Find and Add a Cruise

You do not need a booking confirmation in hand to add a cruise. JourneyFuse keeps a searchable catalog of real sailings — tens of thousands of departures across every major cruise line, refreshed automatically — so you can look one up by line, ship, and month and pull the whole thing onto a trip. The day-by-day port schedule comes with it.

Two ways to add a cruise, depending on what you have:

• Browse Cruises — you know the ship and roughly when it sails, but don't have paperwork yet (quoting a client, showing options, planning ahead). Search the catalog and pick the sailing.
• Import Cruise — you already have a confirmation. Paste it (or use AI Import) and we pull the cabin, dates, pricing, and confirmation number off the document.

Both land in the same place: a real cruise booking on the trip, with the itinerary built out.

Browse the Sailing Catalog

You can start a cruise search from a few spots, whichever you're already in:

• On a trip → Bookings tab — click Browse Cruises. On a trip that already has bookings, it's in the ⋯ / Add menu as Browse Cruises.
• In the Itinerary builder — click the Cruises button (the ship icon) in the toolbar.

Then:

1. Filter by cruise line, ship, and month. Results are real, upcoming sailings from our catalog.
2. Pick the sailing that matches your client's plans.
3. Review the details and Save.

That's it. The cruise is added to the trip as a booking, and its day-by-day port schedule (each port with arrival and departure times, plus sea days, embarkation, and disembarkation) populates the itinerary automatically.

What Comes With It

Once the sailing is on the trip:

• Port-by-port itinerary — the full sailing built out day by day, no typing.
• Ship profile — the ship's overview, stateroom categories, dining, and onboard activities appear on the itinerary and the public proposal page. See Cruise Ship Profiles.
• Command Center — for the major lines (Royal Caribbean, Disney Cruise, and more), the trip's Command Center fills in with planning milestones and countdowns once the cruise booking is on the trip.

You can add cabin details, pricing, and travelers at any point after — Browse Cruises gets the sailing and its itinerary in first, and the rest fills in as the booking firms up.

Typing a Cruise in by Hand

Adding the booking yourself with New booking → Add manually → Cruise? The Embarkation Port and Disembarkation Port boxes suggest real departure ports as you type, busiest first. Type a few letters ("port can", "galv"), then click the port or arrow down to it and press Enter.

Picking from the list keeps one port spelled one way across all your bookings, so "Port Canaveral, Florida" doesn't turn into five different spellings. A port that isn't on the list still works: type it and choose Use "…" (or press Enter while that row is highlighted).

Already Have a Confirmation? Use Import Cruise

If the client is booked and you have the confirmation, skip the search:

1. On the Bookings tab, click Import Cruise (or ⋯ → Import Cruise).
2. Paste Confirmation — drop in the confirmation email or itinerary text and JourneyFuse extracts the line, ship, dates, cabin, dining, pricing, and confirmation number.
3. Review and Save.

The AI Import Booking button handles this too, alongside flights, hotels, and everything else, when you're importing a mix of documents at once.

Cruisetours (Land + Sea)

A cruisetour, like a Princess Denali tour, Holland America's Land+Sea Journeys or NCL's Denali by Rail, is a land program sold together with a sailing. Our catalog holds the ship part only. The land days are added for you in one of two ways.

From a confirmation (best). Import the cruisetour confirmation with AI Import. JourneyFuse reads the ship days and the land days off the document:

• The booking covers the whole tour, from the first land day to disembarkation.
• Each land day is named for where your clients are that night, with the lodge and the day's tours, coach and rail legs. For example: Denali · Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge, with "Tundra Wilderness Tour" underneath.
• The ship days are matched to the sailing that sits between the land days, so a sailing the same ship makes on the first land day never ends up on your clients' Denali days.

From the catalog, before you have paperwork. In the itinerary, click Cruises. Under Booking a cruisetour? click Add land nights, and choose how many nights the land tour runs before or after the cruise. Then pick the sailing. You get a labeled day for each land night, ready for you to fill in the lodge and touring.

Once you've built a cruisetour you'll sell again, ⋯ → Save full itinerary as template lets you reuse it on the next trip.

The Line Changed the Itinerary — Fix the Port Schedule

Cruise lines re-route published sailings, sometimes many months ahead: a port gets dropped, another gets added, a call becomes a sea day. Our catalog is refreshed automatically but it is a mirror of third-party sailing data, so a schedule change can reach you before it reaches us — and you're the one who spoke to the line.

On a cruise proposal option linked to a catalog sailing, the option editor has a Port schedule panel under the ship card:

1. Open the proposal option and find Port schedule → Change itinerary.
2. The day-by-day loads pre-filled with what we hold, so correcting two ports doesn't mean retyping the other nine.
3. Edit any day — change the port name, adjust the date, set arrival and departure times, or clear the port to make it a sea day. Add day and the trash icon handle days the line added or removed.
4. Save port schedule.

What that does:

• Your itinerary becomes what the client sees — on the proposal card, the itinerary preview, and the day-by-day list in the option description, which is rewritten to match so the proposal never shows two different itineraries at once.
• It sticks. The correction survives our catalog refreshing; we won't overwrite your version with ours.
• An Edited badge marks the option so you can tell at a glance that the schedule is yours, not ours.
• Changed your mind, or the line reverted? Use our data again drops your version and goes back to the catalog.

Single-cruise group bookings have the same editor, in Group booking settings under the selected cruise.

Two related notes:

• Switching sailings clears the correction. A corrected schedule belongs to the voyage it was written for, so picking a different sailing starts fresh rather than carrying the old ports over.
• Also fix the booking's Ports of Call. The proposal override covers what the client sees on the proposal. Once the cruise is a booking on the trip, its day-by-day lives in Command Center → Ports of Call, which drives the trip itinerary — edit it there too so the itinerary and the proposal agree.

Port Photos on the Day-by-Day

Each port day picks up a photo of the port from our port library, so a cruise itinerary looks finished without you hunting for pictures. Sea days never show one.

Choose how photos show on a proposal. In the proposal editor, under the options, How your client sees it → Day photos has three settings (in the classic editor it sits under the layout picker):

• Large (the default): the whole photo under each day's description.
• Small: a thumbnail beside the description, for a shorter page.
• Off: no photos on the days. The day-by-day reads as text only.

Click Use for my new proposals to start every proposal you create with the same choice. It is your own default and does not change anyone else's proposals.

Change or hide one day's photo. In the trip's itinerary, hover the photo on a port day and click the ⋯ button:

• Change or reframe photo opens the photo editor. Upload your own picture, or use Adjust crop to keep the subject in frame on phones.
• Hide photo on this day removes it for your client. The day shows Photo hidden · Show in the editor so you can bring it back.

Your choices stay on this trip. The library photo other agencies see does not change.

Good to Know

• The catalog is for the itinerary, not live pricing. Browse Cruises gives you the sailing and its ports. For pricing, add it from the confirmation, or set up a price watch to track a fare over time.
• A cruise is a booking, not a separate object. However you add it (browse or import), it lives on the trip as a booking and flows into invoices, the itinerary, and the proposal like any other.
• Not every line is in the catalog for every date. Coverage is broad but not exhaustive. If a specific sailing isn't showing, add it with New Booking or Import Cruise and the ship profile still builds from the ship name.

Related

• Command Centers — the Ports of Call, Excursions & Onboard, and Dining tabs on a cruise booking
• Cruise Ship Profiles
• Group Bookings — for group cruises with a shareable booking page