An honest read on cruise prices.

The price is a tide

Cruise fares don’t sit still. The same cabin on the same sailing drifts between a high-water mark and a low-water mark, week after week. Every price card shows when we last read it — fresh reads come in daily, and when a read is stale, we say so right on the card. We keep each sailing’s own history, so instead of trusting a strike-through “sale,” you can see where today’s fare actually sits in its own range.

What the grades mean

The literal price and the grade always appear together — the number states exactly what the badge claims, so you never have to take a letter on faith.

Where our prices come from

Real reads from the cruise-line and agency sites we track, each one recorded with a timestamp. Every chart point is a price we actually read on a real date, and every card says when it was last priced. We only state what our own history shows.

What we never do

• Never fake a chart — fewer than two real reads means no tide line, period.
• Never show a price we didn’t read ourselves.
• Never hide that a number looks suspicious — when a drop is too steep to trust, we label it “verifying” until the next read confirms it.

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