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I've been searching for this same thing and just stumbled across this, which is not a catamaran trip, but is a trip to Klein Curacao that leaves at 9:45 for cruise passengers and is back by 4 p.m. Powerboat ride to Klein Curaçao island. Highly recommended for adventure! (powerboat-caribbean.com)

We're going to be in Curacao in late March and were hoping to do a half day catamaran trip, one where you sail a bit and then drop anchor and play in the water, snorkel, etc. It seems like they have something like this in most destinations, but for the life of me I'm not having any luck finding this on Curacao. We are there from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. on a Thursday. The Klein Curacao catamaran trips are full-day and leave too early for cruise passengers to join them, though they do look like lovely excursions. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance!

Hello! We are considering a mid-June sailing on the Joy out of NYC to Bermuda. Our two teenagers will be with us, a boy (14 - turning 15 shortly after the cruise) and a girl (16). This will be our first time on NCL with them as teens. We took a cruise last summer on RC (the Wonder), and that was the first time we cruised when they were old enough for the teen club. They LOVED the teen club on RC, especially my son who is very social. A few questions: 1. I read that the teen club is sometimes separated into younger and older teens. My 14 year old would be in the younger teen group, which would probably be problematic because he tends to hang out with older kids and he is the size of a full grown man (6' tall, 165 lbs). Is it common that they split the teens up by age, or are they typically all together? 2. Is the teen club open while the ship is in Bermuda? Typically it opens an hour before departure, which makes sense when you're in a different port every day, but it seems odd that it would be closed for 3 days while the ship is docked in Bermuda. 3. Is there a teen curfew on the ship? Last summer on RC they had a 1 a.m. curfew that the teens seemed to mostly ignore, and my son was pretty unhappy that I made him come back to the room by 1 a.m. every night. I, on the other hand, appreciated the curfew because it was imposed by the ship, not something I was imposing on him (other than making him abide by it, of course). 4. For anyone who has stayed in the Haven with teens, how strict are they on the dress code in the Haven restaurant? In the past we ate most breakfasts and dinners in there and the kids wore whatever we told them to wear. Now that they're older, they don't take direction regarding attire nearly as well, so I'm concerned they may simply refuse to eat in there with us if they have to wear non-athletic clothing. They don't typically wear crazy loud or distracting clothes, but my son wears athletic shorts and a solid color dry-fit Under Armor t-shirt and dark tennis shoes pretty much every day year-round, and my daughter wears black shorts and either a solid color or nicely patterned non-athletic cotton tshirt with solid black tennis shoes every day in summer. Is this going to fly in the Haven restaurant? Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide on any of these issues!

If we're taking a taxi back to the ship from town, how close can the taxi get to the actual ship? In other words, how long of a walk will we have after the taxi drops us off? Based on our current itinerary for that day, we may be cutting it close and I don't want to be a pier runner! Thank you!

Thanks! Do you mean they have to check in once and get a wristband (once) that is good throughout the cruise to do activities throughout the ship, or do they have to check in at the teen lounge before every teen activity they're going to do if that activity is located elsewhere on the ship?

Hello! We will be on the Wonder of the Seas next month with our 13 and 15 year olds. Do we have to register them for the Teen Program on the first day of our cruise, like we did for the kids' club when they were little? Or do they just come and go as they please? For some reason I can't find the answer to this question anywhere! Thank you!