For cruise passengers

Your whole cruise, in one place. On every device.

Stop digging through emails for the booking reference. CruiseBuddy keeps your itinerary, excursions, payments, documents and packing together, on your phone at the port and your laptop at home.

Free plan, no card. Two upcoming cruises, on every device you use.

How it works

Six places to look. One cruise plan.

A cruise arrives in pieces, weeks apart and in different inboxes. CruiseBuddy is the one place they all end up, ready when you need them.

Where it lives today

  • Booking confirmationEmail
  • E-tickets and luggage labelsDownloads
  • Excursion vouchersAnother email
  • Flights and the hotelAirline app
  • Balance due dateCalendar
  • Packing listNotes app

CruiseBuddy

Northern Lights Explorer · Britannia

  • ItinerarySouthampton to the Norwegian fjords, 12 nights
  • Olden, NorwayBriksdal glacier trip · meet 08:15
  • Balance£2,074.50 left to pay, due 18 July
  • DocumentsTickets, insurance and passports, offline

Where you need it

  • On your phoneAt the port, even offline
  • On your laptopPlanning at home
  • With who is travellingAn encrypted link

Plan it

Every port day, planned before you board.

Add the ship and dates and CruiseBuddy lays out the cruise day by day, with a route map and arrival and departure times for each port. Book an excursion and it sits on the day it happens, with its voucher and meeting time.

  • Day-by-day itinerary with a route map
  • Excursions, vouchers and meeting points on the right day
  • Packing lists and a pre-cruise to-do list
  • Reminders, so nothing sneaks up before sailing
CruiseBuddy itinerary with a route map of a Norwegian cruise and a list of port days

Keep track Plus

Know what is paid, what is due and where the tickets are.

See the balance left to pay and when it is due, log what you spend on board, and keep passports, tickets and insurance with the cruise they belong to, available offline when the ship’s Wi-Fi is not.

  • Balance, deposit and payment dates
  • Onboard spending as you go
  • Travel documents for everyone in your party
  • Flights, hotels, parking and car hire, with live flight status
CruiseBuddy money section showing the balance left to pay, the amount paid and the payments made

Share it

Everyone travelling, on the same page.

Send the people travelling with you the whole plan, or give family at home a read-only view of where you will be each day. Links are encrypted on your device and expire on their own.

  • A traveller link with the plan, lists and bookings
  • A follower link for family at home
  • Documents, photos and medical details are never shared

How encrypted sharing works

CruiseBuddy sharing section offering a traveller link and a follower link

Private by design

We store your plans. We cannot read them.

Your cruise is encrypted in your browser or on your phone before it syncs, with a key only you hold. That is why you get a recovery code when you start, and why we could not look through your passport details even if we wanted to.

Read the privacy policy

  • End-to-end encrypted sync between your devices
  • No adverts, no tracking, no selling your data
  • Sign in with your email, with no password to leak
  • Delete your account and everything in it, any time

Pricing

Free to plan. Subscribe for Plus.

The free plan does the planning itself, for as long as you like. Plus adds your money, documents, travel and memories with a monthly or annual subscription covering every cruise on your account, on every device.

Free

Everything you need to plan and run a cruise.

£0 forever

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  • Day-by-day itinerary, ports and excursions
  • Packing lists and pre-cruise to-do lists
  • The people you are travelling with
  • Port guides, ship facts and cruise tips
  • Notes and reminders
  • Encrypted cruise sharing
  • Sync across all your devices
  • Two upcoming cruises at a time

Monthly or annual

Cruise Buddy Plus

Your money, your documents, your travel and your memories.

See current monthly and annual prices in the app.

Renews automatically. Cancel before your next renewal; Plus stays active through the period you have paid for. Applicable tax and local currency totals are shown at checkout.

See Plus plans

Everything in Free, plus:

  • Budget, balance tracking and onboard spending
  • Travel documents: passports, tickets and insurance
  • Cruise journal with photos
  • Places: a map and poster of every port you have visited
  • Hotels, flights, parking and car hire, with live flight status
  • Weather and sea conditions for every port
  • Deck plans, and Wi-Fi, drinks and gratuity planners
  • Documents and photos synced to every device
  • Unlimited cruises

No card needed to start. Anything you save is yours: if Plus ever lapses you can still read and remove everything, and only adding more is paused. Booked through a travel agent? Plus may already be included with your cruise. Existing lifetime Plus purchases keep their access.

Without it

The cruise lives everywhere and nowhere.

  • A booking email you search for every time
  • A PDF of tickets somewhere in Downloads
  • An excursion voucher in a different inbox
  • A balance date you hope you remembered
  • A packing list on the back of an envelope

With CruiseBuddy

One plan, on every device.

  • Everything for the cruise, in one place
  • On your phone at the port, even without a signal
  • Shared with the people travelling with you
  • Ready long before you board

FAQ

Questions, answered

Do I need to download anything?

No. CruiseBuddy runs in your web browser at app.cruise-buddy.app, on any phone, tablet or computer. Add it to your home screen and it opens full screen, like any other app.

How much does it cost?

CruiseBuddy is free for planning your cruise, for two upcoming cruises at a time. Cruise Buddy Plus offers monthly and annual subscriptions. See current prices in the app. Plus covers every cruise on your account on every device while your subscription is active.

Does it work at sea without a signal?

Yes. Your cruise is kept on each device you use, so it opens without a connection. Install it on your home screen and open your cruise once before you sail. Changes sync when you are back online.

Who can see my cruise plans?

Only you, and anyone you share a cruise with. Your plans are encrypted on your device before they sync, so we store them without being able to read them. The exceptions are each cruise’s ship, cruise line and dates, which we need to run your account.

Does it work with my cruise line?

Yes. CruiseBuddy works with any cruise line and any booking. You add the ship, dates, ports and booking details yourself, and P&O Cruises itineraries can be looked up for you.

Does it work on Android and on my computer?

Yes. CruiseBuddy works on iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, and Mac, Windows or Linux computers. Sign in on each one and your cruises are there.

More in the support FAQ, or see every feature.

Your next cruise, sorted before you board.

Free to start, no card needed. Add your cruise in a couple of minutes, then take it with you on every device.