Black Friday cruise deals 2024: Here are the best preholiday bargains at sea

With cruises promoting like hotcakes, you are already behind if you have not but considered your 2025 summer time trip. Fortuitously, many cruise traces are providing Black Friday offers this yr, permitting you to benefit from fare reductions and perks like cabin upgrades, “youngsters sail free” presents, onboard credit score, free airfare and different bonuses in the event you’re simply beginning to plan ahead. With many of those bargains already dwell, you do not have to attend till after Thanksgiving to get a leap on cruise buying.

As a result of demand for cruises is so excessive, fares are, too. Meaning the offers we’re seeing this yr aren’t fairly pretty much as good as in earlier years, however that does not imply you may’t nonetheless discover some financial savings and added worth.

It is easy to be swept up in presents that tout what seem like nice markdowns — both a set amount of cash off or share reductions — however the fares might not be as cheap as you are led to consider. All the time be sure to’re comfy with the ultimate value, what you are receiving in value from any added perks and what you will be paying per individual, per evening earlier than you e-book any voyage.

Verify again typically. We’ll replace this text as new offers roll out main as much as the vacations.

Azamara is providing important financial savings this Black Friday. Passengers can take 20% off cruise fares for a complete financial savings of as much as $4,000, relying on the cabin sort booked. This deal can be mixed with the road’s present November promotion that earns cruisers as much as $750 in onboard credit score per cabin, primarily based on itinerary size. The Black Friday supply could be discovered on the Azamara website starting Nov. 19 and working by Dec. 4.

With the More = Merrier sale, you may e-book choose Carnival sailings departing by Might 2026 and save as much as $125 per cabin. Plus, while you e-book three or extra folks in a cabin, deposits can be diminished to simply $25 per individual. You’ll be able to benefit from this supply by Nov. 16.

Superstar Cruises

Cruising is extra enjoyable while you convey a pal. Via Dec. 9, Celebrity Cruises is providing you with 75% off a second cruise fare while you purchase one at common value for choose voyages of three nights or longer departing by Might 10, 2027. Meaning you may select to journey on the final minute or plan a bit extra upfront. Plus, you will additionally snag a further $250 per cabin in financial savings for 2 passengers or $500 per cabin for 4 when sharing a room.

Black Friday is a comparatively new idea for Italian cruise line Costa Cruises, which has solely lately begun to make its presence known within the North American market. This yr, by Nov. 24, the road is providing passengers Black Friday Heat-Up offers, together with fares from as little as $499 per individual for cruises within the Caribbean and Mediterranean. As a part of the promotion, new sailings can be unlocked every week main as much as the vacations, so make sure you verify again.

Cunard

From Nov. 21 by Dec. 9, vacationers reserving suites in Cunard‘s posh Princess and Queens Grills will earn as much as $400 per cabin in onboard credit. Though the credit score is offered solely to the highest room varieties, financial savings abound throughout the board, with inside cabin charges ranging from $899 per individual. Locations embody Alaska, the Norwegian fjords, New England and, after all, the road’s iconic transatlantic crossings between Southampton, England, and New York Metropolis. Make sure to use promo code “RDC” when reserving. This supply solely applies to the primary two company in every room.

Day by day E-newsletter

Reward your inbox with the TPG Day by day publication

Be a part of over 700,000 readers for breaking information, in-depth guides and unique offers from TPG’s consultants

Though Disney Cruise Line not often runs Black Friday-specific presents, it is discounting choose last-minute sailings — together with 2024 Very Merrytime vacation cruises — into February 2025 from Galveston, Texas; Fort Lauderdale and Port Canaveral (close to Orlando), Florida; Honolulu; and Sydney. Passengers who e-book one in all these three- to 15-night voyages will save up to 20% on fares for guarantee cabins. Meaning you will not get to pick out your particular room, however you are assured to get one within the class you choose or increased. Full nonrefundable fee and reserving data for all company are required on the time of reservation.

Grand Circle Journey

If a river cruise is in your journey agenda for 2024, you are in luck. Grand Circle is offering its passengers with a alternative of two deals to have a good time the vacation season. The primary is financial savings of as much as $500 on all voyages subsequent yr. The second is free airfare — as much as a $2,000 worth — for anybody wishing to journey from February by June of 2025. Plus, clients will obtain a further 10% off in the event that they pay in full on the time of reserving. Reservations have to be made by Dec. 2 utilizing promo code “BLACKFRIDAY24.”

Margaritaville at Sea, Jimmy Buffett’s oceangoing cruise model, is providing fare reductions on sailings departing by April 2026. Two folks can sail on a two-night voyage from $99 — lower than $25 per individual, per evening. Moreover, third and fourth passengers sharing the identical cabin will sail free (excluding taxes and costs). Anybody who books as a part of the promotion may also obtain as much as $300 in onboard credit score, primarily based on cruise size.

This supply is offered from Nov. 13 to 29 on the Margaritaville website; till then, vacationers can benefit from the road’s Black Friday Early Entry sale, which presents 60% off all cruises by 2026. With the sale, third and fourth company in a cabin additionally sail totally free, and you will obtain as much as $300 in onboard credit score and 10% off shore excursions and a wide range of drink and eating packages.

Abroad Journey Journey

Should you’re 50 or older and you are a fan of small-group cruises, you may enjoy $500 off any 2025 voyage with Abroad Journey Journey. Or, in the event you’re in a position to journey sooner, you may rating financial savings of as much as $5,300 per individual on choose voyages departing January by June 2025. Simply reserve your cabin by Dec. 2 utilizing promo code “BLACKFRIDAY24” to obtain the low cost. Plus, in the event you pay in full on the time of reserving, you will save a further 10%.

Luxurious cruisers can rating as much as a four-category cabin improve once they e-book one in all greater than 90 Oceania cruises departing in 2025. To make the deal much more attractive, you will additionally obtain a alternative of a premium alcohol bundle, as much as $1,000 in onboard credit score or free airfare. This promotion can be accessible on the Oceania website when it goes dwell Nov. 15; it is going to run by Dec. 10.

Royal Caribbean

As a part of its Black Friday Preview Sale, family-friendly cruise line Royal Caribbean is discounting sailings by as much as $750 and tossing in a further 60% off the second visitor fare while you e-book by Nov. 11. If that is not fairly sufficient, youngsters 12 and youthful sail free once they’re the third and fourth passengers in a cabin shared with two paying adults.

Via Dec. 4, Victory Cruise Lines — an all-inclusive small-ship line that sails the Nice Lakes and Canadian coast — is working a Black Friday sale that options $2,000 in financial savings per cabin on Nice Lakes voyages departing in April, Might and June 2025. You will additionally snag a free shore tour in your port of embarkation, which is able to both be Chicago or Toronto, relying on the itinerary you choose. Use code “BLACKFRIDAY” when reserving.

Viking

Viking, which operates river and ocean cruises, in addition to expedition sailings and voyages on the Nice Lakes, is extending financial savings and perks to passengers by Nov. 30. For all cruise varieties, vacationers can take pleasure in diminished fares, in addition to deposits of simply $25 per individual and free or discounted airfare.

River cruise passengers can take pleasure in inclusive cruise fares, free worldwide airfare between choose cities and $25 deposits on voyages by 2027. Ocean cruisers obtain diminished (from $750) or free worldwide airfare, fare reductions and $25 deposits on sailings by 2026. Expedition cruise choices embody diminished fares, free worldwide airfare between choose cities and $25 deposits.

Along with reserving immediately by your cruise line, you may also attain out to a travel adviser. Brokers have entry to the identical nice offers the traces are providing, however typically they’ll throw in just a few extra extras, corresponding to free bottles of wine or onboard credit score. Earlier than reserving something immediately, it is likely to be price a cellphone name.

For any cruise deal, run the numbers to see in the event you’re higher off reserving immediately with the cruise line, a journey agent or with an airline cruise trip specialist. United Cruises, for instance, regularly presents extra incentives for passengers to book through its portal. On the time of publication, cruisers who’ve Premier status with United may benefit from perks like free bottles of wine, spa credit score and bonus United miles once they e-book a crusing with choose traces by United Cruises.

American Airlines Cruises has an analogous portal that permits you to take pleasure in perks like waived deposits and bonus American Airlines AAdvantage miles.

Planning a cruise? Begin with these tales: