Cruise-deal vocabulary
Per-day price
One honest axis for every length of cruise.
A cruise fare hides its real cost inside the length of the trip. A short getaway and a two-week voyage carry very different sticker prices, but the sticker tells you almost nothing about value. Per-day price fixes that: we take the fare, put it on a per-person basis, and divide by the number of nights. Suddenly every cruise we track sits on one honest axis.
This is the math seasoned cruisers do in their heads on every fare. We do it on all of them at once — which makes an expensive short cruise look expensive, and a long repositioning voyage look like the value it often is.
CruiseMiner computes per-day price for every sailing we track. Sort by it and the cheapest genuine values rise to the top, regardless of trip length or headline fare.
We layer two letter grades on top: a Deal grade for how the price rates against true peers, and a Line grade for how it rates within its own cruise line. A per-day number tells you what it costs; the grades tell you whether that cost is actually good.
The short version
- Fare ÷ nights, per person — comparable across any trip length.
- Surfaces long-voyage value that headline fares hide.
- Paired with Deal and Line letter grades on every result.
Frequently asked questions
- How is cruise cost per day calculated?
- Take the fare on a per-person basis and divide by the number of nights. That puts short and long cruises on one comparable axis.
- Is per-day the same as the price I pay the line?
- No. It is a comparison tool. Always confirm the total fare, taxes, and fees with the cruise line before booking. Prices here are estimates.