Cruise ships: will I fit?
The onboard slides, coasters, and ropes courses, the tender boats that carry you ashore, and the shore excursions, each figure sourced and dated, and each one labelled with who actually owns the limit: the line, or the operator at the dock.
Every line hands the zip lines, parasails, snorkels
and submarines it
sells to the operator at the dock.
Not one of the four publishes a weight limit for the shore excursions it sells. The number you see for a zip line or a submarine is one operator's listing at one port, not a line standard, so it travels with a plain "operator-set, varies by tour, check your listing" caveat. The lines do own their onboard attractions and their tenders, and that is where we hold them to account below.
Who publishes what
The accountability view, cruise edition. "Operator-set" means the line declines to set the limit and points you to the local tour operator. "Partial" means the line publishes some of its own onboard numbers and leaves the rest to secondary sources we have badged as such. Where a column says the line declines, that is what we found, not what we failed to check.
| Line | Onboard limits | Tender guidance | Shore excursions | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Caribbean International | Partial | Yes | Operator-set | Not yet |
| Carnival Cruise Line | Published | Yes | Operator-set | Not yet |
| Norwegian Cruise Line | Published | Yes | Operator-set | Not yet |
| Princess Cruises | Few (a calmer line) | Yes | Operator-set | Not yet |
Disney Cruise Line is held: we could not read its pages on Disney's own site this round, so rather than publish numbers we cannot stand behind, we are holding it until we can. No Disney figures appear anywhere on this site yet. The Asked column will fill in as we put these questions to the lines directly; silence is part of the record.
At a glance
Verified June 15, 2026. Tap a column heading to sort. Each line's page carries the per-attraction figures, the tender block, the shore-excursion caveats, and a link to every source.
| Line | Onboard attractions | Onboard limits | Tenders | Shore excursions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Caribbean International (Royal Caribbean Group) | 11 tracked | Partial | Published | Operator-set |
| Carnival Cruise Line (Carnival Corporation) | 7 tracked | Published | Published | Operator-set |
| Norwegian Cruise Line (Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings) | 11 tracked | Published | Published | Operator-set |
| Princess Cruises (Carnival Corporation) | 4 tracked | Few (a calmer line) | Published | Operator-set |
Pick your line
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Royal Caribbean International
11 onboard attractions tracked · onboard limits: partial -
Carnival Cruise Line
7 onboard attractions tracked · onboard limits: published -
Norwegian Cruise Line
11 onboard attractions tracked · onboard limits: published -
Princess Cruises
4 onboard attractions tracked · onboard limits: few (a calmer line) · leads with tenders -
Disney Cruise Line
Held. Coming once we have verified it on Disney's own pages. No numbers shown until then.
Source tiers work exactly as everywhere on this site: a solid badge is a figure verified on the line's own page; a dashed badge is the line's own figure recorded from an excerpt and pending our direct read; an outlined badge is a secondary source, not yet confirmed on the line's page; a dotted badge is a community report, the lowest tier. See the badge ladder.