1st cruise for a single mom & 3 boys

[bina]

Hello everyone,

I would love to do a thanksgiving cruise with my sons (15, 13, and 8)and i am in the process of picking which cruise ship to go on either the Elation (since they moved it FLL) or the imaginations (sp) they are both 5 days. Ifyou have been on either one of them please tell what you thought of cruise was and if you travled with your kids what did they think of the camp program.

Thanks for you help

bina

[captaincrash]

Interesting how nobody posted a reply in all this time....

 

... so - even though I have NOT been on either ship - I thought I'd offer my spin. We have had about 20 sailings - and four of these with our daughters currently aged 2 and 4.5. We like Disney from Port Carnaveral because of the super child friendly job they do. Consider - the ship does NOT have a casino aboard - and they have these huge kids clubs broken out by age and such. Plus everything else they do for kids! Each sailing has near 1000 youngsters aboard - and teens were roaming about in clusters - clearly having a great time. Your kids might find other pals on-line on the DIS board so they will have friends aboard long in advance of the sailing!

 

Check it out!

[angel41]

I've never done a 5 day cruise. Mostly b/c I've heard of them referred to as "booze cruises". Again, that's just from other people but that has been enough to keep me away from them. Depending on how you feel about exposing your children (some people are very funny about hiding those types of things), this may or may not be an issue.

 

Enjoy it and the time with your boys either way.

[Suezieq]

I have found both the rccl and celebrity kids clubs great.I am taking my 5 children on a 5 day cruise this January.

Enjoy yourself as cruising is the way to go!

[captaincrash]

well...

 

we've only done one 5 day sailing and it did not seem like a booze cruise - but I imagine any sailing could have wandering bands of intoxicated ships' rats. I recall being on a HAL sailing where the talk at the table waxed over the passenger who climbed from their veranda to someone else's (drunk) where they (he/she?) were discovered sleeping. Of all ships.

 

Furthermore, 5 nites were not all that bad as far as duration goes. But I'm sure every families' "mileage will vary" with personal taste and choosen ship routing. We did a Western on the old Monarch of the Seas... a flaming bargain for about $220 pp +p&t as I recall. Airfare from CA ran us more! So - at that price you can't complain much. It almost makes you wonder what they're serving for supper at that price. AND we had an outside cabin to boot.