Eligible candidates for the fourth edition
T
he Cruceroadicto 2025 Awards include all candidates relevant to the Spanish-speaking cruise community during the period being evaluated.
The editorial team from Cruceroadicto.com is responsible for reviewing and updating the complete list of eligible candidates on an annual basis.
This selection ensures that all voters can find the real choices for their cruise experiencewithout inaccessible or inactive candidates that distort the results.
Editorial selection process
Annual review methodology
The Cruceroadicto.com editorial team conducts a thorough review each year to determine eligible candidates in the three main categories:
CANDIDATE CRUISE LINES: The cruise lines available to the average Spanish-speaking cruiser worldwide are reviewed. Those that cannot be booked in traditional online agencies in the different Spanish-speaking countries and those cruise lines that have ceased their activity are eliminated.
CANDIDATE SHIPS: The complete fleet of each candidate cruise line is updated, adding new ships that have entered service and eliminating those that have been sold, scrapped or have ceased operating during the season.
CANDIDATE PORTS: The itineraries of the candidate ships are reviewed to identify which ports have been the most visited as stopovers or have served as home ports to start or end cruises.
Inclusion criteria
Accessibility: All candidates must be accessible to the average Spanish-speaking cruiser through traditional booking channels.
Confirmed activity: Only candidates with confirmed cruise activity during the 2025 season are included.
Geographic relevance: Priority is given to candidates with a presence in itineraries accessible from ports with regular connections to Spanish-speaking countries.
Confirm that you are a candidate
If you are part of a shipping company or Port Authority and want to confirm that you are one of the candidates that can be voted by cruise travelers you can contact us.
We will be happy to confirm or modify it if necessary. You can use our contact form.
Candidates by category
Final summary of eligible candidates for the 2025 edition of the Cruceroadicto Awards
Valid candidates in 2025
Candidate data 2025
CRUISE LINES
Candidates by segment
- Family Cruise Lines: 12 companies - (26.1%)
- Premium Cruise Lines: 15 companies - 32.6%
- Upper Premium Cruise Lines: 6 companies - 13.0%
- Luxury Cruise Lines: 13 companies - 28.3%
Candidates by type of navigation
- Ocean Cruise Lines: 37 companies - (80.4%)
- River Cruise Lines: 5 companies - (10.9%)
- Ocean/River Cruise Lines: 4 companies - (8.7%)
SHIPS
Top cruise companies by number of ships
- Viking Cruises: 100 ships (18.3% of total)
- Croisieurope: 47 boats
- Amawaterways: 29 boats
- Royal Caribbean: 29 boats
- Carnival Cruise Line: 28 boats
- MSC Cruises: 23 boats
- Norwegian Cruise Line: 20 boats
- Princess Cruises: 17 boats
- Uniworld River Cruises: 17 boats
- Celebrity Cruises: 15 boats
Candidates by type of vessel
- Oceanic Vessels: 327 boats (59.9%)
- Riverboats: 219 boats (40.1%)
P O R T S
Global coverage: 592 ports in 118 countries
Candidates by geographic region
- Mediterranean: 100 ports (16.9%)
- Asia: 93 ports (15.7%)
- Atlantic Europe: 86 ports (14.6%)
- North America: 69 ports (11.7%)
- Northern Europe: 57 ports (9.6%)
- Caribbean: 53 ports (9.0%)
- Oceania: 35 ports (5.9%)
- South America: 31 ports (5.2%)
- Africa: 27 ports (4.6%)
- Pacific: 18 ports (3.0%)
- Middle East: 13 ports (2.2%)
- Private scales: 10 ports (1.7%)
Top 10 countries with the most ports
- United States: 49 ports (8.3%)
- Japan: 41 ports (6.9%)
- Spain: 31 ports (5.2%)
- Italy: 30 ports (5.1%)
- Norway: 28 ports (4.7%)
- United Kingdom: 27 ports (4.6%)
- Greece: 21 ports (3.6%)
- France: 18 ports (3.0%)
- Mexico: 14 ports (2.4%)
- Australia: 14 ports (2.4%)
Candidates by port type
- Base Ports: 89 ports (15.1%)
Departure and arrival points to start or end cruises. - Scales only: 503 ports (84.9%)
Destinations to visit during the cruise itinerary.
✱ Note: Port awards are given exclusively for ocean cruise destinations.
Differential value of the selection
At Cruceroadicto.com we are proud of the arduous process of configuring the final list of candidates so that travelers can choose their favorites.
This allows to obtain an exceptional voting quality since there is no open field that allows to freely enter the name of the chosen one. This methodology avoids typical errors such as someone voting for "Barcelona" and another for "varcelona", or confusion between ships with similar names such as "Royal Caribbean" vs "Royal Princess".
The result: clean, accurate and comparable data that accurately reflect the real preferences of cruisers, without distortions caused by typos, duplicate names or spelling variations.
Specialized editorial work
The selection of candidates is an ongoing editorial task that requires in-depth knowledge of the sector and constant monitoring of changes in the industry.
This process ensures that voters find exactly the choices of their actual experience, without confusion or irrelevant candidates that may distort the results.
Constant updating
The list of candidates is continually updated each edition with the changes registered in each year, incorporating new shipping lines starting operations, ships entering service, and ports joining new itineraries.
This update ensures that the 2025 edition reflects the current broad picture of the cruise industry accessible to the Spanish-speaking market.
The largest international coverage of any award
With 592 ports in 118 countriesThe CruiseAddict Awards 2025 evaluate everything from the world's major hubs to unique destinations on every continent. No other cruise industry award has this complete geographic coverage.
Consultation of specific candidates
During the voting period, all eligible candidates will be available directly on the voting form, organized alphabetically and by category to facilitate the search.
If during your voting experience you do not find a specific candidate that you were expecting, it may be because they do not meet the inclusion criteria for the 2025 edition.
For specific candidate inquiries, you can contact us through our inquiry form where we will evaluate each particular case.
Want to learn more about the process?
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