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
Here is what it does not change:
- Sailings are ordered by departure date, never by what pays best.
- No cruise line pays for placement.
- Prices shown are the starting fares we recorded, with the date we recorded them. They are not marked up.
One thing it does change, and you should know it. The schedule covers the cruises Cruisebound sells from New Orleans. American Cruise Lines also runs Mississippi river cruises from here, and Cruisebound doesn't sell them, so they are not listed. The about page explains what is covered and where to find the rest.
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, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Viking 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.
The promotions on cruise line pages are Cruisebound's, not ours. We list what it advertises and when it says an offer ends, both from its own feed, last confirmed on 2026-10-23. We have not checked that a particular discount applies to a particular $New Orleans sailing, because that depends on the cabin, the date and how many of you are travelling. 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. Each 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.
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
NewOrleansCruiseSchedule is not affiliated with the Port of New Orleans or with any cruise line. See about this site for how the schedule is compiled and verified.
