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Weekend cruises from Miami: 3 to 5-night trips, the days they leave and what they cost

Weekend cruises from Miami are 3-night trips that leave PortMiami on a Friday and come back on Monday, and the 4-night trips leave on a Monday or a Thursday. Both go to the Bahamas, to Nassau and the lines' own islands. This site's schedule lists 307 three-night and 424 four-night sailings, from $199 and $159 per person, taxes and fees included, read on November 14, 2026.

By Andrew Budai · Last checked · Rates and opening hours change, so confirm before you travel.

Cruise lines sell short trips by the night, and this site lists them the same way. From PortMiami they run all year. The 3 and 4-night trips go to the Bahamas, the 5-night trips to the Bahamas or a little farther, and each length leaves on its own days of the week.

This guide sets out what a "3-day" or "4-day" cruise means in nights, which days each length leaves, which lines run them, where they stop and what they cost. The table at the end lists every sailing shorter than a week, rebuilt from the schedule every day.

What are weekend cruises from Miami?

They are 3-night sailings that leave PortMiami on a Friday, go to the Bahamas and come back on Monday. This site's schedule lists 307 three-night sailings, from $199 per person, taxes and fees included, read on November 14, 2026, and Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian and MSC run them.

Royal Caribbean's Miami page, read on November 14, 2026, sells weekend trips to the Bahamas on Wonder of the Seas. The 3-night page lists every 3-night sailing by date.

The weekend page is broader. It lists every sailing that leaves on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, whatever its length, so it also shows longer trips that start at the weekend.

What counts as a 2 or 3-day cruise from Miami?

A 2 or 3-night sailing. Because lines count nights, a "3-day cruise" is either a 2-night trip, which spans three calendar days, or a 3-night trip from Friday to Monday, which fills a long weekend.

Sailings of two nights are rare from Miami. The schedule lists 2 two-night sailings, and the table at the end of this guide includes them. For a long weekend, the Friday 3-night trips are the ones to compare.

What are 4-day cruises from Miami?

By the same count, a 3 or 4-night sailing. The 4-night trips leave on a Monday and come back on Friday, or leave on a Thursday and come back on Monday. The schedule lists 424 of them, from $159 per person, taxes and fees included, read on November 14, 2026.

Like the 3-night trips, they go to the Bahamas, though some 4-night sailings go to Mexico or Grand Turk instead. The 4-night page lists every date.

Five nights reaches farther. The 5-night trips leave on a Saturday or a Monday and go to the Bahamas or on to Grand Turk, the Dominican Republic, Grand Cayman or Mexico. They are on the 5-night page.

Which days do short cruises leave Miami?

Three-night trips leave on Fridays, 4-night trips on Mondays or Thursdays, 5-night trips on Saturdays or Mondays and 6-night trips on Sundays. The table shows when each length comes back and where it goes, with the counts and lowest starting fares per person, taxes and fees included, read on November 14, 2026.

LengthMain departure dayBack onGoes toSailingsLowest fare
3 nightsFridayMondayThe Bahamas307$199
4 nightsMonday or ThursdayFriday or MondayThe Bahamas, sometimes Mexico or Grand Turk424$159
5 nightsSaturday or MondayThursday or SaturdayThe Bahamas or the Caribbean220$230
6 nightsSundaySaturdayThe Caribbean132$289

The main day covers most sailings of each length, not every one, so check the date on the length page. Counted in weekdays off work, a Friday-to-Monday trip takes two, Friday and Monday. A Thursday-to-Monday trip takes three, and a Monday-to-Friday trip takes five.

Which cruise lines run short cruises from Miami?

Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian and MSC run 3 and 4-night trips, and Virgin Voyages sells 4 and 5-night trips. The counts and lowest fares below update with the schedule every day, per person, taxes and fees included, read on November 14, 2026.

Line3-night sailingsLowest fare4-night sailingsLowest fare5-night sailingsLowest fare
Carnival51$25585$22264$230
Royal Caribbean74$22987$23838$239
Norwegian95$229102$17910$299
MSC84$19985$1592$419
Virgin Voyages3$35762$436104$545

Royal Caribbean's Miami page also sells 4 and 5-night Caribbean trips on Freedom of the Seas. Virgin Voyages takes adults only, and its pre-voyage policies say "the minimum age to book and sail is 18 years old." A few sailings on other lines also run under a week, and the table at the end includes them.

Where do short cruises from Miami to the Bahamas stop?

At Nassau and the lines' own islands. Royal Caribbean pairs Nassau with Perfect Day at CocoCay, Norwegian with Great Stirrup Cay and MSC with Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve, each line's own island. Carnival's short trips go to Celebration Key, on the south side of Grand Bahama, and to RelaxAway, Half Moon Cay, which Carnival runs with Holland America.

Virgin Voyages' 4-night trips call at Bimini, where Virgin has its Beach Club, and at Key West. This site files a trip under the Bahamas when its stops are Bahamian ports, a line's island there or Key West.

The lowest 3-night Bahamas fare on the schedule was $199 and the lowest 4-night one $159, per person, taxes and fees included, read on November 14, 2026. The Bahamas guide covers each island, whether ships dock there and what costs extra, and Bahamas cruises from Miami lists every sailing by date.

How much are short cruises from Miami?

Sailings shorter than a week start at $159 per person, taxes and fees included, read on November 14, 2026, and the schedule lists 1,085 of them. Each fare is per person for two people sharing the cheapest cabin listed. Fares change every day, so check the current price with the line or seller before you plan around one.

Compare the fare per night as well as the total. On November 14, 2026 the lowest fare per night was $66 on a 3-night sailing, $40 on a 4-night one and $46 on a 5-night one. Five nights to the Bahamas started at $230, against $239 to the Western Caribbean and $327 to the Eastern Caribbean.

Gratuities come on top of the fare on Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian and Virgin Voyages, and on MSC according to its US service-charges page, charged per person for each day or night. The cheap and last-minute guide lists each line's rate as published on November 14, 2026, and the cheap cruises page ranks the lowest fares.

What do you need for a weekend cruise from Miami?

Documents, a way to the terminal and an arrival time.

  • Documents. CBP lets US citizens back into the country from a round trip with a birth certificate and government photo ID, and the lines accept that pair, but the Bahamas' entry page asks every visitor for a passport valid for six months. Your line's rules decide whether you board, a passport book satisfies both, and the documents guide has each line's rules.
  • Parking. At $28 a day on November 14, 2026, the county's rate at Garages C, D and G and Surface Lot E, 3 nights come to $84 and 4 nights to $112. Those garages serve Carnival's Terminals D, E and F and Virgin's Terminal V.
  • The $35 garages. Garage AA for MSC and Garage B for Norwegian charged $35 a day on November 14, 2026, so the same trips come to $105 and $140. Royal Caribbean's Garage A charged $35 a night on that date and requires a reservation, its operator says.
  • The extra day. The county charges "per day or a fraction" and does not say whether the morning you drive out counts as another day. On ParkWhiz, which the county links for Garage B, parking for a 4-night Norwegian Jewel sailing on November 15, 2026 cost $140, read on November 14, 2026, which is $35 for each of the four nights.
  • Arrival. Miami-Dade County asks passengers to arrive only at their scheduled embarkation time. Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian have you choose that time during online check-in.
  • Terminal. The county lists a terminal for each of these lines, but a ship can be moved, so go by your cruise documents. The terminals guide and the parking guide have the detail.

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Cruises from Miami shorter than a week

From the schedule on this site, rebuilt every day.

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These are the next 60 of 1,085. The other 1025 leave later, in these months:

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