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Cruise shopping is needlessly complicated.

CruiseIndex is the independent research engine built to score every ship, fare, and review - so you know what a sailing is actually worth before you book.

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The three scores

Three scores. The whole story.

6.0
Vessel Class
The physical ship itself - space per guest, food, service, condition and safety record.
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4.7
Review Score
Actual passenger ratings, pooled from the major review sites.
9.2
Value Score
This fare against what that ship class, length and season normally costs.
Under the hood

What's beneath the surface

No black box - exactly what goes into every number.

Vessel Class

graded out of six

The ship itself, measured - not marketed.

Space per guestgross tonnage shared between passengers - how much ship you actually get
Food & servicepooled from expert assessments and thousands of passenger ratings
Condition & ageyear built against last refit - a freshly rebuilt ship scores like one
Health inspectionsofficial CDC sanitation scores, straight from the public record
Incident historypublic safety records - real incidents cost real points

The sixth star belongs to the top ~2% of the fleet.

Review Score

out of five

What thousands of passengers actually said, pooled into one comparable number.

Major review sites, cross-calibratedone site's 4.2 isn't another's 4.2 - we align the scales before blending
Volume-weighted4,000 reviews move the score; 40 barely nudge it
Aggregates onlywe compute from the ratings and never republish anyone's review

When passengers and the spec sheet disagree, both scores stand side by side.

Value Score

0 to 10

Today's fare against what this exact kind of sailing normally costs.

A fair price per sailingmodeled from ship class, cruise length and season
The gap is the scorethe further today's fare sits below fair, the higher it climbs
Luxury isn't punishedscored within its class, so a six-star ship can still be a bargain

5.0 means fairly priced. 9+ is the top slice of the whole fleet.

Same math for every line - no sponsored placements, no pay-to-rank.
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Who & when
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Ship & budget
Minimum scores
What matters to you
Tags are earned from each ship's own data - food, service, newness, space and traveler reviews. Pick any to narrow the list; a sailing must carry all the tags you choose.
What's on board
Filter to ships that actually have the facilities you want. Pick any - the list keeps only ships with all of them.
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Oceania Cruises is live - real sailings, real fares, updated from the line. Every other line still shows preview samples until its feed arrives; ship quality data is real throughout. - How the Index works →

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