Other than the concierge rooms that are on the same level of the cove pool area, couldn't the occupants of the forward rooms on the other decks walk to the midship elevators before going up to the pool deck? Wouldn't that eliminate the "need" to walk through the adult areas? Shouldn't the adults with kids on the ship respect the adult areas and enforce in their own children that they shouldn't be in the adult areas? I mean, there already is no casino on board, and the kids have so many areas set aside for them. Why do the need to invade those adult areas? Even if it's just passing through. My kids always understood that they needed to avoid those areas when we were on any cruise ship.
We just left the Dream this morning and had a forward stateroom. The problem with this is that there are forces pushing everyone to the midship elevators, and let me tell you, they stink. (As in, they take forever.). On the Magic/Wonder, at least when you come out onto the pool deck in the adult area, you are on the sides so can walk through and be quite so obvious. On the Dream, the door spills out dirctly into the middle of the area. But back to my point, which is that the aft elevators on the pool deck come up in the middle of Cabanas. That was a total cluster just about all of the time. So if you want to avoid that, you go.....midship. As a result of either avoiding the Cabanas craziness or the adult area, lots of people go midship. That doesn't really make a whole lot of sense for using all of the routes available to keep crowds evenly dispersed. That said, if they really want to avoid the problem and have people reroute to keep kids out of the area entirely even for "passing through" DCL could post "reminder" signs in the elevator (or something like that) to advise people about what is on Deck 11 forward and that it is over 18 only.