Expand your expertise and grow with cruise
Introducing cruises on Expedia TAAP
A new Expedia TAAP cruise booking experience, is available to a selection of agencies in the US, allowing travel advisors to research, compare, recommend and book cruises for clients.
At a glance
25
Cruise lines
400+
Ships
51,000+
Sailings
You don’t need cruise expertise upfront.
This program combines learning content, an advisor-focused booking platform, and access to our cruise experts to help you get started with confidence.
Grow beyond lodging
Cruise can help you reach new travelers, create a new revenue opportunity, and build on existing client relationships. With Expedia TAAP you can:
- Access to a broad range of cruise options, including contemporary, premium, luxury, river and expedition products.
- Compare sailings in one place and use rich content such as ship information, photo galleries, maps, deck plans and virtual tours.
- Cruise sales, offers, and promotions merchandised throughout, providing easy access to full details and terms and conditions giving your customer extra value.
- Compliment a cruise by booking other Expedia TAAP travel products such as hotels to create a more complete trip.
- Get support from a team of cruise experts when you require assistance in booking cruises for your clients on Expedia TAAP.
Getting started
Requirements to participate
Before you start booking cruise on Expedia TAAP, there are two things that need to be in place:
- Keep passing along Expedia's Terms of Service and Privacy Statement to your travelers. This is the same thing you already do for other TAAP bookings, so there's nothing new to do here. This is just a reminder that it matters for cruise too. Some of our cruise partners require travelers to be notified that their information may be shared with the cruise line to complete a booking and having you pass along the Terms of Service and Privacy Statement is how that's covered across the program.
- Confirm with your agency manager that your agency has its own written privacy and security policy, and that your team has been trained on it before participating in the pilot. If you're not sure whether your agency has one yet, check with your agency manager before booking cruise for a traveler.
Before you begin
- Advisors who are part of the Expedia TAAP cruise pilot will see a “Cruises” tab in the home page search widget. Hovering over this tab will display your temporary password to access the cruise booking platform. The username will remain the same as your current Expedia TAAP username.
- The first time you log in, you will be prompted to reset your password. For simplicity, you may wish to use the same password as you use to login to Expedia TAAP, but you may choose a different password if you wish.
- Download and review the cruise training resources below.
- And that’s it. Head over to Expedia TAAP and click on the “Cruises” tab to get started.
Cruise training resources
Cruise glossary
New to cruise? Here’s what those three numbers above mean:
- Cruise lines – The cruise brands you can book, each with its own ships, style, and market segment (contemporary, premium, luxury, river, and expedition).
- Ships – The individual vessels operated by those cruise lines. Ships vary by size, style, and onboard experience (from large, activity-packed vessels to smaller, more intimate ones), which is how you match a traveler to the right fit.
- Sailings – The specific voyages you can book, each defined by a ship, a departure date, a route, and the ports visited. One ship runs many different sailings across the year, so travelers choose the sailing (date + itinerary) that suits them.
A few more terms you will need to familiarize yourself with:
- Itinerary – The full route of a sailing: the embarkation port, the ports of call along the way, and the return.
- Embarkation port – The starting point where travelers board the ship and where the cruise ends.
- Disembarkation port – Some itineraries do not start and end at the same point. A disembarkation port is the final location where travelers permanently leave a ship.
- Port of call – Any port the ship visits during the voyage, where travelers can go ashore to explore.
- Cabin (stateroom) – The traveler's room on board, available in categories such as inside, ocean view, balcony, and suite.
- Tendering or tender port – When the ship anchors offshore and travelers use a smaller boat, called a tender, to reach the shore. This is common when a port cannot accommodate the ship directly.