I love sharing my cruises with friends, but up until now I’ve been relying on two very unreliable things: a collection of messy lists and my memory.

Try as I might, I could never remember in which order we visited the ports. I didn’t know how far I really travelled, and I never was able to get the full picture about what really happened onboard.

That’s why we have created The Cruise Globe. The world’s first completely free-to-use digital platform that shows the exact routes of cruises you’ve taken with complete accuracy.

This isn’t where the ship was planning to go. This is where it really went. The ship left behind this data, and we’ve made it usable for you. In just the first week, over 50,000 cruises have already been logged! 

It has never been possible to see and share a cruise quite like this before. You can zoom right in, play around in 3D, and really re-live your cruise, port by port. 

Without seeing these maps, I’d never have had any idea where we went. When you’re looking out to sea in every direction, it’s really hard to know. 

I was actually asleep when this happened, so I never would’ve known!

Seeing it like this really brings back the memories, and the quirks are my favourites, those are the parts I like to show my friends. 

I also love to share my cruise stats on what we have called your “Cruise passport”

The Cruise Globe was created by me and my two friends, Matt and Will – we’re the team behind the company The Cruise Maps and you’ll see our prints in the backgrounds of my videos.

Will trained in Naval Architecture, which is ridiculously cool, and both of Matt’s parents worked on Cunard ships, so between the three of us, the love of cruising goes deep.

I’ve always felt as though the cruise industry has been left behind but I didn’t have the know-how to create what I wanted. I had so many ideas but not a lot else…

I just knew there had to be a better way to track our cruises than just spreadsheets, and luckily for me, Matt and Will actually know how to bring AIS data to life. 

When you enter your cruises onto the globe, you get stats – like how many nights you’ve spent at sea, so far. The record I’ve seen is Gary from Tips For Travellers with a whopping 496 nights at sea. Very impressive. 

You’ll also be able to see which countries you’ve visited, how many ships you’ve been on and your most-cruised cruise line.

I don’t think it’ll be any surprise to anybody that mine is Norwegian Cruise Line, followed by MSC and Marella.

The Cruise Globe is not just for keeping track of everything either. You can share your cruises with friends, post them on Facebook, or compare your stats.

Every single cruise has a downloadable cruise card, so you can save and share your trip by just pressing one button.

We’ve designed The Cruise Globe to be as easy to use as possible. You don’t need any tech skills at all you just need to know what ship you went on and where and when your cruise started and ended, we work out everything in the middle. 

Watching this you might be wondering, why has nobody done this before?

That is a question I asked myself for a while but honestly, it’s because it’s insanely complicated and mind-blowingly expensive to build.

The majority of cruises added show up on The Cruise Globe instantly, but as you can imagine we do have a small percentage that need a human touch. We’ve had eight people working full time to do that and have just hired even more. 

We’re able to do this because The Cruise Globe is funded entirely by our print company, The Cruise Maps.

If you love seeing your cruises mapped out on the free website version, our hope is that you might want a few prints for your wall or in a Cruise Album.

That’s completely up to you of course, if you do, that’s amazing! If not, no problem at all. The most important thing to us is that you enjoy it, and if you could share the message as far as possible that would be amazing. 

When you next get chatting to somebody on a cruise, you can show them where you’ve been on your cruise globe. When you come home and want to show your family where you’ve been, you can show them, for real. 

The response so far has been incredible, but this is just the start, by the end of 2025 were hoping to add live cruise ship data, future cruises, river cruises and even a mobile app.

That does all depend on how much you like the site of course, so please let me know and if you ever have feedback or ideas, email us at

[email protected]

We read every single message because we want this to be the best tool possible for you.

I cannot wait for you to try it! Head to thecruiseglobe.com enter your cruises, and let me know in the comments, what interesting things did you find out about your trips?! 

I found out that on the Norwegian Ferry cruise I took with Havila, we really stuck so close to land.

I knew that in theory of course but seeing it like this and being able to compare it to the other Norway cruises, really shows how close we stayed.

Maybe somebody on the bridge was practising their left and right turns. I had no idea about this from being on the ship though, as far as I could tell it was just sea in every direction!

I spent 7 days at sea on my transatlantic cruise – and I knew that it was a long way but seeing the real nautical miles – 3192 – really brings it home.

This is the only cruise I’ve ever taken that I wouldn’t like to repeat, so to find out why, check out this video next: 

Find out more about my cruises and the cruise maps that you can create here:

Before You Go

Find out why your planned route might be altered before, or actually while you are on your cruise here:

4 Reasons Your Cruise Itinerary May Change

Find out whether the cruise line have to compensate you if a port is missed here:

Do You Get Compensation For Missed Cruise Ports?

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