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) is oriented around: Welcome to /r/Cruise! This is a place to talk about your upcoming cruise, your cruise experience, and excursions. Recent activity samples show 20 posts/day in recent samples (~78% text, ~8% link, ~7% image). Public rules we collected 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; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Question, News, Photo.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Sep 8, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 900 subscribers (+0.06%). 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 2, 2026, r/Cruise went up from 1,545,802 to 1,550,270 subscribers (+4.5K, +0.29%). That is about 102 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
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 1,550,270 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #683 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 4,468 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 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.
Which communities are like r/Cruise?
Communities with similar topics include r/GTA6 (1.7M), r/TheLastAirbender (2.3M), r/Meditation (3.6M), r/AskMen (7.4M) and r/boxoffice (1.2M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). 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.