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Practical guides from the team behind our Cruise Lines comparison.
Cruise fares should include the gratuities and port fees you cannot avoid
Automatic daily gratuities and port charges can add hundreds of dollars to a family cruise. The advertised price should include them.
Choosing Your First Cruise: Line Style, Cabins, Real Costs and Health Advice
How to pick a cruise line and cabin, what the fare leaves out, how cancellation works, and what the CDC, State Department and Medicare say before you sail.
Royal Caribbean and Celebrity drop the 25% cancellation tier from October 11
Cancel a cruise of five nights or more after the free window and you lose half the fare, not a quarter. Families sharing a cabin are hit hardest.
Carnival opens a far-ahead West Coast season to Alaska, Hawaii and Mexico
Three ships from Seattle, San Francisco and Long Beach go on sale as Carnival's parent says bookings stretch further out than ever. Routes, ports and terms.