GothCruise News
Our next cruise, “GothCruise XIX: Frozen in Time” sets sail on August 22, 2025! GothCruise is old enough to drink! Celebrating 21 years of mayhem on the high seas, the Original GothCruise is embarking on a voyage on the amazing Anthem of the Seas to the awesome Alaskan Coast for 7 days and nights of adventure, food, fun, and most importantly, friends!- August 22, 2025 – Seattle, WA
- August 23, 2025 – Cruising
- August 24, 2025 – Sitka, AK
- August 25, 2025 – Skagway, AK
- August 26, 2025 – Endicott Arm, Dawes Glacier and Juneau, AK
- August 27, 2025 – Cruising
- August 28, 2025 – Victoria, BC
- August 29, 2025 – Seattle, WA
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Since 2004, the Original GothCruise has been providing a fun group vacation for Goths, Non-Goths, Freaks, Geeks, their families, their friends, and everyone in-between! Join us on a cruise with your friends and your friends-to-be.
- Sail with us to ALASKA on the awesome Anthem of the Seas!
- Exclusive Themed GothCruise Dance Parties with our own DJs!
- Exciting and Fascinating Destinations!
- Fun Onboard Events!
- Gaming Nights!
- Nice Boats!
- Safe, Friendly and Welcoming Atmosphere!
- Booking by the World’s #1 Professional Group Travel Agency!
- Look below the map for more info on what makes GothCruise GothCruise!
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The idea is simple: get a group of Goths, their friends, and like-minded people we haven’t met yet, put them all on a boat, add rum, hilarity ensues!
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August 22nd to August 29th, 2025
On Anthem of the Seas!
GothCruise Events and stuff.
GothCruise is a vacation for Gothy folks, their friends, and their families on the high seas. It is very much about traveling with your friends and taking in the sights and excursions that are available on the ship and in the ports we visit, with most of your time spent enjoying the cruise experience. (Want to know more? Click Here) Having said all that, what makes it “GothCruise” is the opportunity for us to have our own fun. So, in no particular order:Exclusive GothCruise Formal and Costume Dance Parties: On the voyage’s “at sea” days, we reserve space in one of the ship’s music venues and have private themed pre-dinner dance parties where you can dance to great goth, industrial and related genre music provided by our own DJs. Many cruisers usually go all out, dressing to match the theme of the dance. Previous dance party themes included dystopian futures, haunted old west ghost towns, the roaring 1920s, your favorite apocalypse, superheros, doomed voyages, fantasy realms, dreams and nightmares. Click here or go to the Events page to see what we’ve got going on this year.
Group Dining: After a busy day either in port or on the ship, you have the option of joining the rest of your fellow GothCruisers in the Main Dining Room for a lovely dinner from the wonderful Royal Caribbean chefs. You can tell the tales of your grand adventures while eating a sumptuous three course meal.
Game Nights: Break out the dice, cards, game boards and score sheets. If you bring it, chances are you’ll find someone to play it with you. At least one night can be set aside for game play.
Pre-cruise Meet-up: For those folks who arrive at our departure port early, we’ll have a gathering of cruise-bound folks at a local gathering place.
Meet ‘n’ Greet: (Sail-Away Day) Pick up your laminate and have your first fruity rum drink. Meet old friends and make new ones. This is the best way to get to know the folks with whom you’re spending your vacation.
These are all in the very early planning stages and subject to change. All are very much dependent on how many cruisers book with us and space availability. We will have more details when we are much closer to the sailing date. Watch our facebook group for more details when they are available.
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Goth Cruise: the Movie
Yes. We were featured in a full length documentary called Goth Cruise: The Movie. It was originally aired on the IFC channel in 2008 and it’s now available on Vimeo. The documentary follows us on GothCruise IV in 2007 and explores the the allure of the Goth subculture and what it really means to be Goth.
We’d like to thank the director, Jeanie Finlay, (and TigerLily Films) for choosing to use The Original GothCruise and our friends as inspiration for the beautiful movie she created. We can think of no better way to show what the true enduring spirit of this thing called Goth (and our humble GothCruise) is all about. For more information about the movie and to watch it on Vimeo, go here: http://www.tigerlilyproductions.com/gothcruise
In the years since this movie’s release, Jeanie Finlay has gone on to shoot several highly acclaimed, award winning documentaries including Your Fat Friend, Game Of Thrones: The Last Watch, ORION: The Man Who Would Be King, The Great Hip Hop Hoax, Sound It Out, and more. We congratulate her on her numerous accomplishments and we are happy that we were part of something bigger than ourselves that will outlive us all.