What To Do With Old Cruise Cards: My Cruise Card Collection

After more than 133 cruises, one thing I have accumulated an enormous number of is cruise cards!!

I’ve always kept the cards from my cruises. They are a small souvenir, but each one immediately reminds me of a particular ship and trip. The problem is that on their own they don’t actually tell you very much about the cruise.

So, I now have a post-cruise ritual that I really enjoy. After every cruise, I get a personalised Cruise Card from The Cruise Globe and store it alongside my original cruise card in one of their albums.

And I’ve just added the latest one to my collection.

My Regent Seven Seas Splendor Lisbon To New York Cruise Card

My latest Cruise Card records my 14-night Regent Seven Seas Splendor sailing from Lisbon to New York, which ran from 23 August to 6 September 2026.

The card shows the route we took across the Atlantic and records that the cruise covered 3,640 nautical miles.

That is one of the reasons I like these cards. My original Regent Seven Seas Cruises key card tells me the ship and dates, but the Cruise Globe version provides a much more complete snapshot of the actual journey.

Each Cruise Card includes the cruise line and ship, sailing dates, embarkation and disembarkation ports, a map showing the route, distance travelled and duration of the cruise.

Put alongside the original cruise card, it becomes a much more useful record of exactly what that particular trip was.

I Keep My Original Cruise Cards Too

I don’t throw away the original card once I have the Cruise Globe version.

Instead, I keep both cards together in a Cruise Globe album.

As you can see from the photographs, my original Regent Seven Seas Splendor Gold Member card now sits alongside the Cruise Globe card for the Lisbon-to-New York sailing.

As the collection has grown, I’ve found this much more satisfying than keeping a stack of old cruise cards in a box or drawer.

I can flick through the album and see not only which ships I sailed on, but where I went on each cruise.

There Are Cruise Globe Ship Cards Too

There is another type of card I collect from The Cruise Globe: Ship Cards.

Rather than recording one particular sailing, these contain information about the ship itself.

They include details such as the year the ship was launched, passenger capacity, number of crew, gross tonnage, number of decks, length, beam and flag state.

I already had a Seven Seas Splendor Ship Card from a previous cruise, so my album now contains three different records relating to the ship: my original Regent cruise card, the Cruise Globe Cruise Card showing my Lisbon-to-New York sailing, and the Cruise Globe Ship Card with the specifications and information about Seven Seas Splendor.

For someone like me who has sailed on so many different ships — and sometimes sailed on the same ship several times — I find that a particularly nice way of keeping track of everything.

How To Create Your Own Cruise Cards

The starting point is The Cruise Globe.

The Cruise Globe itself is free to use. You add the cruises you have taken and gradually build up your personal cruise history and maps.

Once you have entered your cruises, look towards the lower right-hand side of the site, where you will find the link to order Cruise Cards for the sailings you have added.

This also means you don’t have to start collecting from your next cruise. You can enter your past cruises and create cards for those too.

If kept your old ship cards and like something showing exactly where each of those cruises took you, these are a great addition to collect!

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What do you do with your cruise cards? Do you keep every one, display them somehow, or do they end up forgotten in a drawer?

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