One ship sails from Singapore all year. Here is her full published calendar — two, three, four and five-night itineraries to Malaysia, Phuket, Ko Samui, Bangkok and Bali — with the port times as the operator prints them, and which terminal you actually board at.
Almost every page selling "Singapore cruises" leaves out the one thing you actually need: which ship sails, on what day, and where she goes. That is not a secret. There is one cruise ship homeported in Singapore all year, she publishes her calendar months ahead, and once you can read it the whole thing stops being confusing.
This is that calendar, in plain English, with the port times as the operator prints them.
There is one ship, and she leaves from Marina Bay
The ship is the Genting Dream, sailing as Dream Cruises under StarDream Cruises — the brand that took over the operation from Resorts World Cruises in 2025. Same ship, same terminal, same crew; only the name on the paperwork changed, which is why you will still see all three names used online.
She sails from Marina Bay Cruise Centre Singapore. This matters more than it sounds, because Singapore has two cruise terminals and they are eight kilometres apart. The other one is the Singapore Cruise Centre at HarbourFront, above VivoCity. If your driver takes you to the wrong one you will not make the ship. Marina Bay Cruise Centre is not on the MRT either — the nearest station, Marina South Pier, is not a walk anyone does with cruise luggage.
Every sailing on the current calendar
Grouped by length. All of them are round trips: you leave Singapore and you come back to Singapore.
2 nights from Singapore
- 2 Nights Melaka [KL] Cruise — sails Wednesdays, 0 dates left on the published calendar.
- 2 Nights Port Klang [KL] Cruise — sails Sundays, 7 dates left on the published calendar.
- 2 Nights Melaka [KL] Cruise — sails Sundays, 0 dates left on the published calendar.
- 2 Nights Weekend Getaway Cruise — sails Fridays, 32 dates left on the published calendar.
3 nights from Singapore
- 3 Nights Melaka [KL] – Penang Cruise — sails Tuesdays, 0 dates left on the published calendar.
- 3 Nights Melaka [KL] – Penang Cruise — sails Sundays, 0 dates left on the published calendar.
- 3 Nights Penang – Port Klang [KL] Cruise — sails Tuesdays, 7 dates left on the published calendar.
- 3 Nights Penang – Melaka [KL] Cruise — sails Tuesdays, 0 dates left on the published calendar.
- 3 Nights Phuket Cruise — sails Tuesdays, 16 dates left on the published calendar.
- 3 Nights Redang Cruise — sails Fridays, 0 dates left on the published calendar.
4 nights from Singapore
- 4 Nights Ko Samui – Redang Cruise — sails Mondays, 0 dates left on the published calendar.
5 nights from Singapore
- 5 Nights Bangkok – Ko Samui Cruise — sails Sundays, 0 dates left on the published calendar.
- 5 Nights Bali Cruise — sails Sundays, 1 date left on the published calendar.
How to choose between them
Two nights: a weekend, not a holiday
Friday evening out, Sunday afternoon back. Either a full day at sea with nowhere to be, or one port call in Malaysia. This is the sailing people take as an add-on to a Singapore trip they were taking anyway, and it is the one that works if you have never cruised and want to find out whether you like it before committing a week to it.
Three nights: one or two countries, properly
Tuesdays mostly. Penang, Melaka, Port Klang for Kuala Lumpur, or Phuket. The Phuket sailing is the outlier and the interesting one — she berths overnight, which turns a port call into an evening ashore rather than a rushed six hours.
Four and five nights: the ones that only run a few times a year
Ko Samui, Redang, Bangkok, Bali. These appear once or twice on the whole calendar, so they are dated events rather than a service you can pick a convenient week for. If one of them is the reason you want to cruise, work the rest of the holiday around that date.
What the schedule does not tell you
A port call is shorter than it looks
"8am to 7pm" is eleven hours on paper. It is not eleven hours ashore. Disembarkation takes time, you must be back aboard well before the departure time rather than at it, and in a tender port you are queuing for a boat in both directions. Plan a port day as two-thirds of what the timetable suggests and you will never be the family running down the quay.
The sea day is the product, not a gap
First-time cruisers look at "High Seas" on the itinerary and see a wasted day. It is the day the ship is actually yours — the pools are open, nothing is scheduled, nobody is waiting in a coach. The two-night weekend sailing is built entirely around this.
The same route can run to a different clock
The Sunday Melaka cruise leaves Melaka at 8pm for part of the year and 7pm for the rest. That kind of thing is not a misprint — it changes what you can do ashore, and it is why the table above is generated from the operator's published calendar rather than typed once and forgotten.
Cruise and city, not cruise or city
The mistake worth avoiding is flying to Singapore, boarding the same day and flying home the day you disembark. Two nights either side turns a cruise into a holiday, and it protects you: a delayed flight on arrival day is a missed sailing, and no cruise line will hold the ship or refund you for it.
Singapore rewards those days. Attraction tickets for Gardens by the Bay, the Night Safari or Universal Studios are worth booking before you fly rather than queuing for on the morning, and our things to do in Sentosa guide covers the island most people spend their pre-cruise day on.
Booking it through us
If you know which sailing you want, we can hold it. We are a Singapore-based operator (STB licence TA03365N) and we book the Genting Dream alongside the rest of the trip — the cabin, the nights either side of the sailing, the airport and terminal transfers, and the attraction tickets for the days you are ashore. One quotation, one company answering the phone, and the fare quoted for the actual date you want rather than a headline price for a date you cannot take.
Tell us the sailing date and how many of you there are on our plan your trip page and we will come back with the cabin options and a full costing. If you are combining the cruise with a land holiday, start from our Singapore packages from India instead and say "cruise" in the message.
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