About r/Cruise
In its own words:
Welcome to /r/Cruise! This is a place to talk about your upcoming cruise, your cruise experience, and excursions.
Community guide
r/Cruise (#683, about 1.6 million subscribers) — This is a place to talk about your upcoming cruise, your cruise experience, and excursions. A recent sample averaged 20 posts a day (~78% text, ~8% link, ~7% image). Its public rules include: Civility and respect; Roll Calls; Spam; Check The Wiki; "Can I bring my weed?".
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own channel or shop. Civility/anti-harassment rules apply; personal attacks get removed.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: Question, News, Photo.
The community was created on Sep 8, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 598 subscribers (+0.04%). It sits just behind r/argentina (#682) and ahead of r/Dogtraining (#684) in our ranking.
What sets r/Cruise apart
Compared with other large communities, r/Cruise leans heavily on text posts (78% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 35%).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/Cruise went up from 1,545,802 to 1,550,868 subscribers (+5.1K, +0.33%). That is about 99 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/Cruise this week
This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 7, 2026).
- I worked as a cruise ship bartender for years. The working conditions were bad, but the passengers were what finally made me quitu/seetheworldbyseaa · Nov 6 · text post
- Out of all the cruise "tips" #1 is.. arrive day before. Do you agree?u/411on215 · Nov 5 · text post
- MSC Poesia detained, what happened.u/ArchiveDiver-62 · Nov 5 · image
- "Retired Teacher Who Paid $200,000 to Live on ‘Never-Ending’ Cruise Reveals Woes on the Ship Before Passengers Were Stranded." It seems that passengers are finally starting to admit that there were p…u/OlderCyberWiser · Nov 1 · text post
- U.S. cruise ship leaves Cambodia with no passengers after abruptly forcing everyone to disembarku/radbu107 · Nov 4 · link
- MSC Poesia Detained in Miami by US Coast Guardu/nomnomsquirrel · Nov 3 · link
- Emerald Princess fails CDC Health Inspectionu/IrishDudeWest · Nov 2 · text post
- Villa Vie Odyssey is on the move from the Cambodia dock.u/OlderCyberWiser · Nov 3 · image
- Drink package exemption form for Royal Caribbeanu/Scubbbba · Nov 1 · text post
- Cruise Ducksu/Nurse_Princess · Nov 7 · image
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/Cruise, from 2023 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- If you do this on a cruise you are the trashiest of the trashu/STICH666 · Feb 15, 2026 · image
- RCI Cruise overbooked bumped when arrived to port.u/AnimatorFun7470 · Nov 28, 2023 · image
- Housekeeping left us a towel elephant. I replied with towel monkey. They replied with towel puppy. I left them with Dave.u/Wide_Comment3081 · Feb 6, 2025 · image
- They were jealous of himu/MrSoloDolo9490 · Apr 7, 2026 · image
- Pissed and Shockedu/Heretohavesomefunplz · Dec 16, 2023 · image
- How to get ready for your next cruise!u/PeacefulCW · Sep 5, 2026 · image
- Thoughts 👀👀👀u/MrSoloDolo9490 · Mar 19, 2026 · image
- Cruise passengers were told to draw curtains and turn off lights as they passed through a pirate hot spotu/METALLIFE0917 · Mar 20, 2025 · link
- On my first cruise for my 35TH birthday today!!!u/Otherwise-Emotion575 · May 11, 2025 · image
- US Coast Guard and Citizen Detained by ICE on Carnivalu/Imaginary-Twist9039 · Jan 8, 2026 · gallery
What r/Cruise talks about
Looking at the titles of 147 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “royal”, “msc”, “cruises”, “caribbean” and “ship”. Other frequent themes are villa, carnival, port, vie, odyssey and cruising. Recurring phrases include “villa vie”, “royal caribbean”, “vie odyssey” and “drink package”. By format, 78% are text posts, 8% are links and 7% are images.
Popular post flairs: Question (37), News (8), Photo (7).
Activity and best time to post
r/Cruise gets about 20 new posts a day. The public archive holds 82,514 posts and 1,544,167 comments in total, about 18.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (27 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (16). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 06:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Cruise
The moderators of r/Cruise list 12 rules. In short:
- Civility and respect
- Roll Calls
- Spam
- Check The Wiki
- "Can I bring my weed?"
- Personal Photos
- Discussion of Sexual Content
- Misinformed
- Political Discussion
- How to break Cruiseline rules
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Cruise and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/Cruise have?
r/Cruise has 1,550,868 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #683 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 5,066 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/Cruise?
r/Cruise was created on Sep 8, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Feb 13, 2009.
How active is r/Cruise?
Moderately: r/Cruise gets about 20 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 82,514 posts and 1,544,167 comments. In a sample of 147 recent posts we counted 133 different authors.
When is r/Cruise most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 06:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/Cruise about?
The community describes itself as: “Welcome to /r/Cruise! This is a place to talk about your upcoming cruise, your cruise experience, and excursions.” Recent post titles often mention royal, msc, cruises, caribbean and ship. Most posts are text posts (78%).
Is r/Cruise safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Cruise as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/Cruise?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Cruise accepts both text and link posts, with images, galleries and polls enabled. It has 12 posted rules, starting with: “Civility and respect”; “Roll Calls”; “Spam”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Cruise.