My first cruise, as a very young child, was on the Ocean Monarch in Dec 1962. There was one restaurant, a buffet was held once during the cruise in the indoor promenade. Believe they also had a midnight buffet in the main restaurant. We then sailed on Canadian Pacific, Increas, Swedish American, and Cunard. Those were great days and there were no kids club so you made your own fun. One memorable activity when we bugged a sailor was sanding the rails. We were each given a piece of paper and a bucket of sand and told to have fun!