Bring Your Group. We'll Help Build the Cruise Around You.
From milestone celebrations and social groups to churches, associations, clubs, alumni communities, and professional organizations, Cruising for Causes helps bring people together through organized group cruise experiences.
You bring the people and the reason for traveling. We help bring the group experience together.
There Are Plenty of Reasons to Travel Together
Celebrating something? Reconnecting with friends? Bringing an organization together? Planning an annual getaway? Your group does not need to be a nonprofit, conduct a fundraiser, or represent a charitable cause to plan a Group Cruise with Cruising for Causes.
Travel Together
Bring your people together on the same voyage while everyone still has the freedom to enjoy the vacation their own way.
Celebrate Together
Build memorable moments around birthdays, anniversaries, retirements, accomplishments, friendships, and milestones.
Connect Together
Create opportunities for members, friends, colleagues, and communities to strengthen relationships beyond everyday life.
Experience More
Combine the cruise vacation with group dining, activities, destinations, celebrations, meetings, and other experiences.
Group Cruises for the General Public
Cruising for Causes works with many types of groups. Whether you're organizing a personal celebration or bringing an established organization together, we can help determine whether a cruise is the right fit.
Celebrations
Birthdays, anniversaries, retirements, graduations, milestone occasions, and other reasons to celebrate.
Friends & Social Groups
Friends' getaways, social clubs, affinity groups, recreational communities, and annual trips.
Churches & Faith Communities
Fellowship travel, celebrations, retreats, ministry gatherings, conferences, and community experiences.
Associations & Organizations
Professional associations, civic organizations, membership groups, and community organizations.
Alumni & School Communities
Alumni associations, classmates, educational communities, school-affiliated groups, and reunion travel.
Military & Veteran Groups
Veteran organizations, military communities, service-connected groups, and shared-service gatherings.
Senior & Legacy Groups
Senior communities, social groups, multigenerational gatherings, and legacy-centered travel experiences.
Corporate & Professional Groups
Networking groups, recognition programs, professional communities, meetings, and team experiences.
Don't See Your Group?
Tell us what you're planning. Group Cruise opportunities are not limited to the categories above. We'll review your group's size, purpose, travel preferences, and needs to help determine the appropriate pathway.
Choose the Group Experience That Fits You
Not every group needs meetings, private events, or a full schedule of activities. We can help build the level of group experience that makes sense for the people traveling.
Just Travel Together
Your priority is getting everyone on the same cruise. Participants enjoy their vacation while sharing the voyage with the group.
Add Group Experiences
Incorporate selected shared experiences such as gatherings, dining, celebrations, recognition, activities, or other group moments.
Build a Signature Experience
Develop a more customized cruise around your organization, occasion, theme, community, or shared purpose.
Create the Moments That Bring Everyone Together
Welcome Gatherings
Give the group an opportunity to start the journey together.
Group Dining
Create opportunities for shared meals and group connection.
Celebrations
Recognize birthdays, anniversaries, retirements, accomplishments, and important milestones.
Recognition & Awards
Honor members, leaders, accomplishments, service, and meaningful contributions.
Meetings & Workshops
Incorporate appropriate educational, professional, organizational, or community programming.
Group Activities
Build shared activities into the experience when appropriate for your group.
Destination Experiences
Explore opportunities for members of the group to experience destinations together.
Theme Experiences
Build selected elements around your celebration, organization, community, or group identity.
You Don't Need a Cause to Cruise With Us
The Cruising for Causes Group Cruise Program is available to qualifying groups looking for an organized way to travel together. You do not need to represent a nonprofit, conduct a fundraiser, collect donations, or establish a charitable purpose.
Already Planning the Trip?
Whether you're celebrating a birthday, bringing friends together, organizing an annual club vacation, or planning travel for an organization, your reason for traveling belongs to your group. Our role is to help bring the cruise experience together.
You're Already Traveling. Let the Journey Do More.
When your group chooses Cruising for Causes, the experience can accomplish more than bringing people together. Revenue generated for Cruising for Causes through the Group Cruise Program helps support our programs, operations, and charitable mission.
Community & Service
Helping CFC strengthen communities, service initiatives, outreach, and meaningful connections.
Culture & Heritage
Helping create opportunities to celebrate, preserve, and share culture, history, heritage, and legacy.
Education & Opportunity
Helping support education, scholarships, professional development, entrepreneurship, and opportunity.
Health & Wellness
Helping advance initiatives that support wellness, restoration, awareness, and stronger communities.
Purpose Is an Opportunity, Not a Requirement
Some groups simply want to vacation together. Others want to incorporate service, culture, education, wellness, or another meaningful element into the experience. Both are welcome.
Your Group Decides What the Journey Means
When appropriate, groups may explore experiences connected to one or more of the Cruising for Causes Four Pillars. A standard Group Cruise does not require participation in pillar-based programming.
Choose the Right Path for Your Group
Group Cruise
Your primary goal is bringing people together for a shared cruise experience.
No fundraising campaign or charitable cause is required.
This is the right starting point for most social, celebration, club, church, association, professional, and general-public groups.
Fundraiser Cruise
Your organization wants the cruise to include an approved fundraising purpose.
The Fundraiser Cruise Program follows a separate development and review process.
Explore Fundraiser CruisesWe Built a Program Specifically for Families
Family reunions are group travel, but families often need something more. Our Family Reunion Cruise Program is designed around connection, celebration, family history, tradition, legacy, and bringing generations together.
Being a Group Leader Doesn't Make You a Travel Agent
Every successful group needs someone who helps keep the community connected. Your Group Leader or Coordinator serves as the primary connection between the group and Cruising for Causes.
- Help introduce and promote the cruise to the group.
- Communicate the group's preferences and priorities.
- Serve as a primary organizational contact.
- Help distribute approved information to participants.
- Encourage travelers to complete reservations and required steps by established deadlines.
- Help communicate group-specific activities and plans.
Every Group and Every Sailing Is Different
Depending on the cruise line, sailing, inventory, group size, and applicable program, qualifying groups may have access to certain group amenities, promotional opportunities, meeting arrangements, or other group benefits.
From Group Idea to Cruise Experience
Tell Us About Your Group
Share who is traveling, your estimated size, timeframe, occasion, and travel preferences.
Review the Request
We review the group's needs and determine the appropriate planning pathway.
Develop the Experience
Appropriate cruise and group options can be evaluated around your group's priorities.
Prepare the Group
Once established, participants receive the information needed to begin the reservation process.
Travel Together
Your group boards the ship and experiences the journey you've been planning together.
Tell Us About Your Group
You don't need to have every detail figured out. Give us enough information to understand what you're considering, and we'll use that information to begin evaluating the appropriate next steps.
Cognito Forms - Group Cruise Planning Form
Place the Group Cruise Planning Form embed code here.
Recommended fields: Group Name, Group Type, Primary Contact, Email, Phone, Estimated Travelers, Estimated Staterooms, Preferred Travel Period, Preferred Departure Region, Preferred Cruise Line, Desired Cruise Length, Occasion/Purpose, Age Mix, Special Group Experiences, Meeting Space Needs, Fundraising Interest, Four-Pillar Programming Interest, Approximate Budget, and Additional Information.
We'll Help Determine the Right Next Step
Request Received
We receive the information you've provided about the group.
Initial Review
We review group size, purpose, timeframe, and general needs.
Conversation
Additional information may be gathered to better understand what your group wants to accomplish.
Travel Options
Appropriate sailing and group structures can then be evaluated based on availability and fit.
Prepare to Launch
Once arrangements are established, your group can prepare for the reservation and participation process.
Bring the People. We'll Help With the Journey.
The ship provides the journey. The people create the experience. Whether you're celebrating something, reconnecting with people you care about, bringing an organization together, or simply looking for a better way to travel as a group, Cruising for Causes can help turn the trip into something everyone remembers.
Turn the Journey Into Something More
Whether you travel with us, support a cause, partner with our organization, or explore the Cruising for Causes Method, every connection can become part of a larger impact.