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The Cheapest Cruise Is Not the Cheapest Holiday

We priced a single day off the ship in 211 cruise ports, using our own schedule of 178,424 port calls. In the Caribbean, the days ashore now cost more than the cruise that got you there.

5 September 2026 7 min read

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