CruiseClarify/cruise-costs

Real All-In Cruise Costs — by CruiseClarify

📅 This is a dated snapshot — verified June 2026

Cruise prices change constantly. Every figure here is a point-in-time value, not live data, accurate as of June 2026. The next quarterly refresh is due September 2026 — after that, treat this copy as historical.

If you are reading or reusing this a quarter or more after June 2026, the numbers will have drifted. Always pull the current version before quoting or republishing:

• Live figures: https://cruiseclarify.com
• Latest dataset: https://github.com/NorgeNED/cruiseclarify-data

And confirm the current price with the cruise line before presenting any figure as today's price.

A clean, structured dataset of what cruise guests actually pay on board — gratuities, Wi-Fi, drinks packages, specialty dining and surcharges — across 34 cruise lines, normalized to a single comparable basis.

Most published cruise figures are list prices buried in marketing pages or locked inside calculators. This dataset is the opposite: one tidy table, every figure on the same footing, sourced and dated, free to reuse with credit.

Maintained by CruiseClarify — independent cruise cost research. Refreshed quarterly.

What's in it

• 34 cruise lines — mainstream, premium, premium-plus, luxury/all-inclusive, expedition, and UK/EU/Australian market variants.
• Basis: every monetary figure is per person, per day, in the line's native currency (USD unless the currency field says otherwise) — and reflects what the guest actually pays, not the headline list price.
• Fields per line: segment, currency, all-inclusive flag, how the drinks package works (package_treatment), gratuities, Wi-Fi (headline + range), whether drinking is covered by the fare (drinks_included), drinks-package price and service charge, specialty-dining range, onboard surcharge, and the verification date.

Files

File	Grain	What it is
cruise-costs.csv	one row per line	Flattened headline figures — opens in Excel / Numbers / Google Sheets.
cruise-packages.csv	one row per package	Every drinks package, bundle, upgrade and credit, with type and covers_* flags so bundles are never confused with standalone drinks packages.
cruise-gratuities-tiers.csv	one row per cabin tier	Daily gratuities by cabin grade (standard, suite, Grills, Haven, Yacht Club…).
cruise-costs.json	nested	Full-fidelity structured data — keeps every tier, range, and source note.

cruise-costs.csv is the quick-look table; the package and tier tables hold the finer grain that doesn't fit one-row-per-line; cruise-costs.json is the complete record (everything above plus the provenance notes behind each figure).

All CSVs are UTF-8 (with a byte-order mark, so Excel renders € and £ correctly); the JSON is plain UTF-8.

A few definitions

• package_treatment — how a line's drinks package behaves: drinks_only (covers drinks alone), bundle (genuinely covers Wi-Fi / gratuities / dining too), premium_fare (near-inclusive fare; package is a drinks upgrade), prepaid_credit (Virgin's Bar Tab), no_package (Disney). Blank where a line isn't individually modeled in the calculator — its drinks story is still fully given by drinks_included, drinks_package_offered and drinks_package_per_day.
• Blank cells mean not applicable / not separately tracked — never "unknown." Examples: no wifi_range when a line has a single Wi-Fi price; no drinks_package_* when no package is sold; no specialty-dining figures for a few expedition lines we don't track venue-by-venue.
• Wi-Fi headline — the cheapest unlimited plan usable for general browsing; social-media-only tiers are excluded.
• Service charge — drinks_service_pct is the % added to a drinks package; drinks_service_in_price says whether that's already inside the quoted price.
• drinks_price_confidence — verified = a sourced figure; approximate = a ballpark (vague/unsourced basis — treat as indicative, not exact); blank = no priced package (all-inclusive, no package, or a credit model). So a number is never mistaken for solid when it isn't.
• drinks_included — is drinking covered by the fare itself? yes (all-inclusive lines), partial (some drinks included, e.g. wine/beer with meals), or no (you pay per drink or buy a package). This is separate from drinks_package_offered, which only says whether a paid add-on package is sold.
• dining_included — are the ship's restaurants covered by the fare? yes (specialty cover then reads $0), partial (most dining included, some venues charge), or no (specialty restaurants carry the cover charge shown in specialty_dining_*).
• Included items read $0. When an item is covered by the fare, its *_included flag is yes and its per-day figure is 0 — meaning no extra cost, not missing data. All-inclusive lines therefore show 0 across the cost columns. A blank cell means not applicable (e.g. no Wi-Fi price range, or no named package), never "unknown."

Currency note

Figures are in each line's home-market currency (USD, GBP, EUR or AUD — see the currency field). They are not converted to a single currency, because the prices are set and charged in those currencies. Convert at your own rate if needed.

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) — see LICENSE.

You may use, share, adapt and build on this data, including commercially, as long as you credit CruiseClarify. Suggested attribution:

Cruise cost data by CruiseClarify (https://cruiseclarify.com), June 2026 snapshot, CC BY 4.0.

Keeping the snapshot date in your attribution protects everyone: it tells your readers how current the figures are, and it stops a June 2026 number being mistaken for a live one later on.

Accuracy & freshness

This release is a dated snapshot: verified June 2026, next refresh due September 2026.

Cruise pricing changes often, and every figure here is a point-in-time value, not live data. Each line carries its own verified date (and the JSON carries last_refreshed / next_refresh_due). Treat the numbers as accurate as of June 2026 only.

If you are using this after September 2026, do not present these figures as current — fetch the latest release first:

• Live figures: https://cruiseclarify.com
• Latest dataset: https://github.com/NorgeNED/cruiseclarify-data

Provided in good faith for research and comparison, with no warranty — always confirm the current price with the cruise line before booking.

Citation

CruiseClarify (2026). Real All-In Cruise Costs (June 2026 snapshot). https://cruiseclarify.com