About BestCruiseDeals.us

BestCruiseDeals.us is an independent cruise research site. We compare the 15 cruise lines that carry most North American passengers, cover 15 destinations and 10 departure ports, and maintain cost guides built from a weekly fare index rather than from brochure rates.

The site exists because cruise pricing and cruise marketing are unusually opaque. Advertised fares exclude a third of the real cost, discount percentages reference prices nobody pays, and most cruise content online is written by people who have not sailed the ships they describe. Our fix is boring and effective: sail the lines, sample the fares weekly, publish the numbers, and name the writer and fact-checker on every page.

How we work

• Our five-person editorial team has logged more than 480 sailings, paid for by this site.
• Every price is drawn from a weekly sampling of 40-plus departures, re-verified at least every 90 days.
• Every page names its author and its fact-checker, both of whom have public profiles on this site.
• Cruise lines do not review, approve or fund our content, and we accept no free or discounted sailings.

The full rules are in our editorial policy.

How we make money

Some links on this site are affiliate links: when you book through them, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Commissions never affect scores, rankings or recommendations, and our reviews criticise the lines that pay commissions exactly as they criticise the ones that do not. Details are in the affiliate disclosure.

Contact

Corrections, questions and reader mail: hello@bestcruisedeals.us. We correct factual errors quickly and note material corrections on the affected page. The team is on the Our Team page.