CruiseStar
Speed Rating is CruiseStar's fast pass through the fleet: you see a ship, leave a rating in one motion, and move to the next one. It turns building a cruise log from a chore into something closer to a quick game, and it's built primarily for the phone. You can also browse popular cruise ships before deciding which ones to rate.
How it actually plays out
Swipe right on a ship if you've been aboard, or tap a star rating directly on the card to rate it in one motion. Swipe left to skip a ship you don't have an opinion on, and an honest skip is genuinely more useful to the fleet's overall accuracy than a random guess, so there's no reason to force a rating on something you don't remember well. Each decision saves immediately and the next ship loads automatically, which is why a full session covers a dozen ships in well under a minute. Made a mistake? There's an undo control that reverses your most recent action, restoring the ship to the front of the deck along with whatever rating or sailed status you'd just set, no need to go hunt down its full page to fix an accidental swipe.
Yes, it counts as a real rating
A rating given through Speed Rating is identical to one given on a full ship page, it feeds into that ship's public average the exact same way. There's no separate "casual" tier; it's just a faster way to submit the same real data. One thing worth knowing: swiping right and rating a ship also marks it as sailed on your profile, since that gesture is specifically for ships you've actually been aboard. If you want to rate a ship without claiming you've sailed it, the ship's full page is the better tool, since rating and sailed status are set independently there. The CruiseStar rating methodology explains exactly which actions affect the public average.
Why the deck behaves the way it does
The deck intentionally skips ships you've already rated or skipped in your current pass, and it filters out anything you've already marked as sailed elsewhere on your profile, so a ship reappearing unexpectedly usually means a session got restarted rather than a bug in the queue. The order isn't random either: it prioritizes ocean ships with photos first, so you're rating recognizable vessels instead of staring at a blank card for an obscure ferry, with the wider catalog opening up the more you keep swiping.
Where it fits alongside the rest of CruiseStar
It's built around mobile's quick swipe gestures, but nothing about the underlying data is phone-only, the same rating and sailed-status info is always available from any ship's full page on desktop if you'd rather browse with more context, reviews, and photos in view. Think of Speed Rating as a complement to reviews rather than a replacement for them: it's for quickly building your rating and sailed history across many ships, while a full written review is where you explain why a specific sailing actually stuck with you. Read how CruiseStar ship ratings work for the full scoring methodology.