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 programs run by trainedProfessionals. 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. At other times of the year, they offer a reduced rateProgram.

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-night pizza andDisco 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, pajama parties, line-dance andVolleyball.

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

Award Carnival Cruise Lines' award-winning program for children iscalled 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 Paradise house is a 2,500-square-footWorld's Children them the 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, Miracle, and also offer Real Virtuality - aHigh-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

PhotographyWorkshops

Babysitting

Babysitting is also available on Carnival's ships for children of all ages 4/hour for around $ 6/hour for the first child and $ more for each 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- 15 and 16-17). Children under three years are not allowed consultants conduct 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. Onoffers formal evenings, the program includes a complimentary slumber party and consultants 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

GolfPutting

Ping-Pong

All children have the opportunity to meet the captain and to learn how to navigate a ship to the 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 theFee is $ 8/hour for two children. Children must be at least six months old.

Disney

Disney Cruise Line has some of the 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 Adventurefor children ages 3-17 and a nursery facility, Flounder's Reef, for children aged between three and under. All programs are organized on board and run by youth workers and the care of 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 into 8-10 isand 11-12. Oceaneer Club facilities resemble Captain Hook's pirate ship with plenty of space for activities. Oceaneer Lab allows the participants to high-tech interactive programs experience hunts, 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-styleCoffee house, complete with arcade games and internet cafe.

In Port Activities

Every Disney cruise with stops at 1000 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 automaticallyenrolled in the activities of the island, volleyball, cycling, nature hikes, etc. once signed on the ship.

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 ClubHAL with counselors and age-specific activities for three age groups (5-8, 9-12, 13-17). Holland America also administers Just for Kids 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 roomwith video games and pool. Children aged 5-8 years can participate in storytelling that candy bar bingo games, arts and 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 children, while inPort. During the debate on private island Half Moon Cay, Holland America's children can join a real island treasure hunt, while young people participate 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 SodaPackage and various activity rooms for children, Norwegian Cruise Lines offers a program called Kid's crew, in four age-specific categories: Junior Sailors (2-5), First Mates is (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 publisheda day in which the activities available to them on the ship. All the kid NCL counselor at a training before coming on board that features team and confidence building, security, communication skills and working with children with special needs.

Age-specific program

All Kids Crew children get to meet the ship's captain to build a special Coke-tail party on treasure hunts and sandcastle, while competitions in Great Stirrup Cay dock,and enjoy the ice cream bar, chocolate buffet, and children's menu. There are a number of other activities arranged for children according to 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-ShirtPainting, or singing, and poolside root beer float parties.

Navigators (ages 9-12)

Activities include: Sega and other video 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 TeenCruise News daily, so parents, children and young people aware of the activities planned for each day.

In Port Activities

While docked at Norwegian private island, Great Stirrup Cay is, from the children with supervised activities from watersports, hunting appreciate volleyball matches to entertain.

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: $ 5/hour for the first child and for every $ 3/houradditional child. Private babysitting is not available.

Other

Norwegian Cruises also sells Kids Crew gift packages including 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 Cruises fleet-wide youth program provides age-specific activities forChildren 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). Princess Partners 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 squidPreparation. In Alaska, the "Save Our Seas environmental program gives participants about the endangered species like white pelicans, manatees and sea turtles.

Princess offers extensive children's facilities 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 Princess Kids programs on Royal, Tahitian, and Pacific only operate when 20 or more children aged3-17 are on board.

Age-specific activities

Princess Pelicans and Pirateers (3-12)

Arts & Crafts

Movies and Cartoons

Games

Scavenger hunts

Afternoon Ice 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

PajamaParties

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-pong tables

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 to youth passengers 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 offersActivities in 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 educational activities, 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 the whole of theFamily. 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 Classes and Projects

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

WackyOlympics

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 Beach Party

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 andCollege Night

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 war.

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. ChildrenMust be 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 on the ship's lounges and beverage service counters are available. 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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