miamimommie Posted January 31, 2013 #1 Share Posted January 31, 2013 We have cruised Mariner twice with our young kids (4, 6) and are thinking of going on Serenade with them. Anyone have any experiences to share regarding children? Good, bad or otherwise?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwpreston Posted January 31, 2013 #2 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I have cruised on both the Mariner and the Serenade. I don't have any children, but thought I would go ahead and give it a shot. The Mariner as you know has many activities onboard from ice skating and so on. The Serenade is a great ship and does have miniature golf and a rock climbing wall, but lacks some of the things aboard the Mariner. It is a much smaller ship and does not have the royal promenade that being said I believe your kids are young enough that they will not be bored. However if I could chose between the two it would Serenade all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted January 31, 2013 #3 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Serenade also has a water slide for the kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb at sea Posted January 31, 2013 #4 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Any ship will give you plenty to do! No worries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindyloo17 Posted January 31, 2013 #5 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Taking my 10 yr old daughter in 2 weeks time !!!!! Will let you know what I think. We are a bit worried as use to Freedom and Liberty.... lots to do. Serenade was going out of Dubai which is why we decided to try it. Daughter is well traveled, but very excited to be going somewhere "different". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamimommie Posted February 1, 2013 Author #6 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Taking my 10 yr old daughter in 2 weeks time !!!!! Will let you know what I think. We are a bit worried as use to Freedom and Liberty.... lots to do. . Thanks, Lindyloo17 - look forward to hearing about your experience! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoosh21 Posted February 1, 2013 #7 Share Posted February 1, 2013 We have cruised Mariner twice with our young kids (4, 6) and are thinking of going on Serenade with them. Anyone have any experiences to share regarding children? Good, bad or otherwise?!? The Serenade was much more sedate to me. I dont have any kids, but I can tell you that it seemed that there were less children on that ship than my cruises on Voyager and Freedom Class ships Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onessa Posted February 1, 2013 #8 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Adventure Ocean has most of the same activities no matter the size of the shiip. And at 4 and 6YO those are the types of activities that the kids are going to be most interested in. They are a bit young to really "need" the flash of the ice skating rink, the flow riders, the zip lines. As to the 10YO going out of Dubai -- probably will be fewer kids but there should be lots of great sights in port. I suppose a lot has to do with the kids. Our DD (now 17YO) has travelled with us since she was an infant (37 states, 20 countries) and she will adapt to the situation and enjoy herself no matter what. Our last cruise (Baltic, late summer) there were very few American kids her age -- but she really enjoyed our tablemates (all adults), was facinated by the ports, and found three Portuguese teens about her age that she "hung out" with on the sea days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat54 Posted February 1, 2013 #9 Share Posted February 1, 2013 We sailed the Serenade in 2012 to the Med. I was amazed at the number of children there was onboard. There seemed to be enough to do to keep them busy.:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyMe Posted February 1, 2013 #10 Share Posted February 1, 2013 We are sailing Serenade with our almost 5yo and 11month old in May ... we would have loved to have done a bigger ship again (loved Indy last time) but the itinerary suited us much better on Serenade - we are pretty hopefully that it will be a hit for us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TardisGirl Posted February 1, 2013 #11 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I'm also sailing the a serenade in May with my 2 year old. The itinerary worked best for us. Fingers crossed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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