How much do cruise ships make per trip?

i DO NOT want to know how much it cost to go on a cruise


i DO want to know how much the actual cruise ships make per trip or year

espically ships like the oasis of the sea






Answer :
There is no way anyone could tell you that. After all, some cruise ships hold 1000 passengers and some hold 5000. Some are twice as long as others and weigh a lot more. Some ships sail different itineraries. Some are much longer (like 2-3 weeks) and some are 3-4 days. Some ships sell more alcohol than other ships. Older ships are less fuel efficient. If you think about it, your cars gas mileage changes with each 100 lbs added. On a cruise ship that could easily be a difference of 5 million lbs from week to week if each person weighs 100 lbs more than the passenger the week before. Even the number of paying passengers can vary by about 1,000 depending on how many kids are on board. The price people are paying varies week to week and if everyone pays $200 less than the last cruise, that varies by 1 million. Fuel costs can double from one week to the next which just caused Royal to go through a $125 million restructuring plan.

There are little factors like how active the casino is that week as well as the casino and the alcohol are the two areas the ship makes their profit for the week. Some weeks the spa doesn't turn a profit. The casino and shops are both closed while you are at port. When you leave a port earlier (lets say 3pn instead of 8pm) that gives both more time to make that money.

Royal's overhead is much higher than Carnival's. Net income for the second quarter this year fell to $84.4m compared with $128.7m a year ago. That's 3 million a week change. If we just average the 2 of those (very unscientifically), that would give us a net income of $426 million a year.

So basically cruise ships are talking a variation of 10 million each week. What's a million here or a million there. Then of course a more luxurious line than Royal Caribbean would be charging more, sailing longer, and having more expensive decor and food brought in each week.

There is no way anyone could have that kind of information. I watched a show on the travel channel with a Norwegian cruise and they wouldn't even tell the producers the operating budget for the cruise for that one trip. What I can tell you is they spent 1.4 billion on the Oasis, that it has penthouses that cost as much as $34,000 a week. I can also tell you a Mediterranean cruise costs about 2-3 times what a Caribbean cruise does for the same 7 days. Repositioning cruises rarely sail with more than 60% occupancy so you want to do that as rarely as possible. I can also tell you that according to the Travel Channel's Norwegian trip, the cruise ship industry usually does not turn a profit until the beginning of the 6th day on a 7 day sailing. At that point it makes profit quicker though as the ship weighs a lot less than it did when it started (less food, less fuel).

I hope this helps you somewhat.






Answer :
Tropics answer is wrong. Most cruise lines are publicly traded and release financial reports all the time. Follow the link and you can pour thru Carnival's financial statements for hours. Most others, like Royal Caribbean and NCL are available as well.

Of course, it's going to vary by ship and sailing and no two will be the same. But it would be pretty easy to figure an average.

Good luck.






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Depends on many factors from capacity to sales on the ship to excursions. If no one ever bought anything on the ship or through the sip they would lost a ton of money.

The biggest factor to put them well over the top is alcohol sales.

If a ship is at 92% capacity and people spend in an 'average way', they just make a profit.






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The only way you will get that information with any degree of reliability is from the cruise companies, and that information is not released except to their shareholders, accountants, and the tax authorities.