Affiliate disclosure
The short version. Some links from this site to cruise lines and travel retailers are affiliate links. If you click one and go on to book, we may be paid a commission by that company. You pay exactly the same either way.
What this changes about the site
Nothing about the schedule. Specifically:
- Every sailing that we can verify is listed, whether or not there is a commission attached to it.
- Sailings are ordered by departure date, never by what pays best.
- No cruise line pays for placement, and no line has been left off because it does not have a programme.
- Prices shown are the published starting fares we recorded. They are not marked up.
We would rather the schedule be worth returning to than squeeze a click out of a single visit. A schedule that quietly hid the cheapest sailing because it paid nothing would not be worth publishing.
Current status
Fare links for Carnival Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Norwegian Cruise Line go to Cruisebound, a cruise booking site, through impact.com. If you book after following one, we are paid a commission by Cruisebound and you pay no more than you otherwise would.
Margaritaville at Sea is not carried by Cruisebound, so its links go straight to the cruise line and earn nothing. We have not moved those sailings down the page or left them out because of it.
The promotions shown on cruise line pages are Cruisebound's, not ours. We list what it is advertising and when it says the offer ends, both taken from its own feed and last confirmed on 2026-10-16. We have not verified that any particular discount applies to any particular Tampa sailing, because that depends on the cabin, the date and the number of passengers. The fares in our tables are the ones we recorded ourselves and include none of it.
Discounts that depend on who you are, for military, first responders, residents of qualifying states, teachers and guests over 55, are deliberately left out of those blocks. Every cruise line verifies those itself and they cannot be claimed through a booking site, so listing them beside a paid link would promise something the link cannot deliver. They are covered in who qualifies for what, which links to the cruise lines and earns us nothing.
How links are marked
Outbound commercial links carry rel="sponsored" (or rel="nofollow sponsored"
where no programme is in place), in line with search engine guidance. They open in a new tab.
Prices and quotes
We do not sell cruises and we cannot quote you one. Fares shown here are starting rates, recorded by hand on the date displayed beside them, and change frequently. The price you are offered by the cruise line is the real one.
Independence
CruisesTampaBay is not affiliated with Port Tampa Bay or with any cruise line. See about this site for how the schedule is compiled and verified.