Kids at Sea

Water slides, magic shows, pizza parties, scavenger hunts, karaoke, kids-only shore excursions, and disco parties. Who said parents get to have all the fun on a cruise? Well-trained staff, extensive facilities and coordinated activities, my cruise with kids can be smooth sailing for the whole family.

Most cruise lines offer private and group babysitting options from around 9am to the early hours of the morning. They also offer age-specific, organized programsrun by trained professionals. Although there are minor deviations from cruise line, age categories for organized programs usually focus on 3-6, 7-9, 10-12 and 13-17 year olds.

100,000 children were always maintained in the past year on the Carnival Cruise Lines, 114-foot water slides, video tournaments, talent, and puppet shows, ping pong, and scavenger hunts.

Celebrity Cruises offers a program full of kids in the summer and on holidays. All other times of theYear, they offer a reduced program.

The Princess Kids program on Princess Cruises offers young cruisers their own deck, complete with the whale tail splash pool. Teens on their very own jacuzzi and sunbathing area. There is also a video arcade, computer games and other activities such as bingo, name that Disney tune, ring throw, and mini-Olympics.

Club HAL on the Holland America Line offers fun and games for cruisers ages 5-17, serving movies, putt-putt golf, late into the nightPizza and disco parties.

Royal Caribbean Adventure Youth Program offers a unique brand of edu-tainment where participants enjoy educational and cultural activities are mixed with the daily itineraries, ports of call, games and team sports.

With Norwegian Cruise Lines, your kids will be trained, circus, and present a show for the proud parents. Other activities range from magic shows and pool parties, Root Beer Float wacky cooking classes, slumber parties,Line-dance and volleyball.

Royal Caribbean, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line also offer supervised shore excursions ranging from an afternoon panning for gold on the beach for canoe trips in Alaska.

Whether you're cruising with your child, between, or young, your cruise consultants will help you select the perfect family vacation. Best of all is, you never hear the words "I'm bored", while you're away!

Carnival

Carnival Cruise Lines'award-winning program for children is called Camp Carnival. Open all year to prepare the program provides facilities, age-specific programs / activities, youth playrooms with computers, water slides and children's pool, dining and special menus. The consultant-led programs are in four categories, divided Infants (2-5), Junior (6-8), intermediate (9-11) and teens (12-15). There is also a playroom for children under three years.

The Carnival Elation and Carnival ParadiseHouse is a 2,500 square-foot children to them the world's largest children's facilities in the Carnival fleet. Divided into three sections, which offer facilities, education in computer rooms and computer games, arts and crafts, and an indoor playground complete with a climbing maze and video wall where kids can watch movies, music videos and cartoons. An outdoor playground is a schooner-shaped playhouse and wading pool for toddlers. The Carnival Spirit, Pride, Legend, and MiracleAlso providing Real Virtuality - a high-tech, game room housing video and arcade games.

Age-specific programs

Infants (2-5)

Fun Ship Bingo

Sega and Nintendo

Cartoon Time

Sponge Painting

Sing-Alongs

Face Painting

Arts & Crafts

Drawing Contest

Juniors (6-8)

Puppet

Cookie Decorating

Beach Party

Disney Trivia

T-Shirt Painting

Sega and Nintendo

Outdoor Games

SeaAnimals

Intermediate (9-11)

Ping-pong, table football, basketball, air hockey

Dance Class

Jewelry making

Scavenger hunts

Backstage Tours

Photography Workshops

Talent Shows Teens (12-15)

Pool Parties

Volleyball

Pizza Pig-Out

Hairdressing

Talent Shows

Slip and SO

Ping-pong tournaments, table tennis, table football, basketball, air hockey

Photography Workshops

Babysitting

Babysitting is also availableships of Carnival for children of all ages 4/hour for around $ 6/hour for the first child and $ for each additional child.

Celebrity Cruises

Celebrity Cruises offers a program full of kids in the summer and on holidays. At other times of the year, they have a reduced program. The complete program is offered for four age groups, specific groups: Ship Mates (3-6), Cadets (7-9), Ensigns (10-12), and Admiral Ts (13 to 15 and 16-17). Children under three years are not allowed inRatings-guided programs. You are most welcome in the nursery, and if accompanied by a parent under supervision. All consultants of the program are specially trained in the fields of child psychology, child development, education or recreation.

The programs are offered 9-Clock, 2-5pm and 7-10pm. There is also an optional Pajama Party from 10pm-1am. At the port the day there is an afternoon party, from 12-2pm. Formal evenings, the program offers a free slumber party andCarers take the children to a pizza party for dinner.

Age-specific activities

Ship Mates and Cadets

Painting

Drawing

Songs

Dances

Movies

Other age-appropriate activities.

Flags and Admiral Ts

Theatrical performances with dances and costumes (during the summer season)

Water volleyball

Basketball

Golf putting

Ping-Pong

All children have the opportunity to meet the captain and to learn how to navigate a shipthe stars. During lunch, the children together for the Celebrity Breakfast club or dinner to eat with the family and thus being made of a special kids menu. Finally, all children can participate in a masquerade parade.

Babysitting

In-cabin babysitting is available on all Celebrity ships on a request basis only. Requests must be made at least 24 hours in advance and charge $ 8/hour for two children. Children must be at least six months old.

Disney

Disney Cruise Line has some of theThe most extensive children's facilities and the sea. Both Disney Magic and Disney Wonder offer an elaborate Walt Disney Theater that a pile is similar to Broadway house. Buena Vista Cinema features Disney strips. Studio Sea is shaped like a television sound stage and offers a forum for G-rated floor shows. These ships also offer a children's program called Oceaneer adventure for children ages 3-17 and a nursery facility, Flounder's Reef, for children aged between three and under. All programs are on boardorganized and run by youth workers and welfare are both scheduled and unannounced visits by Disney characters every day.

Age-specific programs

Oceaneer Adventure is divided into three age-specific categories: Oceaneer Club (3-7), Lab (8-12) and Teen (split 13-17). The club program is further divided into age groups 3-4 and 5-7, while the Lab program is divided in 8-10 and 11-12. Oceaneer Club facilities resemble Captain Hook's pirate ship with plenty of space for activities. Oceaneer Labthe participants, the high-tech interactive programs experience chasing hands-on experiments and ship-wide treasure. Kids 11-12 can in a marine biology, competing knowledge-quest-game show and send digital postcards to friends. Teens (13-17) have their own club, occupies a large portion of deck nine, as Common Grounds - a New York-style coffee house complete with arcade games and internet cafe.

In Port Activities

Every Disney cruise with stops at1000 hectares of large private island Castaway Cay. Here, parents under a palm tree on a white sandy beach to relax while their children play in a supervised area or wade in a protected lagoon. The adventurous can snorkel in a place with tropical fish, treasure chests and faux shipwrecks scattered (one with Mickey Mouse riding) on the sheet. Children are automatically enrolled in the activities of the island, volleyball, cycling, walking, nature, etc. all at once in the signedShip.

Babysitting

Facilities for children from 9 clock until 1 clock. Flounder's Reef nursery has afternoon and nightly hour on a first-come, first-served "babysitter to availability. The prices are $ 6/hour for the first child and $ 5/hour for additional children.

Holland America

Holland America offers families throughout the year with a program called Club HAL with counselors and age-specific activities for three age groups (5-8, 9-12, 13-17). Holland America alsoJust for Kids managed adventure and learning shore excursions while in port. While the largest plants can be found on Maasdam, Zuiderdam, Oosterdam, and Westerdam, kids will be maintained complete for all ships in the fleet of Holland America.

Age-specific programs

All children are to pizza and cocktail parties, ship tours, special menus, treats, activities room with video games and pool. Children aged 5-8 years can participate in storytelling that candy bar bingo games, artand crafts, charades, and ice cream parties. The age group 9-12 years is maintained with golf putting lessons, dance classes, deck sports, scavenger hunts, table tennis and karaoke. Young people have a teen disco, dance lessons, arcade games, sports, card games, interesting facts and competitions.

In Port Activities

Just For Kids offers supervised shore excursions for kids while in port. During the debate on Holland America's private island Half Moon Cay, the kids can have a true island treasure hunt whileYoung people in their own party and beach volleyball game.

Babysitting

In-cabin babysitting is available on request basis. Applications must be made 24 hours in advance and charge $ 7/hour for the first child and $ 5/hour for additional children from the same family.

Norwegian Cruise Line

Together with the provision of an unlimited Kids Soda Package and various activity rooms for children, Norwegian Cruise Lines offers a program called Kid's Crewin four, age-specific categories: Junior Sailors (2-5), First Mates divided (6-8), Navigators (9-12) and teens (13-17). The programs and facilities vary from ship to ship, with the broadest programs found on the Star, Sun and Dawn. Every trip treats children a Coke-tail party with the captain. Norwegian, Kids' Cruise News and Teen Cruise News daily published in which the activities available to them on the ship. All NCL counselor at a kidTraining before coming on board that features team and confidence building, security, communication skills and working with children with special needs.

Age-specific program

Get All Kids Crew children, the captain of a special session to take Coke-tail party, to build sand castles and treasure hunts, competitions while docked in Great Stirrup Cay, and enjoy the ice cream bar, chocolate buffet, and children's menu. There are a number of other activities arranged forChildren on the basis of their age. Below is a list of some of these activities:

Junior Sailors (ages 2-5)

Activities include storytelling, T-shirt painting, arts and crafts, face painting, magic shows, Circus at Sea, and numerous other indoor and outdoor activities.

First Mates (ages 6-8)

Activities include: Wacky cooking classes, decorative T-shirt painting sing, or and poolside root beer float parties.

Navigators (ages 9-12)

Activities include: Sega and otherVideo games, treasure and scavenger hunts, pajama parties, movies, and camp-outs with flashlights and tents.

Teens (13-17 years)

Activities include pool parties, volleyball and basketball, The Game Newlymet and trivia contests, line-dance, teen disco and special theme nights.

Each vessel also publishes Kid's Cruise News and Teen Cruise News daily, so parents, children and young people know the activities planned for each day.

In Port Activities

DuringNorway docked at the private island, Great Stirrup Cay are chasing, children with supervised activities from watersports to appreciate talking to volleyball matches.

Babysitting

Babysitter group is for children aged 2-12 years offered in the evenings from 10pm-1 clock and the port of 9 5pm. Cost: 3/hour $ 5/hour for the first child and $ for each additional child. Private babysitting is not available.

Other

Norwegian Cruises also sells Kids Crew gift packagesincluding a cup, soda pass, t-shirt, luggage tags, baseball cap and sunglasses. For adolescents, the package is Teen Passport and contains 20 non-alcoholic specialty drinks, dance and pizza parties, and a farewell bash!

Princess

Kids Princess, Princess Cruise's fleet-wide youth program provides age-specific activities for children aged 3-17 years. The program is divided into three categories: Princess Pelicans (3-7), Princess Pirateers (8-12) and Off Limits (split 13-17). PrincessPartners with the California Science Center and uses National Wildlife Federation educational materials on wildlife and conservation with the children. Your Mexican Riviera program includes studies of the stars, sea and coral reefs, and building and racing sailboats, marine biology studies and squid dissection. In Alaska, the "Save Our Seas environmental program gives participants about the endangered species like white pelicans, manatees and sea turtles.

Princess offers extensiveFacilities for children on all vessels except the Royal, Tahitian, and Pacific Ocean. The Sun, Dawn, Grand, Golden, Coral, Iceland, Diamond, and Star Princess offer a toddler play area. And function Princess Kids programs on Royal, Tahitian, and Pacific countries only when there are 20 or more children aged 3-17 on board.

Age-specific activities

Princess Pelicans and Pirateers (3-12)

Arts & Crafts

Movies and Cartoons

Games

Scavenger hunts

AfternoonIce Cream Parties

Backstage and Galley Tours

Hall of Fame Tournament

Discos

Exclusive Kids Only Dining

Edu-tainment Programs

Karaoke and lip-sync shows

Pizza Parties

Aboard Olympics

Pajama Parties

T-Shirt Coloring Off Limits (13-17)

Nintendo

Movies on a big screen TV

Karaoke and lip-sync shows

Casino Night

Card and board games

Aboard Olympics

Ping-PongTables

Jukeboxes

Pizza Parties

Separate Jacuzzi and sun deck (on Grand and Golden Princess)

Babysitting

Group babysitting is available 10pm-1am for children aged from 3-12 years on all vessels except the Royal, Tahitian and Pacific Princess. The price is around $ 5/hour.

Other

Youth and Teen Center on the Grand, Golden Star, Sea, Ocean, Dawn, Sun, Coral, Iceland, Diamond and Regal Princess offer complimentary scheduled activities for the youthPassengers ages 3-17 from 8-5pm, while in port. A special supervised complimentary lunch is also available with parental consent.

Royal Caribbean

Adventure Ocean, Royal Caribbean's Kids Program, "offers activities in the port, at sea and in the evening. There are five categories Adventure Ocean: Aquanauts (3-5), Explorers (6-8), Voyagers (9-11), Navigators (12-14), and score (15-17). With edu-tainment, Royal Caribbean blends educationalActivities, daily tours, ports of call, games, individual and team sports, art, performance, and a general good time into a unique, integrated experience for children, adolescents and parents. There are kids-only activities, and for the whole family. And Royal Caribbean also offers kids a special menu of hamburgers, pizza and other child-friendly meals.

Age-specific activities

Aquanauts: Ages 3-5

Science Experiments

Art ClassesProjects

Un-Birthday Parties

Cookie Creations

Ice Cream and Rock-N-Roll Party

Talent Show

Pajama and Carnival Parties

Discovery: Ages 6-8

Science Experiments

Art classes and projects

Wacky Olympics

Name That Tune

Pirate and County Western Night

Movie Mania

Voyagers: Ages 9-11

Science Experiments

Art Classes and Projects

X Games

Rockin 'Through the Decades

Reggae BeachParty

Scavenger hunts

Backstage Tour

Sports Tournaments Navigators (12-14) and Guests (15-17)

Pool Party, Toga Party

Mix and Mingle

Sports Tournament

Scavenger hunts

Prom Night and College

Battle of the Sexes

Dancing under the stars

Tae Bo

Talent Show

In Port Activities

Aquanauts, researchers and travelers can take to sandcastle building, family water balloon relays, parachute games and tug of warWar.

Babysitting

Group babysitting is offered at a price $ 5/hour. Sitting in the cabin by Guest Relations and fees can be booked starting at $ 8/hour and children must be at least six months old. Children need to potty trained (no diapers, no pull-ups).

Other

On a Royal Caribbean Cruise, cruisers 18 years and younger can have as many fountain soft drinks as they want at a fixed price with Ocean Potion Card. This card is for the purchase of the availableShip's lounges and beverage service counters. Kids-only dinners hosted by expert youth staff give children the opportunity to exchange views, while parents enjoy a quiet dinner alone.

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