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The cheapest cruises per night

Sorted purely on nightly rate: the cheapest berths we can put a verified price against, starting at $29 a night on Norwegian Gem.

Why long cruises dominate this list

Nightly rate rewards length. Most of a cruise fare is the cabin and the crew, and both get cheaper per night the longer you stay aboard — a fourteen-night repositioning crossing can undercut a three-night weekend by half on this measure while costing four times as much in total.

So read this list with the total fare beside it. The nightly figure tells you how much ship you are getting for your money; the total tells you what leaves your account. The Value column keeps both honest, because it compares each sailing with cruises of similar length rather than with the whole market.

The 40 lowest nightly rates we can verify

ShipDepartsPer nightFareValue
Norwegian GemNorwegian Cruise Line28 November 202612 nights · Transatlantic$29per night$349interior8.6
Norwegian GemNorwegian Cruise Line10 December 202611 nights · Caribbean$34per night$379interior8.8
Norwegian BreakawayNorwegian Cruise Line29 November 20267 nights · Caribbean$36per night$249interior8.9
Norwegian BreakawayNorwegian Cruise Line6 December 20267 nights · Caribbean$36per night$249interior8.9
Norwegian EpicNorwegian Cruise Line13 December 20267 nights · Caribbean$36per night$249interior8.8
Enchantment of the SeasRoyal Caribbean International8 November 20267 nights · Caribbean$37per night$256interior8.2
Norwegian GetawayNorwegian Cruise Line4 December 20265 nights · Caribbean$38per night$189interior8.8
MSC OperaMSC Cruises2 November 202614 nights · World Voyages$38per night$538interior7.5
MSC SeascapeMSC Cruises8 November 20267 nights · Caribbean$39per night$276interior8.6
MSC SeascapeMSC Cruises15 November 20267 nights · Caribbean$39per night$276interior8.6
Freedom of the SeasRoyal Caribbean International5 November 20269 nights · Caribbean$39per night$349interior8.6
MSC SeasideMSC Cruises16 November 20264 nights · Caribbean$39per night$155interior8.5
Norwegian StarNorwegian Cruise Line1 March 202715 nights · Transatlantic$39per night$579interior7.7
Carnival FirenzeCarnival Cruise Line7 December 20264 nights · Mexico$40per night$158balcony9.1
Carnival PanoramaCarnival Cruise Line24 January 20276 nights · Mexico$40per night$240interior8.8
MSC GrandiosaMSC Cruises30 January 20277 nights · Caribbean$40per night$278interior8.5
MSC SeasideMSC Cruises30 November 20264 nights · Caribbean$40per night$159interior8.5
MSC PoesiaMSC Cruises12 November 202610 nights · Caribbean$40per night$399interior8.4
Carnival ParadiseCarnival Cruise Line23 January 20275 nights · Bahamas$40per night$202interior8.2
MSC SeaviewMSC Cruises5 November 20267 nights · Mediterranean$41per night$285interior9.1
Queen ElizabethCunard Line5 November 202612 nights · Caribbean$41per night$490interior8.8
Radiance of the SeasRoyal Caribbean International7 November 20267 nights · Caribbean$41per night$290interior8.6
MSC World EuropaMSC Cruises18 November 202618 nights · World Voyages$41per night$729interior8.5
Carnival ElationCarnival Cruise Line9 January 20275 nights · Bahamas$41per night$206interior8.2
Enchantment of the SeasRoyal Caribbean International15 November 20267 nights · Caribbean$41per night$285interior8.0
Norwegian GetawayNorwegian Cruise Line30 November 20264 nights · Bahamas$42per night$169interior8.7
MSC MeravigliaMSC Cruises5 December 20268 nights · Caribbean$42per night$333interior8.3
Queen ElizabethCunard Line8 December 20269 nights · Caribbean$43per night$390interior8.8
Norwegian EscapeNorwegian Cruise Line13 November 20267 nights · Caribbean$43per night$299interior8.7
Norwegian EpicNorwegian Cruise Line3 January 20277 nights · Caribbean$43per night$299interior8.5
MSC GrandiosaMSC Cruises16 January 20277 nights · Caribbean$43per night$299interior8.4
MSC MeravigliaMSC Cruises29 November 20266 nights · Caribbean$43per night$259interior8.2
Norwegian EncoreNorwegian Cruise Line8 November 20267 nights · Mexico$43per night$299interior8.2
Norwegian EncoreNorwegian Cruise Line15 November 20267 nights · Mexico$43per night$299interior8.2
Carnival ElationCarnival Cruise Line18 January 20275 nights · Bahamas$43per night$214interior8.1
Voyager of the SeasRoyal Caribbean International11 December 20267 nights · Mexico$43per night$299interior7.7
MSC SeashoreMSC Cruises29 November 20264 nights · Caribbean$44per night$176interior8.4
Carnival ParadiseCarnival Cruise Line18 January 20275 nights · Bahamas$44per night$220interior8.0
Voyager of the SeasRoyal Caribbean International27 November 20267 nights · Mexico$44per night$309interior7.6
Norwegian JoyNorwegian Cruise Line4 January 20274 nights · Bahamas$45per night$179interior8.8

Fares are per person, in the cheapest cabin grade we can verify, and are the seller’s own price at the last refresh. A sailing we cannot match to a real fare is withheld rather than estimated.

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Cheap is not the same as good value

A low nightly rate on a tired ship is not a bargain, it is a low price. That is the whole reason this site grades the vessel separately: every ship here carries a Vessel Class out of ten, built from space per guest, staffing, condition and inspection record. Open any ship on the list to see where it sits against the rest of the fleet before you book on price alone.

Other ways to cut it
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