If you need a gift for the avid cruiser, here is the Cruise Gift Guide, to make your life easier to find a gift for them.
I have taken the hard work out of it and shortened my list of 50 cruise gifts to the top 10 best cruise gift ideas for your friends and family.
This cruise gift guide will give you quick and easy options without reading through a long list, so let’s begin.
Additionally, if you would like more cruise gift ideas head over to the longer gift list: 50 Useful Gifts for the Cruise Traveler or Best Cruise Accessories to Add to Your Packing List.
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1. Custom Cruise Map
A Custom Cruise Map is a unique cruise gift for someone who loves cruises as it will capture an actual cruise they went on.
These cruise maps show the itinerary with any diversions and are completely custom-made for your friends or family member’s cruise.
They use museum-quality paper, and they are framed beautifully. They make the perfect Christmas gift.
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2. Portable Phone Charger
A portable phone charger is the one item I never travel without whether that be on a cruise, weekend away, at the airport, on a plane or on a train journey.
We use our phones for everything these days; as a camera, the internet, maps, apps, games, books, podcasts, music, messaging and sometimes even talking! All this use drains the battery.
This is where a portable phone charger comes in handy, during a cruise either onboard and you are not in the cabin or ashore in a port.
A portable phone charger will make a great cruise gift for all members of the family.
3. Towel Clips / Towel bands
These are a great little gift for cruisers going to the sunshine in the Caribbean, Mediterranean or Panama Canal.
The sea days on a cruise can be windy so having towel clips or towel bands will help your towel not fly away.
Or just stop that annoying thing of your towel not staying in place when you are sunbathing.
4. World Plug Travel Adapter
A world plug travel adapter is a simple gift, but very useful. Handy on board if your electrical items are not fitted with a North American or EU plug.
Also, when traveling to an embarkation port in another country or for your disembarking port that has different plug sockets.
5. Packing Cubes
I have been using packing cubes for years, they are a lifesaver when it comes to organizing your luggage when packing and unpacking when you arrive on board.
They come in lots of sizes and are a gift that will last for many trips.
6. Laundry bag
Another very useful gift to use on board a cruise ship is a laundry bag.
This keeps your cabin tidy and your dirty clothes separate.
7. Padlocks / Luggage Label / Cruise Luggage Label / Apple AirTag
We all need a TSA-approved padlock on our luggage if traveling through the USA and a luggage label is essential for all luggage,
A cruise luggage label is very useful as it is plastic and stops the paper embarkation luggage tag from coming off or getting wet if it is raining on embarkation day.
Apple AirTags are extremely useful when you need to locate your luggage that may be missing.
All handy cruise gifts!
8. Backpack / Day Bag
A backpack or day bag for port days is a cruise essential, wherever your cruise itinerary is.
Purses just don’t cut it when going on shore excursions, you need space for water, towels, layers, etc.
A backpack or day bag will make a great cruise gift.
9. Small Purse
When I go cruising I like to have a small purse to carry my phone, cruise card, and other little things I may need when walking around the cruise ship.
This makes a lovely cruise gift for those who like to carry their things around with them.
10. Fun Cruise T-Shirts
Funny cruise ship t-shirts are always a bit of fun, especially if you are traveling as a family.
If you are going on a cruise this Christmas make it extra special with matching tees.
Here is the full shoppable list to make it even easier!
I hope you enjoyed reading the ‘Cruise Gift Guide’ and it has given you ideas on what to buy for that cruise lover you know.
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Happy Cruising!
