Today’s Best Cruise Deals: 6 Premium Nights for $576, Taxes Included

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It’s Friday, so we go back through everything we found this week and check whether it still stands up. Most of it does — and two Celebrity fares are $150 cheaper today than they were yesterday. Four of the week’s best offers also expire within five days, which makes this the weekend to decide.

Every price below was checked on September 18, 2026, directly on each cruise line’s site. Nothing is carried over from an earlier post without being looked at again today. Fares change constantly, so confirm before you book.

⭐ Deal of the Day: 6 Premium Nights for $576, Taxes Included

Celebrity Cruises · Celebrity Silhouette · 6 nights · Grand Cayman, Mexico & Bahamas · from Fort Lauderdale · sails December 13, 2026

Celebrity lists this sailing at $576 per person, taxes and fees included — about $96 a night. We logged the same departure at $726 yesterday, so it has dropped $150 per person overnight. Sub-$100 a night is good on any line; getting it on a premium ship, in December, with taxes already inside the number, is the best value we verified all week.

Watch for: Celebrity’s last-minute discounts are not combinable with its other promotions, and gratuities are still charged separately. See Celebrity’s deals →

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1. Celebrity: Two Fares Fell $150 Today, and the Sale Ends Monday Night

Celebrity’s last-minute page, “Final Rooms at GREAT RATES,” states a hard cut-off of 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, September 21, 2026. The main sale is 75% off your second guest’s fare, up to $750 in savings, plus $100 off all Caribbean sailings, with third and fourth guests sailing free on select departures. Celebrity’s prices include taxes and fees, which makes them the easiest here to compare. Today’s sailings:

• Celebrity Reflection, 8 nights, Aruba, Bonaire & Curaçao, from Fort Lauderdale, September 4, 2027: $848 per person (about $106 a night) — down from $998 yesterday.
• Celebrity Silhouette, 8 nights, Aruba, Curaçao & Bonaire, from Fort Lauderdale, October 30, 2027: $783 per person (about $98 a night).
• Celebrity Beyond, 7 nights, Grand Cayman, Mexico & Bahamas, from Fort Lauderdale, December 6, 2026: $860 per person (about $123 a night).

Watch for: not everything fell. That Silhouette 8-night was $762 last Saturday, and the Beyond December 6 sailing was $830. Celebrity’s inventory moves both ways.

2. Princess: A Weekend Flash Sale That Closes Monday

This one is brand new today. Princess has posted a Weekend Flash Sale — “Up to $400 Instant Savings + Up to 40% Off”, plus up to $100 onboard credit per stateroom and $99 deposits — bookable September 18 to 21, 2026 only. It runs across the Caribbean, Alaska, Europe and Mexico.

Watch for: both the savings and the credit scale with cruise length and cabin category, so “up to” is doing real work. It’s capacity-controlled, limited to North American residents aged 21 and over, and Princess excludes world cruises, full suites, voyages of 45 days or more and anything already past final payment. See Princess deals →

3. Holland America: Up to 50% Off Tropical Cruises, Book by Wednesday

“Save on Sunshine: Up to 50% off Tropical Cruises” adds up to $200 onboard credit per stateroom on Fall 2026 to Spring 2027 sailings — Caribbean, Mexico, Panama Canal and holiday departures. Holland America calls it “one week only” and gives a book-by date of September 23: five days away, and it was already running on Thursday. See Holland America’s deals →

4. Carnival: Drink and Wi-Fi Bundles, Locked In Until September 30

Carnival’s Cruise Value Packages are on sale for purchase through September 30, 2026, covering sailings that depart from now until December 31, 2027. This is the one deal here you can use on a cruise you have already booked:

• Kids & Teens, $25 per person, per day (ages 3 to 17): Bottomless Bubbles, social Wi-Fi and 1,000 arcade tokens.
• Essentials, $50 per person, per day: Cheers! Zero Proof, Value Wi-Fi, $50 off an excursion and $25 off specialty dining.
• Ultimate, $90 per person, per day: the full Cheers! alcoholic package, premium Wi-Fi, the same credits, plus 50% off spa and photo packages.

Watch for: Carnival’s rule is that every guest aged 21 or over in the cabin must buy either Ultimate or Essentials. The kids’ package has no such requirement. See Carnival’s packages →

5. Viking: Hold a 2027 Cabin for $25, Until September 30

Viking’s End of Season Sale — “Reduced Airfare | Special Fares | $25 Deposit” — still shows an expiry of September 30, 2026. The deposit is the point: $25 holds an Alaska cabin while you think about it.

New on the page today: Alaskan Fjords & the Inside Passage, 15 days, Vancouver to Whittier, from $8,499 per person — about $607 a night across 14 nights, by our own conversion, since Viking quotes days rather than nights. The two Alaska fares we published yesterday are unchanged: Alaska & the Inside Passage, 11 days, from $5,999, and North Pacific Passage, 23 days, Tokyo to Vancouver, also from $5,999.

Viking fares include a shore excursion in every port, Wi-Fi, port taxes and wine or beer with meals, so these per-night numbers aren’t comparable with the mainstream lines above. See Viking’s Alaska cruises →

6. Royal Caribbean: Fall Frenzy, and the Fares We Tracked All Week

The Fall Frenzy Sale banner is unchanged: “Up to $900 off + Up to $100 off on short getaways + 3rd and 4th guests sail free.” The interesting part is what happened to the individual fares we have been logging since Monday:

• Jewel of the Seas, 4 nights, Perfect Day at CocoCay & Bahamas, from Fort Lauderdale, October 5, 2026: from $307 (about $77 a night) — the cheapest per-night fare of the week, holding since yesterday after falling from $382 on Tuesday.
• Freedom of the Seas, 5 nights, Perfect Day at CocoCay & Bahamas, from Miami, October 17, 2026: from $349 (about $70 a night) — steady for a second day, down from $424 on Tuesday.
• Freedom of the Seas, 9 nights, Southern Caribbean, from Miami, September 24, 2026: from $672 (about $75 a night) — new on the page today, and it sails in six days.
• Icon of the Seas, 7 nights, Eastern Caribbean & Perfect Day, from Miami, October 3, 2026: from $998 (about $143 a night) — down from $1,148 on Tuesday, on the largest cruise ship in the world.
• Wonder of the Seas, 4 nights, Bahamas & Perfect Day, from Miami, October 5, 2026: from $349 (about $87 a night) — new to the page today.

Watch for: these are “starting from” fares for the cheapest cabin category, and taxes, fees and port expenses are added at checkout. See Royal Caribbean’s deals →

7. Norwegian: 50% Off With Free at Sea, and No Deadline in Sight

Norwegian has advertised 50% off all cruises, across all cabin categories every single day we have checked this week, stacked with Free at Sea — unlimited open bar, specialty dining, excursion credits at every port and a Wi-Fi package. Past guests also earn an extra Latitudes point per night on select cruises. The only dated element is Flex Pay: 0% APR over up to 12 months, book by November 4, 2026. See Norwegian’s deals →

Watch for: a permanent “50% off” is a pricing style, not an event. Judge it on the total you’d actually pay, not the percentage.

Booked Already? Ask for the New Price

A Celebrity Silhouette cabin lost $150 overnight. An Icon of the Seas fare lost $150 in three days. Anyone who booked those exact departures last week paid the old price — unless they asked.

1. Know your final payment date. Before it, most lines will reprice to a lower advertised fare. After it, your options shrink to almost nothing.
2. Compare the same cabin category. A drop on an inside cabin doesn’t move your balcony. Match the ship, sail date and cabin type exactly.
3. Screenshot the lower fare first. These pages rotate their sample sailings between loads, so capture it before you pick up the phone.
4. Ask even when the fare is flat. A new promotion — Princess’s flash sale, Royal Caribbean’s free third and fourth guests — may apply to your existing booking. Expect onboard credit rather than cash back, and nobody will apply it for you.

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Prices and offers were checked on September 18, 2026, and can change or sell out at any time. Unless noted, taxes, fees, port expenses and gratuities may be extra. Always confirm the final price on the cruise line’s website before booking. Cruise Chaos does not earn commissions on these deals.

Keep Reading

• Yesterday’s deals: Alaska and Europe From a $25 Deposit, Plus 5 Nights for $349
• Cruising on a Budget: Smart Savings Guide
• 5 Cruise Tips That Will Save Your Vacation From Chaos

Sources

• Celebrity Cruises: Cruise Deals and Last Minute Cruise Deals
• Princess Cruises: Deals & Promotions and Weekend Flash Sale
• Holland America: Cruise Deals and Save on Sunshine
• Carnival: Cruise Value Packages
• Viking: Alaska Cruises
• Royal Caribbean: Cruise Deals and Last Minute Cruise Deals
• Norwegian Cruise Line: Cruise Deals