Top offers from some of our top cruise lines

Celebrity is taking 75% off the second guest's cruise fare, adding up to an additional $800 per room, and putting $100 bonus savings on all Europe sailings.

The sale runs on a countdown rather than a published end date, so the deadline moves. Celebrity also keeps resident, military, and past-guest rates through the year, and whether one of those beats the sale depends on your sailing. That is a short call with a Personal Vacation Manager rather than an afternoon of comparing tabs.

Royal Caribbean is taking up to $800 off, with up to $100 off Caribbean and West Coast sailings through April 2027, and the third and fourth guests in the stateroom sail free.

Royal also runs resident, senior, military, and first responder rates all year. Whether one of those beats the sale depends entirely on your sailing, and it is the sort of thing worth a two-minute call rather than an afternoon of comparing tabs.

Princess is pairing up to $500 in instant savings with up to 40% off, and the third and fourth guests sail free on Caribbean cruises.

Alaska carries its own layer: the 2028 Alaska early booking bonus adds up to $500 in instant savings and up to $500 in onboard credit. Princess does not publish an end date for any of this, so treat the deadline as movable and confirm it before you plan around it.

Norwegian's headline right now is Free 2nd Guest, a limited-time offer that applies to all stateroom categories.

A few others sit alongside it. CruiseFirst certificates carry $150 free toward a future booking, Cruise Now, Pay Later spreads payment at 0% APR if you book by November 4, 2026, and past guests earn one extra Latitudes point per night on select cruises. Norwegian also keeps standing rates for military, teachers, first responders, and solo travelers. If you fall into one of those, say so on the call, because it sometimes changes which offer is the better one.

Viking is running one Fall Sale across both sides of the fleet. Both lanes carry special fares, an air offer, and a $25 deposit to hold your place, and both expire October 31, 2026.

The sale terms are shared. The voyages, the ships, and the air offers are not, so we have kept ocean and river apart below rather than average them into one number.

Holland America's headline right now pairs its Early Booking Bonus with a $99 deposit, which is a low bar for holding a sailing while you settle the details.

The line does not publish an end date for it, so treat the deadline as movable. Holland America also runs standing AARP and Mariner Society offers worth checking against the headline rather than assuming the headline wins. A Personal Vacation Manager can price both for your sailing.

Oceania's Fall Sale Event takes up to 40% off select sailings.

On a line where specialty dining, gratuities, and Wi-Fi already sit inside the fare, a percentage off the fare is worth more than the same number elsewhere, because there is less left to pay for once you are aboard. Oceania does not publish an end date for the sale, so confirm the deadline before you plan around it, and ask your Personal Vacation Manager which sailings are actually in it.

Regent's headline is free round-trip first class air with private chauffeured transfers, on select 2027 and 2028 voyages.

Two more sit alongside it and are worth asking about: the 35th Anniversary Offer adds $350 in shipboard credit per suite across 35 curated voyages, and booking on a non-refundable deposit takes a further 5% off. Regent does not publish an end date for any of them, so confirm the deadline before you plan around it.

Virgin is taking 70% off the second Sailor and layering instant savings that scale with voyage length: up to $250 on four and five nights, up to $500 on six to nine, up to $750 on ten to thirteen, and up to $1,000 on fourteen nights or more.

It applies to sailings from September 1, 2026 through October 28, 2028. Virgin is adults only, which is either exactly what you want or exactly what you do not want.

Explora's headline offer is An Invitation to Celebrate, worth up to 30% savings with a 10% reduced deposit, on journeys reserved by October 27, 2026.

Others sit alongside it. An Invitation to the Ocean is worth up to $5,500 per guest and closes earlier, on October 14, 2026. There is a 5% early booking benefit on the journey fare, and combining journeys rather than booking them one at a time saves up to 20%. Explora is the newest name on this page and the ships are small, so availability tends to move faster than the deadline suggests.

Azamara's Make More of Every Journey puts up to $750 in onboard credit per stateroom, on select sailings departing on or after November 7, 2026, for bookings made between October 1 and December 4, 2026.

How much credit lands depends on the sailing and the cabin, so the headline number is the ceiling rather than the figure to plan on. The reason most people book Azamara is not the credit, though. It is the habit of staying late in port and running overnight calls, which changes what a day ashore feels like.