Worried about going
with Kids?
Believe me, I know what you mean. When we talked to our friends after booking the
cruise, the first question they asked us was "Are you going with your son"? My wife
replied, absolutely yes. We did go with our 22 months old son and had great time
together with some exceptions. We can't think of leaving him.
I know many of you don't like take their kids since cruise is a special vacation
and holiday for day-today activities. Main reason, they do not want to worry about
feeding, doing chores for the kids. But if you decided to take them with you. It's
not really that bad as others exaggregate. You can still have fun and great time.
Many Cruise lines are now really kids friendly and actually encourage to bring kids.
They have special day care place for kids and have activities planned for them as
well.The day care personnel are so friendly but they are very strict. If you kid
is below 2-3 years, you won't be able to use those day care. But they do have babysitting
available for certain period on nominal charge. Carnival is really strict about
following that rule. Our son was just 2 months for his 2 years but they didn't take
him in for the Camp Carnival.
Using Pool
Kids have their seperate pool in many cruises. You can take your kids to those kids
only pool with Swim diapers. Try to avoid taking the kids with diapers to Other
pools for the benefit of others and sanitary reasons. Kids Pools and sauna are not
that deep and really fit for kids to play and have fun.
Kids Activities
In Carnival, Camp Carnival has lot of fun packed activities grouping from 2-5 years,
6-11 and up. They really planned and made it interesting and attractive for the
kids so the kids actually love to go to this day. Here is the list of
Camp Carnival 2-5 years activites for Carnival Ecstasy to just give you
an idea.
Kids Packing
I know packing is a real pain when it comes to kids. You need to take everything
needed and necessary so you won't feel bad when you miss a stuff and it was really
needed. To help you, here is the list I put together. This list is detail list which
can help for 4-10 day cruise vacations. Click to go get a Excel format or just
Print it.
If you still have question on this topic, check out the firsttimecruising.com forum and ask away.
If you still have question on this topic, check out the firsttimecruising.com forum and ask away.
