HISTORY:  It’s all about you!

The world's first GothCruise, GothCruise: Prepare to be Boarded, sailed on January 12, 2004 for Key West and Cozumel on Carnival Fascination with 65 souls. Truly the original Original GothCruise!

GothCruise II: Too Much Angst for Just One Cruise sailed on January 3, 2005 from Miami for Grand Cayman and Ocho Rios on Carnival Imagination with 100 GothCruisers aboard.

GothCruise III: Once More Into the Drink sailed on January 16, 2006 for Nassau and CocoCay on the Royal Caribbean Sovereign of the Seas with 150 GothCruiser souls aboard.

GothCruise IV: We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat sailed on October 21, 2007 for Bermuda on the Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas with 110 GothCruisers onboard. Goth Cruise The Movie was filmed on this voyage.

GothCruise 5: The Barbary Coast sailed on November 22, 2008 on the Royal Caribbean Splendour of the Seas from Venice, Italy bound for Dubrovnik, Croatia; Santorini, Greece; Tunis, Tunisia; Malaga, Spain; Casablanca, Morocco; and Lisbon Portugal with 28 GothCruiser souls aboard.

GothCruise 6: Noir Noir set sail aboard the the Royal Caribbean Enchantment of the Seas on September 28, 2009 carrying 54 GothCruisers from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to Key West, Florida; Cozumel, Mexico and Belize City, Belize.

GothCruise 7: The Sinners and the Saints bound for the Virgin Islands of Saint Croix, Saint Johns, Saint Lucia and Saint Kitts from San Juan, Puerto Rico with 45 souls aboard the Royal Caribbean Serenade of the Seas on December 5, 2010.

Thirty-one GothCruisers traveled through the Bermuda Triangle aboard Celebrity Summit on GothCruise 8: Puttin’ on the Ritz sailing from Bermuda, St. Thomas, to San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 23, 2011.

In early August 2012, GothCruise 9 From Outer Space! 29 cruisers visited Disney World and Epcot then departed Port Canaveral on the Royal Caribbean Monarch of the Seas for CocoCay and Nassau, Bahamas. Also on the agenda were trips to Kennedy Space Center and Universal Studios.

On Friday, August 23, 2013, the GothCruise 10 On Ice pioneered the trail to Alaska being first to take the Goths North, setting sail from Seattle bound for Juneau, Skagway, Tracy Arm Fjord and Victoria, British Columbia on a seven day voyage with 47 GothCruiser souls aboard the Royal Caribbean Rhapsody of the Seas.

On Dec 14, 2014, GothCruise Goes to 11 cruised out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to Georgetown, Grand Cayman; Falmouth, Jamaica; and Labadee, Haiti with 27 intrepid GothCruisers aboard the Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas.

Setting sail from Tampa, Florida on November 14, 2015 GothCruise 12: The Return of Noir Noir voyaged to Roatan, Honduras; Belize City, Belize; Puerto Costa Maya, Mexico and Cozumel, Mexico with 23 GothCruiser souls aboard the Royal Caribbean Vision of the Seas.

On October 9, 2016, GothCruise 13: Oh, the Humanity! left Boston Harbor with 28 GothCruisers bound for Portland, Maine; Bar Harbor, Maine; Saint John, New Brunswick; and Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard Royal Caribbean's good ship Serenade of the Seas.

GothCruise 14: Greetings From Ghostwood sailed on Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas from September 29 to October 6, 2017 with 27 GothCruisers departing Seattle, Washington bound for Astoria, Oregon; San Francisco, California; and Victoria, British Columbia. In San Francisco, our DJs took over the upper room of Death Guild for the first GothCruise Night Out!

On December 29, 2018, GothCruise 15: The Final Countdown departed New Orleans and sailed into 2019 with 48 GothCruiser souls on a New Year's voyage to Miami, Florida; Nassau, Bahamas; and Key West, Florida aboard Royal Caribbean's good ship Vision of the Seas.

Sooooo, GothCruise 16 hasn't happened, yet. After the double whammies of COVID 19 in 2020 and 2021 and then war affecting the region in 2022, GothCruise 16: Here There Be Dragons! was put on the back burner. Maybe some day, when viruses and cooler heads allow, we will be able to sail the Baltic Sea on GothCruise 16.

After a 3 year hiatus due to COVID 19, we returned to the seas with GothCruise 17: Lost Souls, on April 19, 2023. GC17 departed Los Angeles, California and sailed with 36 intrepid GothCruisers on a 5 night trek to Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada, aboard Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas.

On April 7, 2024, GothCruise XVIII: ...And Things That Go Bump in the Night departed Miami, Florida and sailed with 12 GothCruisers on a 7 night voyage to St. Maarten, St. Thomas and Coco Cay aboard Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas.