ESTIMATED GRATUITIES
USD 252.00Base gratuities reference total
2 charged guests · 0 exempt guests · 7 cruise nights
2 charged guests: 2 adults, 0 children (0 charged). 0 exempt guests.
Per charged guest/day: USD 18.00 · Per charged guest/trip: USD 126.00
Cabin daily: USD 36.00 · Cabin trip: USD 252.00
User-entered rules: adults charged yes, children charged yes, minimum child age 0. Exempt guests have zero base charge.
Custom rate — unverified; no official rate or automatic-charge policy asserted.
Prepay vs onboard: the same estimated reference base, USD 252.00, for either method. No discount, future increase or refund is inferred. An existing prepaid quote can differ; use its custom rate.
Cruise gratuity/service-charge policies can change and may vary by cabin, guest age, fare, market, sailing date, and cruise line. Verify important charges with the cruise line before sailing.
All amounts use one currency. No conversion, live rate requests, accounts or saved inputs. Extra tips are optional. Crew distribution is outside this estimate.
Cruiseline Tipping Gratuity Accumulator Cruise line: Custom rate — unverified, user entered Cruise nights: 7; planning convention: daily rate × nights Policy scope confirmed: false Currency: USD; no FX conversion Cabin 1: Custom cabin Adults: 2; children: 0; ages at boarding: not required Adults charged: true; children charged: true; minimum child age: 0 Charged guests: 2; exempt guests: 0 Daily rate: USD 18.00; per charged guest trip: USD 126.00; cabin daily: USD 36.00; cabin trip: USD 252.00 Custom rate — unverified. User-entered charging rules. Base gratuities reference total: USD 252.00 Included/prepaid: no; reference covered amount: USD 0.00; remaining base: USD 252.00 Prepay and onboard use the same current reference estimate; no savings or refund inferred. Optional extras: USD 0.00 Estimated full tipping budget: USD 252.00 Remaining tipping budget: USD 252.00 Approximate gratuity/tipping budget per cruise night: USD 36.00 Per payer: USD 252.00; 1 equal payers; split applies to full budget including covered reference base Cruise gratuity/service-charge policies can change and may vary by cabin, guest age, fare, market, sailing date, and cruise line. Verify important charges with the cruise line before sailing.
Estimate cruise gratuities/service charges using verified daily rates, guest counts, cabin type, cruise nights and optional extra tips.
Choose a cruise line or Custom rate, enter nights and each cabin’s guests, then choose a verified category. Confirm the policy scope for your booking. Add child ages only where the rule needs them. Optionally enter extras and payers, then calculate, copy or print the estimate. Reset restores the generic custom example.
Daily gratuities or service charges support onboard service teams. The selected cruise line’s official terminology remains visible. Additional purchase-level charges and personal cash tips are separate. No exact crew allocation is inferred.
Base gratuity total = daily rate × cruise nights × charged guests. Nights are a planning convention, not an assertion about embarkation or disembarkation billing. The engine keeps full precision until display.
Per charged guest trip = daily rate × nights. Cabin daily = sum of charged guest rates. Cabin trip = cabin daily × nights. Trip base = sum of active cabin totals; exempt guests contribute zero.
Adults are entered separately from children aged 0–17. Age-dependent rules request completed age at boarding for every child. Missing ages fail closed. Carnival’s official rule charges age 2 and older; Norwegian’s charges age 3 and older. Custom age rules are explicitly unverified assumptions.
Stored categories follow official wording. Royal Caribbean distinguishes any suite from other categories; Norwegian distinguishes The Haven and Suites from Club Balcony Suite and below. Other unsupported or conditional cabins require a custom rate.
Fully included or already fully prepaid applies to every active cabin. The published-rate reference base remains visible, while covered reference base equals the base and remaining base equals zero. Extras remain separately payable. The estimate does not claim a refund or savings.
Optional extras use your own amounts only. Once multiplies by 1; per day multiplies by cruise nights; per guest multiplies by all guests; per charged guest multiplies by charged guests. These frequencies are not compounded. Optional cash tips are optional, and no purchase percentages are inferred.
Full tipping budget = base reference gratuities + optional extras. Equal share = full budget ÷ payers. Approximate per-payer labeling appears when cents cannot divide evenly. Approximate budget per cruise night = full budget ÷ nights. Remaining budget is displayed separately.
Stored sources were verified October 7, 2026. Verification is a dated snapshot, not a live guarantee. Each rule records its rate, currency, cabin scope, guest rule, automatic-charge behavior, official URL and date. Current reference rates never infer a future increase or grandfathered prepaid price.
Policies vary by cabin, age, fare, market, sailing and booking date. Norwegian records are limited to bookings from January 1, 2023 and exclude Hawaii tax cases. Princess USD records exclude AUD sailings. Check source terms and use Custom rate for unsupported cases.
All examples below use generic engine fixtures, not attributed cruise-line rates.
2 charged guests × USD 18/day × 7 nights = USD 252.00 base; per charged guest USD 126.00; cabin daily USD 36.00.
4 charged guests × USD 18/day × 7 nights = USD 504.00 base; per charged guest USD 126.00; cabin daily USD 72.00.
2 charged guests × USD 18/day × 7 nights = USD 252.00 base; per charged guest USD 126.00; cabin daily USD 36.00.
2 charged guests × USD 21/day × 7 nights = USD 294.00 base; per charged guest USD 147.00; cabin daily USD 42.00.
Generic standard USD 18 gives USD 252; generic suite USD 21 gives USD 294 with the same two guests and seven nights.
2 charged guests × USD 18/day × 7 nights = USD 252.00 base; per charged guest USD 126.00; cabin daily USD 36.00.
Optional cash tips USD 50 produce full budget USD 302.00; two payers share USD 151.00 each.
Cruise gratuity/service-charge policies can change and may vary by cabin, guest age, fare, market, sailing date, and cruise line. Verify important charges with the cruise line before sailing.
One currency only; no FX conversion. Rates use daily × nights as a planning convention. Custom rates and charging rules are unverified user assumptions. Up to five cabins, 100 adults and 100 children per cabin, 365 nights, 20 extras and 20 payers. Included/prepaid means the full base for all active cabins is covered. No future rates, sailing-date prediction, partial prepayment, custom guest assignment or live account integration is modeled.
Multiply the daily rate by charged guests and cruise nights. Nights are a planning convention; check the actual billed duration.
Published rates here are per charged guest per day. The cabin total adds those guests across the cruise.
Use the selected official rule. Carnival excludes under-2s and Norwegian excludes under-3s. Other stored per-guest policies state no age exemption. Verify special arrangements.
Only sourced categories receive different rates. Unsupported cabins require verification or a custom rate.
The stored policies describe automatic posting when not covered or prepaid. This does not mean every fare, market or booking is included in the policy scope.
This calculator uses the same current reference estimate for both. It does not infer savings; older quotes or booking-specific prices require a custom rate.
No purchase-level tip percentages are added. Enter any extra tip or service-charge amounts you expect separately in the same currency.
Yes. Add an Optional cash tips item and choose its frequency. It is not presented as a required charge.
Choose 1–20 payers for an equal share of the full tipping budget. Covered reference base stays in that full-budget split; remaining budget is shown separately.
Every stored rule was checked against an official source on October 7, 2026. Policies can change; check the source before sailing.
Official cruise-line guidance only; no endorsement is implied. Verified October 7, 2026.
Royal Caribbean — Service gratuities (opens in a new tab). USD policy; excludes prohibited markets and group-specific or included-fare arrangements.
Carnival Cruise Line — Gratuity for Team Members (opens in a new tab). USD guideline; not an Australia-market policy. Children under 2 are exempt.
Norwegian Cruise Line — Onboard service charge (opens in a new tab). Bookings on or after January 1, 2023 only. Hawaii sailings excluded because additional tax applies.
Princess Cruises — Crew Appreciation (opens in a new tab). USD shipboard policy only; AUD sailings excluded. Included packages must be marked separately. Pre-cruise FAQ explicitly includes children.
Celebrity Cruises — Gratuities (opens in a new tab). USD policy; excludes prohibited markets, group-specific arrangements and older prepaid quotes. Current reference rate does not imply a prepay discount.
Princess pre-cruise age applicability (opens in a new tab)
Norwegian automatic service-charge guidance (opens in a new tab)