Theoretical NZ Cruise Timetable 2036/37

This is not a real cruise schedule. Every date, ship and time is a theoretical Cruisey case study — one internally consistent way the 2036/37 year could look if the 4,000-call ambition were reached after the infrastructure programme is delivered. Roughly a third of the vessels named do not exist. Check the vessel basis column before quoting any ship.

One row is one vessel at one NZ port or approved cruise destination on one calendar day. Times are synthetic and have not been checked against tides, berths, pilotage or daylight. Passenger figures are planning approximations, not headcounts. Fictional vessels are shown in italics — names like Aotearoa Explorer and Te Moana are invented Cruisey concepts so they cannot be mistaken for real deployments. The point of publishing a fake timetable in full is that you can argue with a schedule in a way you can't argue with a headline number: tell us where it breaks — this port is too small, that ship too big, this week too crowded — and we will change it and republish.

Companion reading: the capacity analysis that sets out the model this timetable is built from, and the timetable overview.