Cruise Duck FAQs

Cruise ducks are small rubber ducks (or ducks of any kind!) that guests hide around cruise ships for others to find. It's a fun tradition that helps spread a little joy and surprise during the cruise!

Congrats! You have a few options:

• Rehide it somewhere else on the ship for someone new to find.
• Take it home as a souvenir.
• Bring it on another cruise so it can continue its adventure.

No matter what you choose, please visit the website and report where you found it so we can track its journey!

Nope! Rehiding is encouraged so the duck can keep traveling, but you're welcome to keep it if you'd like. We just ask that you report where you found it first.

You don't have to rehide it, but if you chose to. Good hiding spots are places where someone might stumble across it, like:

• Near seating areas
• Around decorations
• By activity areas or lounges

Please avoid hiding ducks in pools, shops, food areas, or places where crew members may need to remove them.

Yes, please do!! That's one of the best things you can do. Take it on your next cruise and hide it again so the journey continues. Just make sure to update the website when you do!

Reporting helps us track where each duck travels. It's fun to see how far they go and how many people find them! You can also upload a photo of where you found it.

It's simple, and there are no rules to sign up for:

• Someone hides a rubber duck somewhere on a cruise ship.
• Another passenger stumbles across it — that's the fun part.
• If the duck has a tag, the finder logs where they found it.
• They keep it or re-hide it, and the duck's story keeps growing.

Ducks with a CruisinPeeps tag build a travel history you can follow from ship to ship.

Just point your phone camera at the QR code on the duck's tag — no app to download and no account to create. It opens the log page for that exact duck. If the code won't scan (they get scuffed at sea), you can type the duck ID from the tag instead. It looks like DUCK-000123.

Keep it short and friendly. Most tags include:

• Something like "You found me! Take me home or hide me again."
• The duck's name, so finders can refer to it.
• A QR code or web address so the finder can log the find.

Skip anything with your cabin number or personal contact details — the tag is going to strangers.

Anywhere a passenger might spot it without hunting. Popular spots include:

• Handrails, ledges and window sills along the promenade
• Beside elevators and stairwells
• Near bars, lounges and the theater
• Tucked into deck decorations or planters

Avoid pools, buffets, shops, and anywhere crew would have to clean it up — a duck in the wrong spot just gets binned.

It's a passenger tradition rather than an official cruise line program, and it's generally welcomed as long as you're considerate. Keep ducks out of food areas, pools and walkways, don't stick anything to walls or doors, and never leave one where crew have to deal with it. If a crew member asks you to move a duck, just move it.

Every tagged duck has an ID printed on its tag in the form DUCK-000123. Scan the QR code, or open the duck's page directly and you'll see its full history — every ship it has been on, everywhere it has been found, and photos from the people who found it before you.

Cruise duck tracking is what happens after the duck is found. Hiding rubber ducks on cruise ships has been a passenger tradition for years, but a plain duck's story ends the moment someone pockets it.

It started as a small kindness between strangers and stuck. Hiding a duck costs almost nothing, and finding one is a genuinely nice surprise in the middle of a holiday. Families use it to give kids a treasure hunt that lasts the whole week, and plenty of people now hide ducks specifically so they can follow where they end up.

Any rubber duck works — most people buy a multipack before the cruise. The tag is the part that matters:

• Attach a small tag with the duck's ID and QR code.
• Punch a hole and use a short ribbon or twist tie — nothing that scratches surfaces.
• Laminate it or use a sandwich bag. Ships are humid and paper tags do not survive a week at sea.

Ducks with no tag still get found and enjoyed, they just cannot be tracked.

No to both. Scanning the QR code opens a web page, and logging a find takes about thirty seconds with no sign-up. That is deliberate — asking someone on holiday to install an app is how you lose the find.

Enjoy it! Plenty of ducks travel untagged. There is no ID to look up, so there is nothing to log, but you can absolutely re-hide it for the next passenger. If you want its next journey recorded, add a tag of your own before you re-hide it.

It is most of the appeal. Hunting for ducks gives kids something to look for on sea days, and scanning the code to reveal where the duck has already been turns a plastic toy into a story. Younger children just need a hand with hiding spots — nothing near pools, railings or anywhere they would have to lean over.

Every tracked duck has an ID printed on its tag in the form DUCK-000123. If the QR code will not scan — they scuff up at sea — you can type that ID in by hand and get to the same place.

All of them, as far as we know. Duck hiding is a passenger tradition rather than anything a cruise line runs, so it is not tied to a particular ship or brand. Ducks logged here have turned up across a wide range of lines. The only real rule is the same everywhere: be considerate about where you leave them.