About this site
CruisesTampaBay is an independent schedule of cruises departing Port Tampa Bay. It lists 464 sailings on 12 ships from 5 cruise lines, between August 2026 and April 2028.
It is a planning resource, not a booking engine. There is no cart, no login, no account and no newsletter. When you want to actually book, we send you to the cruise line.
How the schedule is compiled
Every sailing here is compiled by hand from published sources and then cross-checked. Nothing is generated, estimated or filled in from memory. Specifically:
- Departure dates and ships come from Port Tampa Bay's turnaround schedule — the record of which ship is alongside on which day.
- Itineraries, durations and ports of call come from the cruise lines' published itinerary listings.
- The two are then matched against each other. A sailing that appears in both, on the same date with the same ship, is treated as confirmed.
- Starting fares are recorded by hand per ship, itinerary and season, and carry the date they were checked.
What the confidence levels mean
Rather than quietly dropping anything we could not fully verify, we list it and flag it. As of 2026-08-29:
| Status | Count | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Confirmed | 414 | Appears in both the port turnaround schedule and the ship's published itinerary, matching on ship and date. |
| Single source | 50 | Published by the cruise line but beyond the end of the port's released turnaround schedule, so not yet cross-checkable. Ports are still verified. |
The port schedule has been cross-checked through 2027-12-31. Every sailing listed on this site has a verified list of ports of call. Where we can see that a ship is turning around in Tampa on a given day but cannot confirm where it goes, the sailing is left off rather than published with gaps. That means the schedule is deliberately incomplete in places — we would rather omit a departure than guess at it.
One caveat on ports of call: we record which ports a sailing visits, not the order it visits them in. The sequence is set by the line and occasionally changes; check the line's own day-by-day itinerary if the running order matters to you.
About the prices
Fares shown are starting rates per person for the lowest available cabin grade, on a double-occupancy basis. They are recorded manually and carry the date they were checked — you will see that date beside every price on the site.
They are not live quotes and they are not guaranteed. Cruise pricing moves daily. Treat the number as an indication of what a sailing costs relative to its neighbours, which is what it is genuinely good for, and get an actual quote from the line.
Where we have no recorded fare for a sailing, it shows "check prices" rather than a made-up number.
How often it is updated
Monthly. Each refresh re-checks one fare per ship and itinerary combination, appends newly published sailings at the far end of the window, and corrects anything that has changed or been cancelled. Past sailings drop off the site automatically at build time. The date of the last refresh is shown at the top of every listing page and in the footer.
Sources
- CruiseTimetables — per-ship and Port Tampa Bay schedules — departure dates, itinerary names, durations, ship capacities.
- Tampa Cruise Guide line pages — ports of call.
- The Cruise Web ship pages — published from-fares (taxes and fees included).
- Margaritaville at Sea — Islander itinerary ports and lead fares.
Independence
This site is not affiliated with Port Tampa Bay, with any cruise line, or with any travel agency. Outbound links to cruise lines may be affiliate links — see the affiliate disclosure for what that means and how it affects what you see here (short version: it does not affect which sailings we list or how they are ordered).
Corrections
If a sailing here is wrong, we would rather know. Schedules change constantly and no manually compiled list stays perfect between refreshes.