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There’s no vacation quite like a vacation taken on board a cruise ship. More than ten million Americans now enjoy the luxury of a cruise each year, and the majority of them travel with their families. Because the demand for family cruises has grown so much, in fact, all the major cruise lines have revamped their ships with improved facilities to appeal to their customers regardless of age.
A few of the cruise lines have decided to target families with children. Their efforts to provide affordable cruises which offer plenty of kid’s activities and clubs, and on-board areas reserves strictly for the under-12 set, along with all the amenities to keep Mom and Dad comfortable and occupied, have earned them plenty of repeat business. Disney, Royal Caribbean, and Carnival Cruise Lines are three cruise operators known for providing maximum kid value for your vacation dollars.
While the activities aimed at kids under twelve will vary from cruise line to cruise line, here are some of the more popular ones:
Carnival Cruise’s Camp Carnival is divided in to four age categories, with programs supervised by trained counselors running throughout the day from 9:00 AM to 10:00PM. Toddler activities (ages 2-5) include finger and face painting, storytelling, sand and Play-Doh art, and Sony Playstation 2 activities.
Junior level six-to-eight year olds can do what the toddlers do but can also enjoy a pirate hunt, or compete in an ice-cream eating contest and a junior Olympics. Intermediate level nine-to eleven year olds can try jewelry making or scavenger hunts. They also have nighttime swim parties and ping-pong tournaments, and can show off their vocal talents at karaoke. For rainy day kid fun, Carnival has youth spa treatments and the H2Ocean science program which teaches kids how to make ice cream.
Like Carnival Cruises, Disney Cruise Lines divides their under-12 activities according to age groups, beginning with the infant and toddler nursery, the Flounder’s Reef, staffed by child-care specialists. Older kids can learn to draw cartoon characters, or make their own pirate flags to be judged by, of course, Captain Hook! They can also practice their investigative skills as members of Goofy’s Gumshoe Investigators, or watch a homemade volcanic eruption! Disney removes all the worry about traveling with your youngsters by supplying you with pagers when you drop them off for their day’s activities.
Royal Caribbean offers three age groups under 12 in their Adventure Ocean program, with activities scheduled for varying hours depending on whether your ship is at sea or in port. They also include parent/kid activities like talent shows and scavenger hunts. One feature which sets the Adventure Ocean Club apart is that your kids will be kept busy onshore as well as on the ship, with supervised beach parties, crab hunts, and sand castle building contests.
If your reservation about taking a cruise vacation has been that the kids would be bored out of their minds, nothing could be further from the truth. While the three cruise lines discussed here have excellent activity programs for kids under 12, they are by no means the only ones which do. So put away those reservations, and book the cruise ship reservations which will give you and your kids the vacation of a lifetime today!
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