您每天应该在游轮上预算多少钱

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So, you’ve booked yourself a cruise on a big, beautiful cruise ship. Hopefully, you got yourself an awesome deal (if you haven’t booked one yet, read this blog post for the places I check for cruise deals) and you’ve budgeted out paying off the cost of the cruise, but, how much should you allocate for spending each day of the cruise?

This is a tough question because everyone is different, and just as importantly, every cruise booking is different!

So, let’s start with some things to consider about the booking itself, and then dive into you and what you like to do (or drink).

Things to take into account regarding the cruise booking

1. Length of the cruise

How long is it? Chances are, the longer you spend around the ship, the more likely you are to spend money on the paid options, be it premium speciality restaurants, paid entertainment, drinks, or other activities.

2. The ratio of port days to sea days

More ports mean you are more likely to spend money on land, and probably on excursions that are going to cost more than you might spend at sea.

Some cruises have a lot of sea days
Some cruises have a lot of sea days, like this one from Wellington, 新西兰 to Tahiti, French Polynesia.

If you have a lot of sea days in a row though, like a transpacific or transatlantic cruise, you may also find that you are likely to spend more money on the ship after a couple of days in a row at sea.

3. Onboard credit

Did your booking include onboard credit? If so, how much? The more onboard credit you have then the less you are likely to spend onboard unless of course, the credit gives you the taste for paid upgrades

What do you like to do?

1. Port days

Do you like to go on excursions or do you prefer to walk around the city you are docked in and see things for yourself at your own pace. Chances are, you’ll pay more for shore excursions booked through the ship, but you might consider them separate from your daily budget if they are pre-booked.

Shore excursions can offer unmissable experiences, like hovercrafting to Taku Glacier in Alaska
Shore excursions can offer unmissable experiences, like riding a hovercraft to Taku Glacier in Alaska

Port days have lots of opportunities to spend money on other things as well, from local food to souvenirs, if that’s your thing.

2. Taste everything

Every cruise ship has complimentary dining options and most also have paid dining options. Typically referred to as speciality restaurants, these paid venues provide a unique atmosphere and higher quality dining experience (usually). 桑巴烧烤排骨格栅 are a couple of the paid options on 皇家加勒比 ships.

Dining at Chops Grille on Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas
Dining at Chops Grille on 皇家加勒比’s Explorer of the Seas

There are a few exceptions to paid speciality restaurants though. More expensive cruise lines tend to include more options at no cost, and surprisingly, P&O游轮澳大利亚 also includes a couple of premium options at no cost, like the delicious, Asian inspired Dragon Lady.

Szechuan Blackened Salmon at Dragon Lady
Szechuan Blackened Salmon at Dragon Lady on P&O Cruises

So, if you want to taste all of the delectable treats onboard a cruise ship, it’s probably going to cost you. You’ll need to budget around USD $25-$40 per person to dine these options, though prices do vary with some only requiring a single cover charge and others operating on ala carte pricing (like Izumi’s Japanese restaurant on 皇家加勒比).

3. Drink

It doesn’t really matter what your choice of beverage is, from soft drink to barista coffee to alcohol, you will have to pay for most of these kinds of drinks on most cruise ships. Typically, cruise lines offer drinks packages that are a daily price for specified included drinks. For example, a soft-drink package may include unlimited soft-drinks each day.

Different cruise lines (and even ships within the same cruise line) provide different complimentary drink options, but if you want to drink soft-drink, barista coffee, or alcohol frequently, you’ll either have to pay individually for each drink or get a drinks package.

Mocktails might set you back anywhere from $5 to $12 like this one on Princess Cruises
Mocktails might set you back anywhere from $5 to $12 like this one on Princess Cruises.

For one or two drinks a day you will be better off purchasing the drinks individually, but they can be pricey. Think around USD $3 for a can of soft-drink, USD $5+ for a barista coffee, and of course more for alcoholic beverages.

Barista coffee on Radiance of the Seas
Barista coffee on 海洋光芒

Beverage packages can add up very quickly though, with some cruise lines requiring all passengers in a cabin to purchase the same drinks package. Budget up to USD $100/day on drinks depending on the type of drinks you want. You might even find it costs more than that. We rarely buy more than 1 or 2 drinks each on an entire cruise, maybe a hot chocolate or milkshake, but that’s it.

4. Entertainment

Much of the entertainment on a cruise ship is complimentary, but, like food, there are some premium options. These paid options vary from ship to ship but can include things like murder mystery dinners, premium circus shows, behind the scenes ship tours, mechanical bull competitions and a whole lot more.

One of the complimentary shows on Jewel of the Seas
Most ships have regular complimentary shows and entertainment, like this one on 海洋宝石.

Premium entertainment options vary massively between cruise lines and ships, you can be looking at anywhere from USD $10 for a once-off activity or show through to USD $100 for ship tours and then premium dinner shows can get even higher.

The paid Love Riot show on P&O Cruises
The paid Love Riot show on P&O游轮 Pacific Explorer ship will set you back AUD $15 per person for standard seats or $39 for VIP seats in the front rows – which also have some interactive elements included.

Many cruise lines that offer paid activities, like the P&O Edge Adventure Park, also offer packages that include multiple or unlimited uses of certain things like zip lines, rock climbing or bull rides.

You can usually book paid entertainment options in advance as well as onboard, and you can typically get some idea of pricing beforehand.

Behind the Scenes Galley Tour on Jewel of the Seas
Behind the Scenes Galley Tour on 海洋宝石

5. Spa and wellness

The spa at sea is a big one for some people. You can get all sorts of treatments from botox through to massages. It tends to be pretty expensive though. I’ve previously put up a spa price list here海洋光芒. It’s a couple of years old now, but it gives you some idea of what to expect. On some ships, you may also find a full hairdressers salon and facilities as well.

The Salon on Radiance of the Seas
The Salon on 海洋光芒

Spa and wellness also incorporates the gym and related personal training programs. This kind of thing varies from exercise programs through to classes on diet and assessments to help you improve back pain and so on.

Really, there can be all kinds of things in the wellness category and it does depend both on what facilities the ship has and what crew members it has that are trained in these areas.

Sometimes the wellness programs are free or partially free, but they usually feed into paid programs with varying prices.

I personally don’t know how anyone finds the time to do these programs, but clearly people do, and if it sounds like you, then best budget some extra dollars for it.

6. Special occasions

Is there a special occasion or event happening on this cruise? A birthday? Anniversary? Wedding? Chances are, you might want to splurge on some extras here. Cruise ships can provide a lot of options, but there is always a cost attached.

So how much money should you budget for each day?

On port days, if it is a port that has shore excursions you really want to do, I’d suggest budgeting at least $200 per person. If you don’t want to do shore excursions, you can easily keep your day cost below $50 per person. Remember, just because you are in port doesn’t mean you have to spend money.

On sea days, you can easily not spend anything at all, but if you like to vary things up a bit and try different dining options and activities while drinking a couple of premium beverages a day (no beverage package), you could budget around $60 per person per day. Again, you don’t have to spend anything on the ship either.

It really just depends on what you like to do and what you prioritise. It is entirely possible to do a long cruise and not spend a dollar at all. For us, we usually pick our priority shore excursions and then we may do one or two speciality dining nights or paid entertainment option. It depends on the length of the cruise and number of sea days though.

So we usually end up spending about $100 per person plus shore excursions for the entire trip.

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How about you?

What is your daily budget on a cruise and how do you work it out? Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments below!

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航班: 我们检查了几个网站的不同价格。从澳大利亚出发,我总是直接检查澳航的奖励航班,但除此之外,我会检查并比较航班费用 天巡.检查替代路线和日期总是值得的,尤其是在有多个中途停留选项或附近替代机场的情况下。

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  1. This was super interesting to read as I’ve never been on a cruise but definitely intrigued, ever since I got back from Sydney. It was quite the sight to see the cruise ships coming and going in the harbour so I can completely relate to your top picture. Shame the cruise ships have gained a bit of a reputation since Covid hit with the Princess Ruby disaster. Would you say this has put you off cruise ships?

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    • Hey Carolin, thanks for the comment, I’m glad you found it an interesting read. It is a shame, especially given it certainly isn’t their fault people are unhygienic. Cruises were already the most hygienic means of travel that I’ve come across – the people that intentionally avoid the hygiene rules are the sad reason for the reputation hit, that combined with the decision of NSW Health to approve everyone to debark without testing. Unfortunately, I’ve not been on Ruby Princess, but would love to, she usually has some brilliant itineraries up and down between Australia and Japan! I’ve been eyeing them off for a while and would do one in a heartbeat. Coronavirus hasn’t put me off cruising at all. If anything, it’s only made it even more hygienic than it already was. People are actually paying attention to the importance of hygiene now and are far less likely to try and avoid the hand sanitiser and hand washing requirements that have been present on every cruise I’ve ever been on. This is just something that is normal now, people are used to using hand sanitiser every time they enter a shop or public space, so it’s really becoming a habit. Can’t wait to get on another cruise!!! I’m hanging out for it soooo much!

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