First time cruise for kids...anything beyond Disney comparable?
Jun 8th, 2009, 09:02 AM
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First time cruise for kids...anything beyond Disney comparable?
My husband and I like cruises but haven't been in years... we'd like to do a cruise vacation and need to bring our 8, 6, and 4 year old children along. I know Disney Line is obvious choice, but I wondered if anyone could recommend any other good options as far as cruise line or specific destinations for that age group? Thanks.
Jun 8th, 2009, 09:20 AM
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I know Carnival has a kid's camp. Check out http://boards.cruisecritic.com/ for tons of info.
Jun 10th, 2009, 07:02 AM
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Hi,
We took our daughter to many cruises from the time she was 7 (she's now 20) and I would never even consider Disney, way too expensive.
You can find some details of cruise lines I recommend on my website at http://www.carib-cruises.com/best-family-cruise.html and also some photos of ships and ports, all from our cruises.
We love cruising
Lise
http://carib-cruises.com
We took our daughter to many cruises from the time she was 7 (she's now 20) and I would never even consider Disney, way too expensive.
You can find some details of cruise lines I recommend on my website at http://www.carib-cruises.com/best-family-cruise.html and also some photos of ships and ports, all from our cruises.
We love cruising
Lise
http://carib-cruises.com
Jun 10th, 2009, 12:10 PM
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We just got off the Mariner of the Seas (RCI) this past Sunday. It was our 6-yo DS' first cruise and he absolutely loved it. RCI has the Adventure Ocean kids program, and the kids are broken up into age groups (e.g., my son was w/ all 6 to 8-yo's). They played sports, did craft projects, played games (both computer and non-computer). I'd love to take a Disney cruise but it would have cost us easily a couple thousand more than the junior suite we had on RCI. Here are a few things our son enjoyed on board outside of the kids' program: ice show (ice skating rink on board), miniature golf (mini golf course on top deck aft), bingo (they provide a kids' pack of cards for all games except the final jackpot games), parade, and esp. the towel animals left by our cabin steward each night. Now that we have experienced a cruise w/ our son that is NOT Disney and saw how much he enjoyed it (so much so that we booked our next cruise while still on board), I see no point in spending the extra $$ to book w/ Disney. Just my $.02 of course
