Cruising in 2025: What We Got Right, What Surprised Us, What Missed the Mark
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Sheri from CruiseTipsTV
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🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
As 2025 comes to a close, we're taking an honest look back at Cruising in 2025: What We Got Right, What Surprised Us, What Missed the Mark at the year in cruising—what we got right, what genuinely surprised us, and what didn't quite live up to the hype.
In this Unplugged episode, we talk through the trends we accurately predicted, the changes we didn't see coming, and the cruise lines that quietly over-delivered when no one was looking. We also dig into the ideas that sounded great on paper but fell short in real life, and how our own cruising habits, expectations, and mindset shifted over the past year.
We wrap things up by looking ahead to 2026—what we're excited about, what we're cautiously optimistic about, and what we're hoping cruise lines continue to get right. No hot takes for the sake of hot takes—just thoughtful reflection from a year at sea and where we see cruising heading next.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Cruise Tips TV Unplugged podcast. Today, we're looking back at cruising in |
| 0:04.8 | 2025. We're going to talk about what we got right, what surprised us, and what missed the mark. |
| 0:14.1 | Welcome to Cruise Tips TV Unplugged. I'm your host, Sherry, and we invite you to join our cruise-loving family as we travel the world creating cruise videos and vlogs. |
| 0:26.5 | In this podcast, we talk tips, tactics, and strategies to help you make every cruise your dream cruise. |
| 0:34.4 | So it's a time of reflection. |
| 0:36.9 | That is exactly right. Yeah, it's time. 2025 is almost behind us. And I feel, I feel reflective. I also feel like I have a lot more opinions than I normally do right now about things. I think there's been a few shakeups in the industry this particular this year you know we first we |
| 0:55.8 | went through the big shakeup obviously covid was the hugest shakeup we've ever had and then we |
| 1:00.2 | sort of had this like new normal of coming back into cruising after covid right you had to kind of |
| 1:06.1 | adjust to the new way of things and then cruising just started to boom, right? It just came back and it came |
| 1:13.1 | back with a vengeance. It's absolutely more profitable and contributing more to the global |
| 1:20.1 | travel industry than we ever could have expected. But with that comes a lot of growth from the cruise |
| 1:29.4 | lines and maybe some good decisions, maybe some bad decisions. So we're going to talk about that |
| 1:33.8 | stuff, but we're also going to talk about personal stuff. So we're a few years away from COVID |
| 1:39.3 | already. So are you saying that there's still ripples kind of going through the industry? I don't think so. I don't think there's ripples of it. I think it's just that it marked a time for me when I feel like, you know, when cruising, because cruising stopped, I feel like we sort of started over. Cruising sort of started over as an industry at that time. |
| 2:01.1 | And it's changing every single year, right? |
| 2:04.1 | So we're not talking about COVID anymore. |
| 2:06.7 | We're not talking about pent-up demand anymore. |
| 2:09.4 | We're talking about new things. |
| 2:11.6 | But it does morph a little bit with every season, with every year. |
| 2:17.1 | And I think we're in a totally different season now than we were with COVID. |
| 2:21.1 | Good. |
| 2:22.0 | Yes. |
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