Cruise Cost Calculator
Choose what you want to price, then enter your trip details. Your summary updates as you go; the full cost breakdown opens after Gratuities.
Your booking
Fare
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Onboard costs
Drinks
See your total with and without a drinks package.
With a package, will you still be charged for drinks?
- drinks priced above your package’s per-drink limit — some lines charge you the difference, others give a discount instead
- items the package doesn’t cover — premium bottles, the mini-bar, room-service drinks
- an optional extra tip — receipts invite one, but it’s never required
Wi-Fi
Gratuities
Travel costs
Pre/post cruise costs and travel insurance optional
Optional extras
Specialty dining optional
Shore excursions optional
Casino optional
Spa & wellness optional
Based on your trip details, here's how those additional costs build up
What this cruise actually costs
Your fare plus the costs included in this estimate.
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Worth adding: a medical evacuation at sea can cost more than the cruise itself.
🗓️ Cruise line costs reviewed October 2026 · updated quarterly · how we source every figure
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Fares, gratuities and Wi-Fi all creep up over time — save your estimate and we’ll email you when the numbers change.
How we calculate this
In plain terms: we start from your advertised fare and addwe price the costs cruise lines charge separately — using your figures where you gave them, and typical US-market estimates where you didn’t. Without a fare, the result is the extras only. Flights, hotel and insurance are not counted.
- Everything is per person, in US dollars. Your fare and the per-person costs are multiplied by the number of guests for the trip total.
- Per-night costs (drinks, Wi-Fi, gratuities) are multiplied by nights × guests. Per-trip per-person costs (excursions, dining, spa, casino, flights) are multiplied by guests. The hotel is priced per room (rate × nights), and parking and insurance are added once for the booking.
- Solo travelers. Choose “Just me,” then pick whether you have a solo fare quote or only the advertised two-guest price. For the advertised path we add an uplift (default about +100%) you can change. If you have a real solo quote, enter it as the fare on the quote path.
- Drinks. For a package, we take the price you enter and add the service charge most lines apply (about 18–20% — adjustable, and set to 0 if your price already includes it), shown as its own line. For pay-as-you-go, we use your daily estimate as entered — bar prices already include that charge, so build it into your number. The service charge doesn’t change your break-even, since it applies to individual drinks too.
- Spending credit (onboard credit) is subtracted from your onboard spending and from excursions booked through the cruise line — the costs it can actually pay. It never reduces the fare, and credit you can’t spend isn’t refunded, so we don’t count it.
- The “different ways to cruise” comparisons use round assumptions, shown on each card: a $25/day drinks limit, and independent port days at roughly 40% of the cruise line’s organized-tour price.
- We only count what you tell us. Extras like spa, casino and shopping aren’t assumed — add them if they apply to you.
- Not calculated here at all: onboard photo packages (about $200–400 for 7 nights), specialty entertainment and shopping.
These are typical figures to plan with, not quotes. Actual inclusions depend on your fare type and any promotions, and prices change over time (we re-check the built-in figures periodically). CruiseClarify is independent and affiliate-free, and nothing you enter is saved.
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