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Your cruise career sets sail here
61 cruise lines, 541 ports, 152 homeports. Learn them one stop at a time, and look anything up in seconds between calls.
Every dot behind this text is a real port on this site, placed by its map location. The glowing ones are homeports, where cruises start.
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Your itinerary
Your first voyage as a cruise agent
Six stops, in this order. Tick each one off when you've explored it. Stops marked Premium are part of the paid plan.
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- Stop 1 · Day 1
Meet the cruise lines
Who each line is for and what to say about it on a call.
- Stop 2 · Day 2
Learn where ships go
Regions, homeports, and where guests actually fly in.
- Stop 3 · Day 3
Booking 101
Cabins top-down, deposits, final payment, and rate codes.
- Stop 4 · Day 4
Selling Cruises
Greeting, Discovery, Pitch, Close, and handling objections.
- Stop 5 · Day 5
Loyalty & cruise families
Decode "I'm Platinum" and who owns which line.
- Stop 6 · Sea day
Two-minute drills
Quick quizzes between calls to lock it in.
Port of the day
Dresden
Germany · Homeport
Known as the "Florence of the Elbe" for its Baroque Quarter and riverside promenades; a classic Elbe river-cruise stop with a walking tour from the ship.
Why guests get excited
- Arrive a day early to see the Frauenkirche, the Baroque Zwinger Palace and the Semperoper opera house.
- The Green Vault is called the world's largest treasure chamber, and Raphael's Sistine Madonna hangs in Dresden.
- Stroll Bruhl's Terrace along the Elbe River for classic views of the old city.
Word of the day
Shore excursion
A tour in port. If a cruise line tour runs late, the line waits or gets guests to the next port at its cost; with an independent tour, missing the ship is the guest's problem.
On a call: "If you book the excursion through the cruise line and it runs late, they'll wait for you or get you to the next port. Book on your own and you're on your own."
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How to read the labels
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