Help & Guide

Everything you can do on Cruise Ship Wiki, in plain language: what each feature is, how to use it, and how to put it all together to plan a great cruise. New here? Start with the quick guide, then dip into whatever you need.

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Six minutes covering the deck plans, the ship pages, the Cruise Planner and everything a free account opens up.

🚢 The Fleet & ships

Browse every ship by cruise line. Each ship has its own page with the vital stats (size, year, capacity, decks), its history, and a link to its deck plans. Use The Fleet to explore, or Cruise Lines to start from a brand. Ships that have retired live under Closed Lines.

How to use it

• Open The Fleet and filter or search to find a ship.
• Click a ship to see specs, history, and its deck plans.
• Spot something out of date? You can suggest an edit - see Contribute.

📐 Interactive deck plans

Our signature feature: pan-and-zoom deck plans with every venue, bar, dining room, and cabin block labeled, deck by deck. Great for picking a cabin location, finding your way around before you sail, or settling a "where's the pool deck?" debate. Coverage is deepest for Royal Caribbean today and expanding across the fleet.

How to use it

• From a ship page, open its deck plans.
• Drag to pan and pinch or scroll to zoom. Switch decks from the deck list.
• Tap a labeled venue to read its name; use it to compare cabin locations relative to elevators, pools, and dining.

🧭 Cruise Planner & My Cruises

My Cruises is your personal cruise log - add the sailings you've taken and the ones you have booked. It's the backbone of the site: your logged sailings automatically drive your loyalty tiers and points math, and feed your planning tools.

How to use it

• Add a cruise: pick the ship, sail date, and nights. Mark it as sailed or upcoming.
• Or import them: the free Chrome Cruise Ship Wiki Importer reads your past and upcoming cruises from Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, Princess or Carnival, shows a preview of what is new, and adds them in one click. Steps and troubleshooting are in the User Manual.
• Your loyalty status updates from what you log - no manual point math.
• Use the planner to line up upcoming sailings and see them on a calendar alongside any offers.

🎖 Loyalty & tier tracking

Track your standing in each cruise line's loyalty program in one place - Royal Caribbean (Crown & Anchor), Celebrity (Captain's Club), Princess (Captain's Circle), and Carnival (Carnival Rewards) - on the Casino & Loyalty page. It also shows Royal Caribbean Group's automatic cross-brand status match, so you can see how your Crown & Anchor tier carries to sister brands.

Not booked yet, or just curious? The free cruise loyalty calculator works out which tier your upcoming sailings will reach on any of the four lines, no account needed. Note that Carnival Rewards status is based on the Stars you earn from spending, not nights sailed, so for Carnival we show the tiers and an estimate rather than tracking it from your cruise log.

How to use it

• Pick a cruise line at the top of the loyalty page to see its tiers, your progress, and benefits.
• Status comes from your cruise log plus any starting points you set (if you had a balance before you started logging).
• See how many more cruises you need for the next tier, based on your own average.

🎰 Casino offers & voucher wallet

If you play in the casino, this is the good stuff. Your voucher wallet (inside Casino & Loyalty) holds your casino offers - free cruises, discounted rates, onboard credit - with their codes, redeem-by dates, and eligible sailings, so nothing slips past its deadline. You can also track your Club Royale casino status alongside it.

Getting your offers in

There are three ways to fill your wallet:

Once they're in

• Offers show as active or past, with a heads-up when one is expiring soon.
• Use the Cruise Stacker to see which offers can combine, and the calendar to line offers up against sailings.
• Re-run the import anytime - it dedupes and updates, so your wallet mirrors what the cruise line currently shows.

Privacy: the helper reads only your offers list and sends it to your own wallet. It never sees, stores, or transmits your cruise-line password, and the site runs no ads and never sells your data.

🫒 The Muster Station

The Muster Station is where you meet the cruisers on your own sailing: swap plans before you board, compare notes at sea, and stay in touch afterward. Find it under The Muster Station.

How to use it

• Tick Booked with the cruise line (confirmed) on your sailing in My Cruises and you are added to its Muster Station automatically. Choose Leave the Muster Station to step out, or Rejoin the Muster Station to come back.
• Post to your sailing's board, find other members, and send connection requests. Once a request is accepted you can message each other or start a group chat.
• Your friends see your full name; everyone else on the sailing sees your first name and last initial.

Meet-Up Finder

Planning to meet friends in port? The Meet-Up Finder compares the itineraries of up to six travelers and shows the ports where you will all be ashore, and for how many hours.

• Enter each traveler's ship and sail date. Pick a friend's name from the suggestions so the invite reaches the right person.
• Choose Where to meet on a port to see restaurants, bars, beaches and attractions, or type your own spot.
• Choose Send message (tap twice to confirm). Tick Also email it to send a copy by email. Messages and emails go to friends only; for anyone else use Copy invite.
• Itineraries are available for Royal Caribbean ships so far.

🛍 Essentials & guides

Cruise Essentials and our guides pull together the practical stuff - what to pack, port pointers, and how-to-cruise basics - so first-timers and veterans alike can prep quickly.

📷 Contribute - photos & edits

Cruise Ship Wiki is community-maintained, and members make it better. With a free account you can add cabin and venue photos, submit suggested edits to ship and venue details, and even apply to become an editor.

How to use it

• See a gap or an error on a ship page? Use the suggest-edit option to propose a fix.
• Add photos from your own sailings to help the next traveler.
• Want to do more? Apply to become an editor from your account.

📱 The app & installing

Cruise Ship Wiki works great in any browser, and you can also keep it one tap away:

Install as an app (any phone, right now)

• iPhone/iPad (Safari): tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
• Android (Chrome): tap the menu (⋮), then Install app / Add to Home screen.
• It opens full-screen like a native app and works offline for pages you've already viewed.

A dedicated Android app is also on the way through Google Play. For now, the install-to-home-screen option above gives you the same one-tap experience on any device.

⛵ Plan a cruise, step by step

Here's how the pieces fit together to actually plan a trip:

❓ Frequently asked questions

More features are on the way - additional cruise lines, more deck plans, and wayfinding tools. Thanks for cruising with an independent, community-built resource.