Name Your Price Cruise Requests
Start with your number. Our cruise advisors at Mister Cruise find the sailings that fit it.
Tell Us Your PriceA Name Your Price Cruise, Done the Honest Way
Most cruise searches start with a ship and end with a shock at the checkout page. A name your price cruise request turns that round: you start with the amount you are comfortable spending, and our cruise advisors at Mister Cruise work backwards to the sailings that fit it. You keep control of the number; we do the searching across the lines.
There is no auction and no hidden bid. Fares belong to the cruise lines, and they change constantly. What changes in your favor is the order of the questions. Instead of asking “what does this ship cost?”, we ask “what can this budget buy, and what would you happily give up to get more of what matters?”
Why you will not find prices here. Fares move with demand, sometimes several times a week, and every figure depends on the date, the cabin and who is sharing it. A number printed on this page would be wrong for most readers. Give us your number instead, and our cruise advisors at Mister Cruise will tell you what it buys on the day you ask.
How a Your Price Request Works
| Step | What you do | What our advisors do |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Name the number | Give a total for the trip, or a figure per person, and say what it has to cover | Confirm whether taxes, fees, gratuities and flights sit inside it |
| 2. Set the must-haves | Tell us the two or three things you will not give up | Treat those as fixed and everything else as movable |
| 3. Mark what can bend | Say which of dates, cabin, ship, length and departure port can change | Search the lines with those levers open |
| 4. Compare matches | Look at a short list of sailings inside your budget | Explain what each option gives and what it leaves out |
| 5. Decide | Book, adjust, or walk away | Hold, book and look after the reservation if you go ahead |
The full walk-through, with a sample request, is on how to name your price.
Start With a Cruise Budget You Can Stand Behind
A good cruise budget is one number with a clear boundary around it. Is it the cruise fare only, or the whole holiday including flights and a hotel the night before? Does it include drinks and gratuities, or will those come from spending money? Once the edges are clear, the matching becomes fast and the quotes become comparable.
Our cruise budget page sorts budgets into plain-language bands — from “as little as possible” to “spend it well” — and shows what each band usually means for the ship, the cabin and the season, without pretending to know today’s fares.
What This Site Covers
How to name your price
The request itself: what to tell us, in what order, and a sample you can copy.
Setting a cruise budget
Total or per person, what to include, and budget bands described in words, not dollars.
What flexes to hit your number
Dates, cabin, ship age, sailing length, region and homeport — the six levers.
How much does a cruise cost per person?
Why fares are quoted per person, double occupancy, and what moves the figure.
A family of four
Quad cabins, connecting rooms, kids’ fares and the family budget levers.
Can you negotiate cruise prices?
What can genuinely be changed, what cannot, and how to ask.
Why Start With the Number?
Because the same budget can buy very different holidays. One couple’s figure might buy a balcony on a newer ship in the shoulder season, or an inside cabin on the same ship in school holidays, or a longer sailing on an older, smaller ship with more ports. None of those is the “right” answer until you say which matters most. Naming your price first forces that conversation early, when it is still cheap to change course.
It also protects you from the slow creep of upgrades. When the target is written down, each extra — a better cabin category, a drinks package, a specialty restaurant — has to earn its place against the number rather than slipping in one click at a time.
Who Handles Your Request
Your Price Cruise is part of the Smart Traveler network, led by Mister Cruise. He has sold travel since 1972 and worked full-time in the industry since 1977. He has sold or originated more than $500 million in cruises and has trained more than 500 travel agents.
Send us your number and our cruise advisors at Mister Cruise will search the lines, explain the trade-offs in plain English and book the sailing you choose. Not a call center, and never a bidding game. Meet Mister Cruise →
Want to see live promotions before you name a figure? Cruising for Less and Wave Season track current offers, and the Mister Cruise cruise-offers newsletter sends new ones as they appear. For how quotes are built and compared, our sister site Best Cruise Quote explains it step by step.
Name Your Price: Quick Answers
What is a name your price cruise request?
It is a quote request that starts with your number instead of a ship. You tell our cruise advisors at Mister Cruise what you want to spend, who is travelling and roughly when, and they come back with the sailings that fit. Send yours through the free quote form.
Is this a bidding site?
No. Nobody bids and nothing is booked automatically. Cruise lines set their own fares; we search them for you and show you which ones land inside your budget, with the trade-offs explained.
What if nothing fits my number?
We say so plainly and show you the nearest options, along with which single change — a different week, a different cabin type, a shorter sailing — would bring one inside it.
Does it cost anything to ask?
No. The quote is free, and you are under no obligation to book.
Name Your Price
Tell us your budget, who is going and roughly when. Our cruise advisors at Mister Cruise will send the sailings that fit, free and with no obligation.
Tell Us Your Price