About Repositioning Cruises
Repositioning Cruises is a specialist site about one narrow corner of cruising: the one-way voyages that happen when a ship has to move between seasons. In spring, the fleet sails from the Caribbean to Europe and from Australia to Alaska. In autumn it sails back. Those crossings are sold as cruises, and because the line needs the ship moved anyway, they are usually the cheapest nights at sea you can buy.
Why a whole site about repositioning cruises
These voyages are badly served by the big cruise sites. They get one page of generic copy, because they are hard to search for: they run once or twice a year, they never return to the port they left from, and the good ones sell out before the marketing budget arrives. Meanwhile the questions people actually have are specific. How do you get home from Barcelona after boarding in Fort Lauderdale? How many sea days in a row is too many? Is a transatlantic in November rough?
This site answers those questions, route by route and line by line.
What you will find here
- Route guides for the crossings that actually run: transatlantic in both directions, transpacific, Australia and New Zealand, Alaska at each end of the season.
- Line-by-line breakdowns of how Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Norwegian, Celebrity, MSC, Princess, Holland America and Cunard handle repositioning sailings, since the experience differs more than the brochures suggest.
- Cost analysis that includes the part most people forget: the one-way flight home, which can erase the saving if you book it late.
- Practical planning: when itineraries are released, when prices drop, and what a long run of sea days is genuinely like.
How we work
Prices and dates on this site are checked against the cruise lines’ own published itineraries, and every article carries the date it was last updated. Where something is a judgment call rather than a fact, we say so. Where a sailing has sold out or a route has been dropped, we update the article rather than leaving it to age quietly.
The site carries advertising and may earn commission from some links. That never decides which cruises we recommend: a cheap crossing on an older ship is still the better buy for most people, and we will keep saying so.
Get in touch
Corrections, questions and first-hand reports from your own crossing are all welcome. Sailed a repositioning route and found the reality different from what you read here? Tell us, and we will update the guide.