Family Reunion Cruises

Cruise youth center

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More and more families are finding cruise vacations as a great way to bring families together to celebrate a family milestone anniversary, birthday or special occasion. Cruising is a great option for families. Onboard you can partake of nightclub entertainment, casino action and moonlit strolls on deck, while the kids are safely enjoying themselves in age-appropriate, adult supervised activities. Once docked, everyone can enjoy exotic ports of call.

Nothing compares to the ease and value of a family cruise vacation. One price covers your meals, exciting shipboard activities, and entertainment. On this vacation, you'll experience stress-free days without cell phones, traffic jams, valet parking and rushed lunch hours. Best of all, you will visit several destinations without having to pack and unpack.

Under the supervision of the youth staff, kids can play video games, eat pizza and play in a ball pit, while parents relax and have a fabulous five course meal.  It is a parent's and kid's dream come true!

Being a kid is all about having fun. Coincidentally, so is vacation. But kids and parents rarely agree on what is fun.

To parents, fancy dinners, late night shows and reading by the pool are fun. Kids have more fun playing games, doing scavenger hunts, and going down waterslides. The good news is that all of these activities occur on a cruise, making a cruise the vacation of choice for today's families.

Princess Cruise Line's comprehensive Love Boat Kids program makes child's play of family travel. On Crown, Royal, Sun, Dawn, Sea, Ocean and Grand Princess, you'll find complete Youth and Teen Centers with everything from arts and crafts to games, movies, splash pools, discos and video games.  Sun, Dawn, Sea, Ocean and Grand Princess even offer a toddler's play area and theatre, a dolls' house, a castle, computers and ice-cream kiosk. In addition to these features, Grand Princess offers kids their own deck space with a whale's tail slide splash pool and teens rate their own Jacuzzi and sunning area.

If you're a kid, then our Adventure Ocean Youth Program is just for you. It's a specially-designed complimentary program for kids from 3 to 12 and teens from 13 to 17. Using what's known as “Edu-tainment, Adventure Ocean blends educational activities, daily itineraries, ports of call, games, individual and team sports, art, performance and a general good time into a unique onboard experience for children, teens and parents. The "family" vacation concept will never be the same again. With Adventure Ocean, there are activities for the whole family, plus parents get a bit of free time to themselves and kids get some time to have all kinds of fun. That fun includes special meals, a TV station with programming dedicated to kids, and lots of great play areas. Royal Caribbean cruises are designed to bring families closer together and for EVERYONE to have the time of their life!

You want to go here. They want to go there. You want to unwind. They're just winding up. How do you take a real vacation and still bring the kids? By taking separate vacations, together.  NCL's Kid's Crew™ is a program of things to do, places to go and kids to meet. It's like recess, only longer. Sleep-away camp, only better. Because your children won't get homesick, but they also won't get underfoot. You can enjoy a massage while they're on a treasure hunt. Play roulette while they're camping out, or head for the Chocoholic Buffet™ while they're having a pillow fight at a pajama party. Every minute they spend in Kid's Crew™ is carefully supervised by our staff of youth counselors from leading universities and organizations. Prior to coming aboard, they attend a special training course on team and confidence building, communication skills, safety and working with children who have special needs. Together they've come up with an impressive bag of tricks for your kids.

At Carnival, fun is a family affair. We don't just allow kids. We love kids. Every "Fun Ship®" has a terrific supervised program just for children. We call it Camp Carnival where your kids will have the time of their lives. Whether they're teens or toddlers, Camp Carnival has an age-appropriate program offering full days of high energy fun under the friendly nd competent supervision of Camp Carnival® counselors.  We haven't forgotten about the grownups, either. Whether you're looking for dazzling Vegas-style shows or a late romantic evening in an intimate piano bar, Carnival's got your fun. And, assuming you can pull your kids away from the fun they're having, there are plenty of great activities for the family to enjoy together -- sumptuous meals, sports and games, and all kinds of entertainment. And that's just on board. You can explore the activities, culture and sights at every port of call.  So, bring your kids and your taste for fun. This year, treat the family to a perfect family vacation aboard a Carnival "Fun Ship®". And discover for yourself why Family Circle magazine calls Carnival "The Best Family Vacation Value" among all-inclusive vacations.

The "Club HAL Kids Pod" includes activities like putt putt golf, candy bar bingo, t-shirt painting and "camping." There’s even an ice cream with the stars, where the wee ones get to meet the onboard singers and dancers. Bring the kids and make it a family cruise. Thanks to Club HAL, a special program that offers oceans of fun for guests 5 through 17, the entire family can have the vacation of their dreams. You snorkeling in crystal blue waters, the kids building sand castles on the beach. Or vice versa. Fun for kids, tweens and teens Club HAL activities are captivating enough to engage youngsters ages 5 to 8, cool enough to attract tweens and teens. It all begins with a special Welcome Aboard meeting the first night of the cruise with our full-time youth coordinator and continues throughout the cruise with a dedicated daily youth program filled with fun: storytelling, crafts and candy bar bingo for the little kids; putt-putt golf, pool parties and video games for tweens and teens. And the fun lasts well into the night with movies, pizza and disco parties, so you can enjoy your evening knowing the kids are having a good time properly supervised.

Few names coincide with "kids", "family" and "fun" the way "Disney" does. They offers activities for your toddlers, teens and ages in between. There’s also plenty of mature fun for you, like relaxing in the Vista Spa & Salon, the ESPN Skybox or enjoying a romantic dinner in the adults-only restaurant, Palo. Disney's "Oceaneer Adventure" program for ages 3-12 offers dozens of interactive, supervised programs onboard and on Castaway Cay, Disney’s private Bahamian island. The "Oceaneer Club" for ages 3-8 has a Captain Hook’s ship theme and includes flights to Never Land, scavenger hunts with a "Little Mermaid" theme or a "mission control" activity assisting Buzz Lightyear in his journey "To Infinity and Beyond!"  The "Oceaneer Lab" for ages 9-12 includes "Goofy’s Gum Shoe Investigators", a marine biology themed game show, treasure hunts, baking "solar pizzas" and more. If you have kids under three, there are special parent-supervised structured activities for you to share with them, such as bubble fun and storytime. In-room babysitting is also available on a first-come, first-served basis.