Cruise Schedule 2024

Cruise Statistics for 2024

The 2024 cruise season surpasses last year when 78 cruise ships arrived with 127,747 passengers and 58,121 crew.

For the second year running, the longest cruise ship will be ‘MSC Preziosa’ at 333m long and with a capacity of 4,345 passengers 1,313 crew. In a very close second place, is the ‘Regal Princess’ at 330m long. With a capacity of 3,592 passengers 1,205 crew. These ships are operated by MSC Cruises and Princess Cruises respectively. Both call this year, ‘MSC Preziosa’ calling once and ’Regal Princess’ calling 16 times.

Viking Cruises are now top of the schedule with 21 visits this year, sending ships from their ocean going fleet.  In second place are Norwegian Cruise Lines, visiting Dún Laoghaire 10 times this year. Nine ships will make their inaugural call to Dún Laoghaire.