Graham H

I've been cruising for over a decade — 15+ sailings across Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Norwegian, and Virgin — and for most of that time I was booking the same way everyone else does: checking a few sites, guessing whether the price looked reasonable, and hoping I didn't see a better deal two weeks later.

That frustration is what led me to build All Aboard Deals.

Before I was tracking cruise prices, I spent 10+ years in UX and web development — building tools that make complex data easier to understand and act on. When I started applying that background to cruise pricing, I realized how much signal was buried in the noise. Prices fluctuate constantly, but most cruisers have no reference point for what "good" actually looks like.

So I built one.

All Aboard Deals monitors 35,000+ sailings every week across the major cruise lines, tracking how current fares compare to their recent historical averages. The result is a Deal Score — a simple way to tell whether a price is genuinely below the norm or just marketing dressed up as a discount.

I also built Cruise Radar, a Chrome extension that overlays pricing intelligence directly on booking sites like Royal Caribbean and Carnival — so you can see deal context while you're actually shopping, not after the fact.

The goal isn't to tell you which cruise to book. It's to give you the data to make that call yourself.

Every guide on this site is informed by real pricing data, live fare checks, and historical trends — not press releases or sponsored itineraries. When I cover a ship or a sailing region, I'm cross-referencing what I've seen on board with what the numbers actually show.

I'm also still actively cruising. Testing cabins, evaluating drink packages, talking to other cruisers about what genuinely feels like value — that's ongoing, not a credential I claimed once and moved on from.