2027 Southampton Cruises: British Isles, Iceland & the Atlantic Crossings

Table of Contents

• Quick Facts
• Introduction
• Season Highlights
• Why Choose a Round-Trip Cruise from Southampton?
• Destination Breakdown
• Month-by-Month Southampton Cruise Calendar for 2027
• Ship Deployment
• Planning Tips
• How to Find the Best Deals on Southampton Cruises
• Related Guides
• Frequently Asked Questions

Quick Facts

How we source these figures: CabinSaver tracks published Norwegian Cruise Line fares daily and has recorded 364 pricing snapshots for these sailings between 2025-08-16 and 2026-08-14. The ranges below reflect 27 2027 departures priced for solo travelers at single occupancy (which includes the single supplement), and are subject to change. Verify current fares directly with Norwegian Cruise Line before booking.

Introduction

Southampton is Norwegian Cruise Line's principal United Kingdom homeport, and the 2027 season there is unusually varied for a port with only 27 departures: a run of British Isles circuits on Norwegian Star, a set of Iceland one-ways on Norwegian Prima, a Baltic loop, a dedicated Norway fjord voyage, and three autumn crossings that end in North America. The season opens April 29, 2027 and closes October 20, 2027, when two ships leave on the same day in opposite directions.

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Disclaimer: Information provided in this guide is subject to change. Prices, schedules, times, and terminal assignments may vary. Always verify critical details (arrival times, parking rates, documentation requirements, terminal locations) directly with your cruise line, the port authority, or official sources before your trip. This guide is for informational purposes only.

Season Highlights

Three ships carry the 2027 Southampton programme, and each has a clearly separate job.

Norwegian Star is the workhorse with 17 of the 27 departures, and it is the ship behind almost every round-trip. Its core product is the 10-night and 11-night circuit of the British Isles, repeating roughly every ten days from May 23 through September 16, 2027, with Belfast, Dublin (Dun Laoghaire), Invergordon, Edinburgh (Newhaven) and Portree recurring across the set. Star also handles the season's two most distinctive round-trips: a 12-night Northern Europe loop departing September 26, 2027 that reaches Helsinki, Tallinn, Stockholm (Nynashamn) and Copenhagen, and a 12-night all-Norway voyage departing October 8, 2027 that runs as far north as Tromso and Alta.

Norwegian Prima covers the season's Iceland programme, with five one-way sailings between June 6 and August 29, 2027 that end in Reykjavik after calling at Isafjordur, Akureyri and a Norwegian fjord port such as Alesund, Bergen or Geiranger. Prima also runs an 11-night Baltic one-way to Copenhagen on September 19, 2027 and closes its season with a 14-night crossing to New York on October 20, 2027.

Norwegian Jewel appears three times only: a 9-night Baltic repositioning to Copenhagen on May 26, 2027, and then two crossings that both depart September 21, 2027, one running 14 nights to New York and the other 17 nights through to Miami.

Why Choose a Round-Trip Cruise from Southampton?

Fifteen of the 27 sailings in the 2027 season begin and end at Southampton, which is the practical appeal of the port for United Kingdom and Irish travellers: you can reach the ship by car or by direct rail from London Waterloo, leave from a terminal roughly 80 miles southwest of central London, and come home to the same berth without booking a flight at either end. Southampton is one of the few homeports in Norwegian's deployment where a full 10-night to 12-night itinerary is a drive-to proposition for a large domestic population.

The round-trip set is also where the itinerary variety sits. From the same berth in 2027 you can sail a 10-night circuit of Ireland and Scotland (June 3, June 24, July 15, August 5, August 26 and September 16 departures on Norwegian Star), an 11-night version that adds Amsterdam, Zeebrugge and Le Havre on the continental side, a 12-night Baltic loop to Helsinki and Stockholm, or a 12-night voyage that visits eight Norwegian fjord and Arctic ports without a single non-Norwegian call. Very few homeports offer that spread of Northern European geography on round-trips of comparable length.

For pre-cruise and post-cruise plans, Southampton itself has the maritime museums and the medieval town walls, Winchester and the New Forest are close by, and London is within easy reach for travellers who want a night or two either side. Norwegian's Free at Sea fare bundles are typically offered on these sailings, but what a bundle includes changes frequently and varies by fare code, so confirm the current inclusions with Norwegian Cruise Line before booking.

Destination Breakdown

British Isles and Ireland

The largest single block of the season. Norwegian Star runs twelve round-trip British Isles itineraries between May 23 and September 16, 2027, split evenly between 10-night and 11-night routings. Belfast appears on 12 sailings across the season, Dublin (Dun Laoghaire) and Edinburgh (Newhaven) on 11 each, and Invergordon on 10, which makes those four the spine of the product. The 10-night version tends toward a western routing with Liverpool, Cork (Ringaskiddy or Cobh), Portree and Portland, England; the 11-night version usually adds continental calls at Amsterdam (Ijmuiden), Zeebrugge and Le Havre. Individual departures vary the mix: the June 24, 2027 sailing swaps in Kirkwall in the Orkneys and Aberdeen, and the August 15, 2027 sailing calls at Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides.

Iceland and the Norwegian Fjords

Norwegian Prima operates five one-way Southampton to Reykjavik voyages in 2027, departing June 6, June 27, July 18, August 8 and August 29, at 10 or 11 nights. All of them pair Iceland with the Norwegian coast: Isafjordur appears on all five, Akureyri on four, and each includes at least one of Alesund, Bergen, Geiranger or Maloy. The July 18, 2027 sailing is the outlier, substituting Torshavn in the Faroe Islands. Norwegian Star adds a separate fjord-focused round-trip on October 8, 2027 covering Stavanger, Tromso, Alta, Alesund, Haugesund, Kristiansund and Bergen over 12 nights.

The Baltic

Three sailings reach the Baltic in 2027. Norwegian Jewel's 9-night repositioning on May 26, 2027 ends in Copenhagen by way of Aarhus and Berlin (Warnemunde). Norwegian Prima's 11-night one-way on September 19, 2027 is the deepest Baltic routing of the season, calling at Kiel, Gdynia, Stockholm (Nynashamn), Klaipeda and Tallinn before Copenhagen. Norwegian Star's 12-night round-trip on September 26, 2027 covers Helsinki, Gothenburg, Tallinn, Stockholm and Copenhagen and returns to Southampton, which makes it the only Baltic option that does not require a one-way flight home.

Ocean Crossings and the Southbound Run

Three sailings cross the Atlantic. Norwegian Jewel departs September 21, 2027 twice over, once on a 14-night crossing to New York and once on a 17-night routing that continues to Miami, both calling at Le Havre, Ponta Delgada in the Azores, Oporto and La Coruna. Norwegian Prima's 14-night crossing on October 20, 2027 takes a northern line instead, with Cork (Cobh), Sydney on Cape Breton Island and Halifax before New York. Separately, Norwegian Star's October 20, 2027 departure heads south rather than west, an 11-night one-way to Lisbon through Bilbao, Bordeaux (Le Verdon), Oporto, La Coruna and Vigo, which is the only Southampton itinerary of the year to reach the Iberian Atlantic coast without continuing across the ocean.

Month-by-Month Southampton Cruise Calendar for 2027

April 2027

The season opens with a single departure. Norwegian Star sails April 29, 2027 on a 10-night round-trip that is the most continental itinerary of the year, calling at Amsterdam (Ijmuiden), Hamburg, Zeebrugge, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Le Havre without touching Ireland or Scotland at all. Late April in the North Sea is cool and often wet, and this sailing is the season's lowest-priced round-trip on a per-night basis in the tracked data.

Ships: Norwegian Star. Destinations: Northern Europe. Duration: 10 nights.

May 2027

Three departures, and all three are structurally different. Norwegian Star runs a 7-night one-way to Copenhagen on May 9, 2027 by way of Le Havre, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Oslo, the shortest sailing of the entire season. Norwegian Star then begins the British Isles programme on May 23, 2027 with an 11-night round-trip taking in Dublin, Invergordon, Belfast and Edinburgh. Norwegian Jewel makes its first of three 2027 appearances on May 26, 2027 with a 9-night Baltic repositioning to Copenhagen.

Ships: Norwegian Star, Norwegian Jewel. Destinations: Northern Europe, Transatlantic. Duration: 7 to 11 nights.

June 2027

Five departures, the point at which both the British Isles and Iceland programmes are running in parallel. Norwegian Star sails 10-night and 11-night British Isles round-trips on June 3, June 13 and June 24, 2027, the last of which includes Kirkwall and Aberdeen. Norwegian Prima opens its Iceland season with 11-night one-ways to Reykjavik on June 6 and June 27, 2027, both calling at Alesund, Isafjordur, Bergen, Akureyri and Geiranger. June brings the longest daylight of the year at these latitudes, which is the main argument for the Iceland and Scottish island calls in this month.

Ships: Norwegian Star, Norwegian Prima. Destinations: Northern Europe, Extraordinary Journeys. Duration: 10 to 11 nights.

July 2027

Four departures in the heart of the European school holiday period. Norwegian Star sails 11-night British Isles round-trips on July 4 and July 25, 2027 and a 10-night western routing on July 15, 2027 that includes Liverpool, Cork (Cobh) and Portree. Norwegian Prima's July 18, 2027 sailing is the season's most unusual Iceland itinerary, replacing the usual Bergen or Akureyri call with Torshavn in the Faroe Islands and Maloy in Norway. July is peak demand across the Southampton programme, and it carries some of the highest tracked per-night fares of the season.

Ships: Norwegian Star, Norwegian Prima. Destinations: Northern Europe, Extraordinary Journeys. Duration: 10 to 11 nights.

August 2027

Five departures, the busiest month of the season alongside September. Norwegian Star covers three British Isles round-trips on August 5, August 15 and August 26, 2027, with the August 15 sailing adding Stornoway. Norwegian Prima runs Iceland one-ways on August 8, 2027 (10 nights) and August 29, 2027 (11 nights). The August 8 Prima departure carries the highest tracked inside-cabin per-night figure of the 2027 Southampton season, which is consistent with a short, high-season, one-way Iceland itinerary.

Ships: Norwegian Star, Norwegian Prima. Destinations: Northern Europe, Extraordinary Journeys. Duration: 10 to 11 nights.

September 2027

Six departures, the highest count of any month in 2027 and the month where the season changes character. Norwegian Star closes the British Isles programme with an 11-night round-trip on September 5, 2027 and a 10-night on September 16, 2027, then pivots to a 12-night Baltic round-trip on September 26, 2027 reaching Helsinki and Stockholm. Norwegian Prima runs its Baltic one-way to Copenhagen on September 19, 2027. Norwegian Jewel's two crossings both leave on September 21, 2027, at 14 nights to New York and 17 nights to Miami.

Ships: Norwegian Star, Norwegian Prima, Norwegian Jewel. Destinations: Northern Europe, Transatlantic. Duration: 10 to 17 nights.

October 2027

Three departures close the season. Norwegian Star's 12-night Norway voyage on October 8, 2027 is the only all-Norway itinerary of the year, running to Tromso and Alta inside the Arctic Circle where early-season aurora viewing becomes possible. October 20, 2027 sees the final two departures leave on the same day in opposite directions: Norwegian Star on an 11-night run south to Lisbon, and Norwegian Prima on a 14-night northern crossing to New York via Cork and Halifax. Expect cold and unsettled North Atlantic conditions on all three.

Ships: Norwegian Star, Norwegian Prima. Destinations: Northern Europe, Transatlantic. Duration: 11 to 14 nights.

Ship Deployment

• Norwegian Star - April 29 through October 20, 2027, 17 departures. The season's anchor ship and the source of almost every round-trip Southampton itinerary, covering the British Isles circuits plus the 12-night Baltic loop on September 26 and the 12-night Norway voyage on October 8. Star does not offer solo studio cabins, so single travellers on these sailings are pricing standard cabins at single occupancy.
• Norwegian Prima - June 6 through October 20, 2027, 7 departures. The newest ship in the Southampton deployment and the only one of the three with dedicated solo studio cabins in the tracked data. Prima carries the entire Iceland programme as one-ways to Reykjavik, plus the September 19 Baltic one-way to Copenhagen and the October 20 crossing to New York.
• Norwegian Jewel - May 26 and September 21, 2027, 3 departures. A short and specialised presence: one Baltic repositioning at the start of the season and the two September 21 transatlantic crossings, to New York at 14 nights and to Miami at 17 nights. The 17-night Miami crossing is the longest Southampton sailing of 2027 and the lowest per-night inside-cabin figure in the tracked data.

Planning Tips

• Decide round-trip or one-way before you shop. Twelve of the 27 sailings end somewhere other than Southampton, and five of those end in Reykjavik. A one-way Iceland itinerary means a flight home from Keflavik, which is a real cost that does not appear in the cruise fare. Round-trip travellers should filter to the 15 sailings that return to Southampton.
• Match the month to the itinerary, not the weather forecast. The Iceland and Scottish island calls concentrate in June through August for daylight reasons; the Baltic and Norway voyages sit in late September and October. Conditions in the North Sea and North Atlantic are variable in every month of this season, so pack layers and waterproofs regardless of when you sail.
• Getting to the port. Southampton is roughly 80 miles southwest of central London and is typically about 90 minutes to two hours by car depending on traffic, with regular direct rail service from London Waterloo taking approximately 75 to 90 minutes. Long-stay parking is available at the port at rates that change seasonally, so book ahead and confirm current pricing with the operator.
• Confirm the terminal, not just the port. Southampton runs multiple cruise terminals and assignments are made per call rather than fixed per cruise line. Your terminal will be on your travel documents; always verify it with Norwegian Cruise Line before you set off, as the terminals are several minutes apart by road.
• Documentation for multi-country itineraries. These itineraries touch as many as eight countries in a single sailing, including Iceland, Norway, the Schengen Area and, on the crossings, the United States and Canada. A valid passport book is typically required (passport cards are generally not sufficient for cruise travel), and transatlantic sailings ending in New York or Miami usually involve additional United States entry requirements. Requirements vary by itinerary and citizenship. Always verify current documentation requirements with your cruise line and check official government travel advisories before your trip.
• Solo travellers should check the ship before the date. Of the three ships in the 2027 Southampton deployment, only Norwegian Prima shows dedicated solo studio cabins in the tracked pricing data. On Norwegian Star and Norwegian Jewel sailings, a single traveller is booking a standard cabin at single occupancy, which carries the single supplement. Our guide on how to cruise for less as a solo traveler covers the trade-off in more detail.

How to Find the Best Deals on Southampton Cruises

Norwegian Cruise Line pricing fluctuates based on demand, booking time, and availability. Here's how to time your booking:

• Book early - Promotional fares often available 12-18 months in advance
• Monitor price drops - Fares change weekly; set up deal alerts to track your preferred sailings
• Expect real movement on these sailings - Across 364 pricing snapshots taken between August 2025 and August 2026, the observed high on a typical 2027 Southampton sailing has run approximately 21 to 33 percent above its own observed low, based on CabinSaver's own fare tracking as of August 2026 (subject to change). Current fares sit near the middle of that band, with 13 of the 27 sailings above their tracked midpoint and 14 below.
• Consider the shoulder months - April, May and October carry only seven of the 27 departures between them, and the April 29 and September 26 round-trips both price toward the lower end of the tracked range on a per-night basis (subject to change, as of August 2026)
• Length changes the per-night maths - The longest sailings show the lowest per-night figures in the tracked data: the two Norwegian Jewel crossings departing September 21, 2027, at 14 and 17 nights, sit at approximately $206-254 per night for solo travelers at single occupancy in an inside cabin, below the season-wide typical range of approximately $311-432 per night (subject to change, as of August 2026)
• Solo studio cabins are Prima-only - On the seven Norwegian Prima departures, studio fares typically ran approximately $340-358 per night for solo travelers at single occupancy as of August 2026 (subject to change), a narrower band than the inside-cabin figures across the wider fleet

Our deal finder shows real-time pricing across all 27 departures, helping you compare fares for your preferred dates and destinations.

Between twelve British Isles round-trips, five Iceland one-ways, three Baltic routings, a dedicated Norway voyage and three ocean crossings, the 2027 Southampton season packs an unusual amount of geographic range into 27 departures across three ships.

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Data current as of August 2026, derived from CabinSaver's own cruise fare tracking. Always verify availability and details directly with the cruise line.

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• Northern Europe by Sea: A Complete 2026 Baltic Cruise Guide - Background on the Baltic ports that the September Southampton sailings reach, including Tallinn, Stockholm and Gdynia.
• Norwegian Prima 2026 Itineraries - A closer look at the ship handling the entire Southampton Iceland programme and the only one here with solo studio cabins.
• 2026 Helsinki Cruises: NCL's Brand New European Homeport - Helsinki is the northern turn of Norwegian Star's 12-night September Baltic round-trip from Southampton.
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Frequently Asked Questions

How many Norwegian Cruise Line sailings depart from Southampton in 2027?

CabinSaver's tracking data shows 27 Norwegian Cruise Line departures from Southampton (London) in 2027, running from April 29 through October 20, 2027. Fifteen are round-trip sailings that return to Southampton and twelve are one-way voyages ending in Copenhagen, Reykjavik, Lisbon, New York or Miami. Verify current availability directly with Norwegian Cruise Line.

Which Norwegian ships sail from Southampton in 2027?

Three ships are scheduled from Southampton in 2027: Norwegian Star with 17 departures, Norwegian Prima with 7 departures, and Norwegian Jewel with 3 departures. Norwegian Star handles most of the British Isles round-trips, Norwegian Prima runs the Iceland and Baltic one-ways, and Norwegian Jewel covers the Baltic repositioning and the autumn transatlantic crossings. Schedules are subject to change, so confirm the ship for your date with Norwegian Cruise Line.

How long are 2027 cruises from Southampton?

Norwegian's Southampton departures in 2027 range from 7 to 17 nights, with 10-night and 11-night itineraries the most common by a wide margin (20 of the 27 tracked sailings). The shortest is a 7-night one-way to Copenhagen departing May 9, 2027, and the longest is a 17-night crossing to Miami departing September 21, 2027.

When is the best time to cruise from Southampton in 2027?

The 2027 Southampton season runs April through October, and the choice depends on the itinerary. June through August offer the longest daylight for Iceland, Norway and the Scottish isles. Late September and October bring the Norway fjord sailing, the Baltic loop and the transatlantic crossings, with fewer departures overall. Weather is variable in all months, so pack for cool, wet conditions regardless of season.

Where do 2027 Southampton cruises go?

Northern Europe dominates the 2027 Southampton season with 24 of 27 sailings, covering the British Isles, Ireland, Scotland, the Norwegian fjords, Iceland and the Baltic. Three sailings are ocean crossings ending in New York or Miami, and five carry Norwegian's Extraordinary Journeys designation for the longer Iceland routes. Across the season the itineraries call at 55 distinct ports.