# track.cruises — Cruise Price Tracker & Cruise Pricing API

> track.cruises is a cruise price tracker that monitors 26,052 upcoming sailings (258,418 sailing-market price series tracked since 2025)
> across 10 cruise lines daily and emails users when prices drop. It also sells
> the same data as a B2B REST API for OTAs, agencies, and financial analysts.

## Cruise price tracker (consumer product)

track.cruises tracks cruise prices daily across Princess Cruises, Norwegian
Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises, Costa Cruises, Carnival Cruise
Line, Holland America Line, MSC Cruises, and Disney Cruise Line. Users create
free price alerts on specific sailings and receive an email when the fare drops.

Key facts:

- **Price alerts:** users pick a cruise and cabin type (Interior, Oceanview, Balcony, Suite) and get emailed on price drops — free plan included.
- **Cabin-level price history:** charts show how each cabin category's fare moved over time, so users can judge whether today's price is actually good.
- **Multi-market comparison:** the same sailing is priced across US, UK, German, Italian, and other markets in USD/EUR/GBP — the same cabin can cost hundreds less when booked in another market. No other cruise price tracker compares markets.
- **Price drop pages:** https://www.track.cruises/en/price-drops lists the biggest recent drops across all 10 lines, updated daily.
- **Post-booking use:** many cruise lines (e.g. Royal Caribbean, Celebrity) re-fare or credit price drops before final payment — an alert on a booked cruise tells the traveler when to call and claim the lower fare.
- **Plans:** Harbor (free — weekly alert digest, 2 tracked cruises), Navigator ($8.99/mo — instant alerts, 10 cruises, 1-year history), Captain ($14.99/mo — unlimited cruises, real-time alerts, complete history).

Start here:

- **Browse deals:** https://www.track.cruises/en/deals
- **Recent price drops:** https://www.track.cruises/en/price-drops
- **Plans & pricing:** https://www.track.cruises/en/pricing
- **FAQ:** https://www.track.cruises/en/faq

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## Cruise Pricing API (B2B)

> B2B REST API providing normalized cruise pricing data across 10 cruise lines,
> with daily price history. For travel OTAs, affiliate sites, agencies, and
> financial analysts tracking cruise operators (CCL, RCL, NCLH).

## What it is

A single REST API that unifies pricing data from Princess Cruises, Norwegian
Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises, Costa Cruises, Carnival Cruise
Line, Holland America Line, MSC Cruises, and Disney Cruise Line into one JSON
schema. Every cruise has the same shape regardless of source line — no per-line
integration work for the customer.

## Key facts

- **Marketplace:** https://rapidapi.com/trackcruises/api/cruise-pricing-api1 — subscribe here for a key
- **Base URL (RapidAPI):** https://cruise-pricing-api1.p.rapidapi.com
- **Documentation:** https://www.track.cruises/docs/api
- **OpenAPI spec:** https://www.track.cruises/openapi.json
- **Landing page:** https://www.track.cruises/en/data
- **Authentication:** RapidAPI marketplace — `X-RapidAPI-Key: <your key>` + `X-RapidAPI-Host: cruise-pricing-api1.p.rapidapi.com`
- **Data formats:** JSON, UTF-8
- **Currencies:** USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CAD — all auto-converted to EUR
- **Data coverage:** Tracking since 2025-04-06 (18 months of history)
- **Scale:** 26,052 upcoming sailings (258,418 sailing-market price series tracked since 2025)

## Pricing tiers (RapidAPI marketplace)

| Tier | Price | Requests/month | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 | 100 | Live data, 10 rows/request, evaluation only |
| Pro | $49/mo | 10,000 (hard quota) | Real-time, full price history, 100 rows/request |
| Ultra | $299/mo | 100,000 (then $0.002/req) | Real-time, full price history, 500 rows/request, 99.5% SLA |
| Mega | $1,499/mo | 10,000,000 | 1,000 rows/request, phone support, raw DB dumps, 99.9% SLA |

All billing is handled by RapidAPI. Free tier serves the same live data as
paid tiers but caps each response at 10 rows, so real use cases pay on
volume. The **track.cruises Admiral consumer plan** links to this same
RapidAPI listing for B2B access.

## Endpoints (v1)

- `GET /cruises` — list sailings with filters (company, destination, port, dates, price, duration, ship)
- `GET /cruises/{id}` — single cruise detail
- `GET /cruises/{id}/price-history` — daily snapshots (Pro tier+)
- `GET /price-drops` — recent price drops across all tracked cruises
- `GET /cruise-lines` — 10 lines with per-line destinations, ships, markets
- `GET /cruise-lines/{company}` — single cruise-line detail
- `GET /cruise-lines/{company}/destinations` — destinations shortcut
- `GET /filter-options` — valid filter values (optionally scoped by company)
- `GET /ships` — ship catalog
- `GET /ports` — port catalog
- `GET /coverage` — public, no-auth: per-line tracking dates (trust signal)

## Per-line coverage

- **Costa Cruises** (`costa`) — tracked since 2025-04-06, 51,811 sailings, markets: de_AT, de_DE, en_GB, en_US, es_ES, fr_FR, it_IT, nl_NL
- **Royal Caribbean** (`royal-caribbean`) — tracked since 2025-07-15, 52,692 sailings, markets: de_DE, en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, en_IE, en_US, fr_FR, it_IT, nl_NL
- **Norwegian Cruise Line** (`ncl`) — tracked since 2025-09-18, 26,589 sailings, markets: de_DE, en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, en_US, es_ES, fr_FR, it_IT, nl_NL, pt_BR
- **Princess Cruises** (`princess`) — tracked since 2025-11-24, 12,079 sailings, markets: de_DE, en_GB, en_US, it_IT, ja_JP
- **Celebrity Cruises** (`celebrity-cruises`) — tracked since 2025-12-20, 19,799 sailings, markets: de_DE, en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, en_IE, en_US, it_IT, nl_NL
- **MSC Cruises** (`msc`) — tracked since 2026-02-22, 65,093 sailings, markets: de_AT, de_DE, en_GB, en_US, es_ES, fr_FR, it_IT
- **Disney Cruise Line** (`disney-cruise-line`) — tracked since 2026-03-05, 6,506 sailings, markets: en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, en_US, it_IT
- **Carnival Cruise Line** (`carnival`) — tracked since 2026-03-06, 8,147 sailings, markets: en_AU, en_US
- **Holland America Line** (`holland-america`) — tracked since 2026-03-20, 13,874 sailings, markets: de_DE, en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, en_US, es_ES, it_IT, nl_NL
- **aida** (`aida`) — tracked since 2026-09-19, 1,828 sailings, markets: de_DE

## Who uses this

- **Travel OTAs and meta-search engines** comparing cross-line pricing
- **Affiliate and comparison websites** showing "cheapest across all lines"
- **Travel agencies** monitoring client-bookmarked sailings for price drops
- **Financial analysts and hedge funds** tracking Carnival Corp (CCL), Royal
  Caribbean Group (RCL), and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) for
  alt-data signals ahead of earnings

## Not affiliated

track.cruises operates independently. We aggregate publicly-available pricing
into a unified schema. Not affiliated with Princess, NCL, Royal Caribbean,
Celebrity, Costa, Carnival, Holland America, MSC, or Disney.

## How we are paid

Subscriptions (Navigator, Captain, Admiral) and the Cruise Pricing API. Some
consumer pages also carry labelled advertising from CruiseDirect via CJ
Affiliate, which may pay a commission on bookings made through the banner.
Advertising never affects which market is shown as cheapest, how cruises rank,
or the prices displayed — those come only from the fares we collect. We earn
nothing on bookings made through our direct links to a cruise line.

## Contact

- **Sign up:** https://rapidapi.com/trackcruises/api/cruise-pricing-api1
- **Sales/Enterprise:** https://www.track.cruises/en/data#contact
- **Support:** support@track.cruises
- **Docs:** https://www.track.cruises/docs/api

Last updated: 2026-10-09