Affiliate disclosure
The short version. Links marked Ad are paid links to travel retailers. If you click one and go on to book, that company pays us a commission. You pay exactly the same either way.
What this changes about the site
Nothing about the schedule. Specifically:
- Sailings are ordered by departure date, never by what pays best.
- No cruise line pays for placement.
- We list the sailings from Southampton that Cruisebound sells and we can verify. Lines it does not sell from here, such as P&O Cruises and Fred. Olsen, have no fares or ports on the site. They appear only on the all-ship calendar, with their dates and terminals, and nobody pays us for that.
- Prices shown are the published starting fares we recorded. They are not marked up.
We would rather the schedule be worth returning to than squeeze a click out of a single visit. A schedule that quietly hid the cheapest sailing because it paid nothing would not be worth publishing.
Current status
Fare links for Celebrity Cruises, Royal Caribbean International, Princess Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Cunard, Seabourn, Silversea, MSC Cruises, Disney Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Explora Journeys go to Cruisebound, a cruise booking site, through impact.com. If you book after following one, we are paid a commission by Cruisebound and you pay no more than you otherwise would.
The promotions on cruise line pages are Cruisebound's, not ours. We list what it advertises and when it says an offer ends, both from its own feed, last confirmed on 2026-11-02. We have not checked that a particular discount applies to a particular Southampton sailing, because that depends on the cabin, the date and how many of you are travelling. The fares in our tables are the ones we recorded ourselves and include none of it.
The "Check prices" buttons in our hotel guides open the hotel on Booking.com, through Booking.com North America's programme on CJ, and so does the hotel search on the homepage. If you book a room in the same visit, Booking.com pays us a commission. Which hotels we list, and in what order, comes from their distance to the terminal and what each hotel's own website says about cruise passengers. A hotel Booking.com doesn't carry is listed the same way, without a button.
Discounts that depend on who you are, for military, first responders, residents of qualifying states, teachers and guests over 55, are deliberately left out of those blocks. Each cruise line verifies those itself and they cannot be claimed through a booking site, so listing them beside a paid link would promise something the link cannot deliver.
How links are marked
Every paid link shows a small Ad mark, and a line at the top of the page says
what it means, so you can see which links pay us before you click. In the code, outbound
commercial links also carry rel="sponsored" (or rel="nofollow sponsored"
where no programme is in place), in line with search engine guidance. They open in a new tab.
Prices and quotes
We do not sell cruises and we cannot quote you one. Fares shown here are starting rates. A script reads them from the booking site, the date beside each one shows when, and they change frequently. The price you are offered by the cruise line is the real one.
Independence
Southampton Cruise Calendar is not affiliated with the Port of Southampton or with any cruise line. See about this site for how the schedule is compiled and verified.
