica · Split
Celebrity Infinity · Barcelona
Viking Neptune · Barcelona
Viking Vesta · Piraeus (Athens)
Viking Saturn · Civitavecchia (Rome)
Viking Vela · Civitavecchia (Rome)
Viking Neptune · Civitavecchia (Rome)
Viking Vesta · Istanbul
Viking Mira · Piraeus (Athens)
Viking Star · Piraeus (Athens)
Viking Neptune · Piraeus (Athens)
Viking Libra · Civitavecchia (Rome)
Viking Mira · Barcelona
Viking Vesta · Civitavecchia (Rome)
Viking Libra · Barcelona
Viking Vela · Barcelona
Viking Vesta · Barcelona
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Oceania Sirena · Civitavecchia (Rome)
Oceania Sirena · Barcelona
Oceania Sirena · Lisbon
Silver Dawn · Cagliari
Silver Dawn · Lisbon
Seven Seas Navigator · Barcelona
Seven Seas Grandeur · Miami
Azamara Onward · Civitavecchia (Rome)
Azamara Onward · Piraeus (Athens)
Azamara Onward · Barcelona
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Queen Victoria · Southampton
Queen Anne · Southampton
EXPLORA II · Civitavecchia (Rome)
EXPLORA II · Casablanca
EXPLORA II · Santa Cruz de Tenerife
EXPLORA II · Lisbon

Striped: 13 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 in December 2026: the lines compared (balcony cabins)

Cruise lineSailingsShipsLowest price, whole cruiseTypical per nightAgainst its usual
MSC Cruises1017 $394 MSC Magnifica, Dec 5, 2 nights $147 ▼ 13% under
Celebrity11 $2,910 Celebrity Infinity, Dec 8, 12 nights $243 typical (+1%)
Viking Ocean237 $2,399 Viking Mira, Dec 16, 7 nights $436 ▼ 13% under
Oceania31 $3,649 Oceania Sirena, Dec 2, 7 nights $542 typical (+2%)
Silversea21 $5,150 Silver Dawn, Dec 2, 7 nights $655 typical (-5%)
Azamara41 $2,079 Azamara Onward, Dec 5, 7 nights $355 ▼ 21% under
Cunard32 $1,999 Queen Victoria, Dec 16, 12 nights $177 typical (0%)
AmaWaterways115 $4,198 AmaKristina, Dec 17, 7 nights $657 ▼ 21% under
Costa494 $278 Costa Pacifica, Dec 15, 3 nights $139 typical (-5%)
Explora Journeys72 $2,490 EXPLORA II, Dec 16, 5 nights $696 typical (0%)

Per person, taxes and port fees included, read from the booking page Nov 15, 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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