Features
CruiseBuddy is built around the practical work of planning a cruise: the dates, bookings, documents and small notes that usually live across emails, screenshots and reminders. Here is the fuller breakdown of what you can keep together before, during and after you sail, in your browser on any device, or installed on your home screen.
Screenshots show the CruiseBuddy web app on a phone.
Pricing
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.
Everything you need to plan and run a cruise.
£0 forever
Start freeMonthly or annual
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 plansEverything in Free, plus:
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.
Overview
Start with the sailing and build out the useful details around each day, from ports and excursions to weather and reminders.
Add the cruise line, ship, sail dates, cabin and ports once. CruiseBuddy turns it into a clean, day-by-day itinerary so you can see what is happening before you are even on board.
Itinerary
Open a day from your itinerary and CruiseBuddy keeps the practical port information in one focused place: excursions, weather and marine conditions, maps, documents and reminders.
Save tour titles, providers, start and end times, meeting points, booking references, costs and notes.
See weather and sea conditions for each port close to sailing, with automatic refreshes when data is available.
View the port on a map, use saved coordinates and get better context before you step ashore.
Attach day-specific tickets, vouchers, maps, PDFs or screenshots to the port where you will need them.
Create scheduled reminders for meetups, check-in windows, payments or anything else tied to the day.
Place History Plus
CruiseBuddy builds a history of the places you have visited from your completed cruise itineraries, giving you a simple way to look back over every port and sea route you have logged.
Travel planning Plus
Cruises often come with a whole orbit of hotels, flights, parking, transfers and extras. CruiseBuddy gives those details somewhere sensible to live.
Add the travel arrangements that sit around the sailing so your hotel, flight, parking, car hire and extra bookings are visible from the same trip overview.
Save pre-cruise and post-cruise stays with addresses, providers, dates, nights, references and contact details.
Keep airline details, flight numbers, airports, terminals, passenger counts and travel times attached to the right trip.
Store parking company, location, vehicle registration, booking reference, drop-off and collection notes.
Add hire company, pickup and drop-off places, dates, driver, vehicle class and reservation notes.
Useful for transfers, packages, restaurants, lounge bookings or anything else that belongs with the cruise.
Open directions for hotels and airports from the overview when CruiseBuddy has enough location detail.
Money Plus
Track the big balance before you sail, then keep day-to-day spending in view while you are away.
Keep the financial side of the cruise visible, from what you have paid before departure to what you spend once the trip is underway.
Planner Plus
CruiseBuddy can help you plan the costs that often sit outside the headline fare, using the ship, cruise line, party size and sailing length already saved against the cruise.
Planner estimates are designed as a guide, with source prices shown in USD and converted into your selected app currency where available.
Balance tracking Plus
Cruises rarely involve a single payment. Track the deposit, interim instalments and final balance so the cost is always clear and nothing surprises you.
Spending Plus
Once the cruise starts, keep a separate view of what you are spending on board, ashore and around the trip.
Document Management Plus
Documents can be attached where they make sense, whether they belong to the whole cruise, a port day or a traveller in your party.
Save PDFs, images and other travel files so the documents you need are next to the relevant cruise detail instead of buried in email threads.
Packing lists
Build packing lists that match the way you travel, from documents and medication to formal-night outfits, pool gear and port-day essentials.
To-do lists
CruiseBuddy gives every cruise a practical to-do area for the jobs that need to happen before departure.
Add your own tasks, group them by category and tick them off as the departure date gets closer, so the important pre-cruise admin does not disappear into scattered notes.
Journal Plus
Add journal entries as the cruise unfolds, whether you want a quick note about dinner, a port-day memory or a place to keep highlights from each day.
Encrypted sharing
Travel companions may need the full plan. Family and friends may only need the broad details. CruiseBuddy supports both without sharing your account.
Send a secure traveller link with the fuller plan, or create a lighter follower link with a read-only overview and itinerary for family and friends following along from home. More on sharing
People management
People Management is its own planning area for the travellers connected to a cruise, especially when you need important details close by but protected.
Store useful traveller information for your party, encrypted like everything else, and lock the browser from Settings when you step away from a shared computer.
Ship and app
CruiseBuddy also includes ship reference details, deck plans where supported, light and dark modes, and an app you can install on your home screen straight from your browser.
Keep useful ship facts with the cruise, then use the app in the way that suits your device, privacy needs and home screen.
Browse deck plans from the cruise, deck by deck. Plans are currently published for Arvia and MSC Virtuosa.
In developmentLock CruiseBuddy from Settings on a shared computer. It also locks itself after a week without use.
Choose light, dark or system appearance from settings so the app matches how you use your device.
Add CruiseBuddy to your home screen or dock so it opens full screen and works without a signal. See how.
Open CruiseBuddy in your browser on any device, then add it to your home screen.
