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Onessa

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    USA - Midwest
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  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    RCCI, Celebrity
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Europe

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  1. Reminds me of a family trip we took 20+ years ago. My parents paid for a cruise for all us adult kids, spouses, and grandkids to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. My older sister and her husband were a pain! Bristled at any 'family' time but were more than happy to have my parents babysit their son (and let my parents pay their expenses). Most of the rest of the family still harbor resentment toward them. Other than that it was a great trip and good memories. The rest of us worked to balance time. We did dinners together every night and by choice hung out as a group afterwards. Were not too interested in shows - better times just talking among ourselves. Young kids had option to go to kids clubs after dinner. We did talk through excursions pre-trip and planned some that we all (less sister and BIL) went on as a family. Mostly we did our own thing, but ended up spending a lot of time together or in subgroups.
  2. Italy was my daughter's favorite when she was young -- some longer trips from port to cities, but she was surprisingly fascinated by Venice's canals and the Roman ruins in various spots. The older Italian women love little kids :). Greece and Turkey was great as well when she was young, but we tend to cruise early spring or late autumn so the weather was bearable -- Turkey regularly gets into the high 100's and even over 110 in mid summer.
  3. Middle school was a perfect time -- she really appreciated everything. High school was a problem because she was involved in a very active marching band and several sports -- so our trips were primarily chaperoning her band trips!
  4. Our daughter had major issues with smaller ships and car sickness prior to trying a short RCCI cruise. Surprisingly she had no problems on-board the ship. Only once did she have any issue when on the ship and that was general nausea during a full-out storm at sea (weather was so bad that the ship responded to an at-sea rescue operation for a commercial fishing vessel that went down). We bring various OTC anti-nausea meds "just in case" but find candied ginger is enough when doing smaller ship-based excursions or land tours that start getting too twisty.
  5. Mike, the adult table is grossly over-rated (all that not chewing with your mouth open, keeping elbows off the table, and besides someone might catch you hiding your Brussel Sprouts and make you eat them at the adult table)
  6. Your family sounds delightful and I hope you go and all have a marvelous time! My husband, daughter and I did a great deal of travel that included my parents (when they were in their late 70's and my mother was suffering from mobility issues). We all travelled very well together and really enjoy the memories. We did do one "family" land trip which also included my sister, her husband and their son -- that was NO fun. Sister and her family did not want to have to spend all that much time with us, chose to stay at a different hotel and my parents (who paid for the trips) had to pre-schedule time with them. Mom and Dad were just the bank and they did not want to be "saddled" (their word!) dealing with Mom's slowness. I am still disgusted. But I would not change a thing about any of the other trips we took with them over the years.
  7. we did a 14-day Celebrity Mediterranean cruise with our middle schooler. It was November and the Thanksgiving break mitigated the time out of school. We worked very closely (and very early) with all of her teachers. She did all of her math lessons on the plane on the way over (thank goodness she is great in Math, because I was looking over her shoulder and was mystified). Her social studies class was doing a unit on ancient cultures and was scheduled to do Greece -- her teacher gave her a pass. She had to do a report on volcanoes for science. No problems reading her book for English for a few hours one at-sea day when it was a bit too chilly and rough to do much of anything with her friends. We had two stops in France and started in Spain, so her foreign language teachers also gave her a pass (she brought back some treats with Spanish and with French labels as a bonus). She is really very good at managing her time, and is a good student so the teachers knew she wouldn't be just sitting by the pool. It was a great experience (Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Croatia, Greece, and Turkey). She met a bunch of girls her age -- an American girl whose parents worked at the embassy in London, another whose mother was stationed with NATO at The Hauge, and sisters whose father worked for the Italian office of a US manufacturer on the first leg of our trip. And then made friends with a brother and sister from Portugal in the second leg.
  8. I've done several AK cruises on various lines. The Princess and NCL specialize a bit more with the glacier cruise-bys. But with global warming issues I've seen more distance on that part of the trips across all cruise lines. Research the ports you want to visit, and book based upon the itinerary and what you want to do on-shore. I would be concerned about good kid clubs options since there does seem to be a bit more "as sea" time and less pool time. (we are from the northern midwest and the number of really good pool days even by our standards are pretty few).
  9. We bought a collapsible travel stroller for our then 4YO for our Italian land/cruise vacation. We spent considerable time "test strolling" - both husband and I are tall - travel strollers tend to be too short, and also to make certain it was comfortable for our DD. It travelled very easily, and we could fold it easily for transport in taxi/bus, storage in hotel rooms/state room, could fold up when in restaurants. Worked like a charm.
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