8 Best Cruises From Singapore 2026: Every Ship at Marina Bay, With Real Starting Fares

The ship most Singaporeans mean when they say "cruise", and the cheapest way to get a balcony and a buffet without flying. Genting Dream sails round trips from Marina Bay Cruise Centre all year: 2 nights to Melaka or Port Klang from S$172 a head, 3 nights to Phuket, to Penang with Port Klang, or to Penang with Melaka from S$269, and a 2-night weekend cruise that never docks anywhere from S$277, all in the 50% Off 2nd Guest deal on sailings to 31 January 2027. The 10.10 Year-End Sale adds a 5-night run down to South Bali (Benoa) and Lombok from S$750 on 8 November to 29 December 2026 sailings. It is a genuinely big ship: 150,695 gross tons, 18 decks, 1,674 staterooms and 3,352 guests at lower berth, built by Meyer Werft, with a waterslide park, a rope course and zipline, the Zodiac Theatre, Zouk and Zouk Beach Club, and Little Dreamers for the children. The Palace is a ship-within-a-ship of butler-serviced suites with its own restaurant and sun deck. The name to know: this is no longer Resorts World Cruises. The operator rebranded to StarDream Cruises and the old resortsworldcruises.com is now a parked domain listed for sale, so book at stardreamcruises.com and ignore any agent still sending you to the old address.BEST FOR: a first cruise, a long weekend, and anyone who wants the shortest possible trip that still feels like a holiday.

Disney Cruise Line's largest ship is homeported in Singapore, sailing weekly from Marina Bay Cruise Centre, and it is the only ship on this list where the vessel is the entire destination. The Disney Adventure runs 3- and 4-night itineraries that have, until now, been all at sea: no ports, no tenders, no shore excursions, just a ship with seven themed areas built around Marvel, Toy Story, Frozen and the rest. That changes at the end of the year. Disney announced on 25 August 2026 that select 4-night sailings between 31 December 2026 and May 2027 will call at Langkawi, Malaysia, on day 3, the ship's first ever port of call. The season runs continuously: the ship returns with 3- and 4-night cruises from October to December 2026 and keeps going from January through August 2027, and the same 25 August announcement extended the Singapore programme with new 3- and 4-night sailings from September to December 2027. Two things to plan around. Disney quotes inside the booking flow rather than publishing a lead-in fare, so you cannot compare it against the numbers on this page until you have picked a date, and it prices well above every other ship here. And Disney has not published the exact list of Langkawi departure dates, so if the port call is the reason you are booking, confirm the specific sailing before you pay. The one published discount right now is for bigger families: book by 20 December 2026 and a 3rd and 4th guest sharing the cabin with two full-fare guests pay half the voyage fare on select 2027 sailings.BEST FOR: families with young children, and anyone who would rather the ship were the holiday.

Royal Caribbean's Singapore season steps up in October 2026, when Navigator of the Seas sails Southeast Asia for the first time. It is the amped-up version of the ship, carrying The Blaster, billed as the longest waterslide at sea. Prices on Royal Caribbean's own Singapore site, re-checked on 17 October 2026: 3-night Penang from S$300 per person with 20 dates to choose from, 4-night Penang and Phuket from S$481 across 21 dates, 4-night Ho Chi Minh City at S$539, 4-night Port Klang and Penang at S$509, and a 5-night Penang and Phuket with an overnight from S$602. Read the dates behind those numbers, though: the S$300 is the cheapest of the 20 dates and falls on 12 July 2027, and the line's lowest Singapore fare is now a new 2-night Weekend Getaway on Navigator that calls at no port, from S$297 across 4 dates starting July 2027. Royal Caribbean is the clearest of the four operators about what the number means: its search results state "Starting price in SGD" and then list taxes, fees and port expenses as a separate line on every single sailing, so you can see the real total before you click: about S$90 on that cheapest 3-night Penang date. Royal Caribbean runs its Singapore offers as short flash sales that replace each other every few days: the current Instant Savings round (bookings 15 to 19 October 2026) gives up to S$1,050 off, and 3rd and 4th guests sail free on sailings from Singapore, so check the cruise-deals page for whichever round is live when you book.BEST FOR: the widest choice of dates, and the most transparent pricing on this list.

The second StarDream ship, and where the genuinely low numbers live. In the Star Voyager Year End Sale, covering sailings from 20 November 2026 to 5 January 2027, a 1-night Singapore to Port Klang crossing starts at S$49 per person and the reverse leg is the same price. Round trips from Singapore cost more but are still the cheapest multi-night fares here after Genting Dream: 2 nights to Melaka or to Port Klang from S$269, 2 nights to Pulau Pangkor from S$329, 3 nights to Pulau Pangkor and Penang from S$369, and 4 nights to Langkawi, Pulau Pangkor and Port Klang from S$549. Sooner sailings are cheaper still: a Flash Sale on Star Voyager departures from 18 to 31 October 2026 brings a 1-night round-trip cruise to nowhere down to S$70, the 2-night Melaka round trip to S$140, and 3 nights to Phuket, or to Melaka with Penang, to S$240. Star Voyager is the smaller of the two ships at 77,441 gross tons, 14 decks, 972 staterooms and 1,944 guests at lower berth, built by Fincantieri, with a waterslide, the Zodiac Theatre, Symphony Spa and its own Palace suite area. Read the S$49 carefully before you get excited: it is a one-way sailing, so you disembark at Port Klang and have to get yourself back from Malaysia, which is a coach or a flight you are paying for separately. As a novelty overnight it is unbeatable value; as a holiday it is half a trip.BEST FOR: a cheap overnight, a one-way novelty, and small-ship cruisers who find Genting Dream too busy.

If the two-night hop to Melaka is not what you had in mind, this is the ship that turns a Singapore departure into a real Southeast Asia itinerary. Diamond Princess repositions to Singapore for the 2026-27 season and runs 11 cruises from here between November 2026 and March 2027, bookended by repositioning sailings between Singapore and Japan. The pricing on Princess's Singapore site, re-checked on 17 October 2026, is the most aggressive on this page in absolute terms: a 12-day Malaysia and Thailand cruise, round trip from Singapore across 6 ports on 2 January 2027, is S$1,465 per person in an interior, cut from S$2,809, with taxes, fees and port expenses of S$218 on top. The 10-day Vietnam cruise with Halong Bay on 9 December 2026 has sold out of interiors; balconies are left from S$2,562 (was S$3,186), plus S$141. Book a year out and the same 12-day loop on 11 December 2027 is S$1,054 (was S$4,306), plus S$244. The 14-day Southeast Asia loop with Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam over 7 ports on 19 December 2026 is S$2,558 from S$3,826, plus S$231. There are 37 sailings from Singapore in the search results, so the dates go well beyond this winter. The ship carries 2,670 guests, which makes it mid-sized by current standards and a good deal calmer than Genting Dream.BEST FOR: people who want the cruise to actually go somewhere, and who have a week or two rather than a weekend.

The ship people book for one specific reason: North Star, the glass capsule on a crane arm that lifts you 300 feet above the deck for a 360-degree view, which is a very different photograph off Penang or Phuket than it is off Florida. Quantum of the Seas is a Quantum-class ship and the more modern of Royal Caribbean's two Singapore regulars, with RipCord by iFLY skydiving, SeaPlex and the Two70 lounge. Its Singapore fares sit above Navigator for the same route: 3-night Penang from S$337 per person across 10 dates, 4-night Penang and Phuket from S$484 across 14 dates, and a 5-night Penang and Phuket with an overnight from S$613 across 5 dates. The 4-night is now the cheapest way to test whether the newer ship is worth it to you: S$484 against Navigator's S$481, just S$3 apart, though Quantum's cheapest 4-night date is 17 January 2028. On the 3-night the gap is S$37, and the S$337 date is 1 November 2027, with about S$82 of taxes, fees and port expenses on top. On deployment, read the small print: Royal Caribbean's own schedule page lists Quantum for the winter 2027-28 Singapore season while Navigator covers winter 2026-27, but Quantum sailings from Singapore are already on sale with dates in between, so go by the sailing date in the search results rather than by the season label.BEST FOR: the view, the newer hardware, and anyone who has already done Navigator.

Diamond Princess's sister ship, and the second half of the Princess pair homeported in Singapore for the 2026-27 season. She takes the itinerary most people picture when they think of a proper Asian cruise: 14 days round trip from Singapore across 8 ports in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia, departing 6 February 2027 over Chinese New Year, at S$3,531 per person in an interior, with S$269 of taxes, fees and port expenses on top. Her Christmas-week departures on 26 December 2026 have sold out, so the cheaper fortnight this winter is the 19 December Diamond Princess sailing at S$2,558, which costs S$973 a head less for the same length at sea. Same size as her sister at 2,670 guests, same Princess formula: quieter public rooms, a stronger main dining room, and none of the waterslide-and-nightclub energy of the StarDream ships.BEST FOR: a Chinese New Year fortnight away, and travellers who want a proper multi-country itinerary without flying to the start line.

The outlier on this list, and worth knowing about precisely because almost nobody sells it as a holiday. Voyager of the Seas runs a 5-night Singapore to Hong Kong sailing from S$638 per person, and there is exactly one date for it in Royal Caribbean's Singapore search results, 21 January 2028, calling at Ho Chi Minh City on the way, which is what a repositioning sailing looks like. The maths is the appeal: five nights of accommodation, food and entertainment plus the transport to Hong Kong for roughly what a decent hotel week costs, if you were going to Hong Kong anyway. The maths is also the catch: you need a one-way flight home at the end, and a late-January fare from Hong Kong back to Singapore can wipe out the saving on its own, so price the flight before you price the cabin. Voyager is a Voyager-class ship, older than Quantum but comfortably big, with a rock-climbing wall and the Royal Promenade running through the middle of the ship.BEST FOR: anyone with a reason to be in Hong Kong, and cruisers who would rather sail somewhere than sail in a loop.