Onboard Cost Index

How to read this. Three columns, kept apart because they are not the same kind of money. Charged automatically is what the line adds to your account unless you act — the only genuinely unavoidable series, and the one each table is ordered by. Wi-Fi is the cheapest unlimited plan usable for general browsing. Drinks package is what you pay if you buy one, with the service charge included where the line adds it. Nobody pays all three.

Figures are in each line’s own currency and are never converted, so compare within a currency, not across one. Where a line suggests a gratuity rather than charging one, the suggestion is shown as text and counted as zero: a voluntary amount is not an unavoidable cost.

This edition publishes levels, not changes. The Index exists to show movement between editions, and edition 1 has nothing honest to compare against: the September review found the previous quarter’s data largely unverified and corrected thirteen of twenty-one records. A change column would report our own corrections as market movement. Comparison begins with the December 2026 edition.

Checked is the oldest verification date behind the row. “Partly verified” means at least one published item has no recorded check date. “Not verified” means the row has no recorded check date.

Withheld means the Index will not state something it cannot stand behind, for one of two reasons. No first-party source: we hold a figure but cannot trace it to the line’s own published pages, because the line publishes no price or our only source is a third party. Stated per ship, not fleet-wide: the line answers for named vessels rather than for the line, so no single figure is true of it. The Cost Reference shows what we hold, with its caveats.

The Cost Reference is the live lookup table for the major onboard costs we track. The quarterly Index applies one consistent seven-night basis, allowing lines using the same currency to be compared at a fixed point in time. Look up the detail in the Reference; cite the Index.

Method: what has to be true before a figure is published · every figure we have changed · the full per-line detail