Are Parent's allowed into Oceaneer's Club with their kids?

[GurtlerFamily]

I am just wondering if parent's are allowed into the Oceaneer's Club while their kids are in there playing. I have a little guilt just using the Oceaneer's Club as a way to (for lack of a better word) babysit my kids while on our family vacation and not playing with them while they are in there.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I am just wondering if parent's are allowed into the Oceaneer's Club while their kids are in there playing. I have a little guilt just using the Oceaneer's Club as a way to (for lack of a better word) babysit my kids while on our family vacation and not playing with them while they are in there.

Only during Open House hours. Those are roughly 1-2 hours once or twice a day (different times of the day).

Otherwise, the programming area is secured (only adults allowed are the CMs).

 

[MaleficentUK]

Yes, but only during Open House times listed in the Navigator. I had a great time being shown around by my daughter and doing activities during Open House.

 

[FigmentSpark]

Would you have guilt if your daughter was begging to go in without you? You could set rules like, only an hour at a time, maybe once in the morning and once later in the day, so she can have fun, but you get family time, as well.

 

[GurtlerFamily]

Yes, but only during Open House times listed in the Navigator. I had a great time being shown around by my daughter and doing activities during Open House.

Ok, so the open house occurs multiple times throughout the cruise? Not just on the first day to let the kids look around?

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Would you have guilt if your daughter was begging to go in without you? You could set rules like, only an hour at a time, maybe once in the morning and once later in the day, so she can have fun, but you get family time, as well.

This is very funny to me. An hour at a time??? When my kids were little, they would wake up on the ship at 6am and ask to go to the kids club. I had to explain it didn't open till 9am. Those three hours were torture as they asked again and again if it was 9 yet. LOL. I would drop them off, check in around lunch time if they hadn't called to come out, and they didn't want to leave. My youngest especially. Our 1st cruise with them we "forced" them out. It was a family vacation after all. But the next time we cruised and all cruises after, we realized it is their vacation too. So we let them stay as long as they wanted. Which was most times open-close with a few "one hour at time" visits with mom and dad. LOL

 

[Maggie'sMom]

Ok, so the open house occurs multiple times throughout the cruise? Not just on the first day to let the kids look around?

Yes. There's usually at least an hour or two of open house each day. After embarkation day, there will always be at least one side of Oceaneers in secure programming so you can drop your kids off if you want. But my experience is there will be an open house time on one side of the Oceaneers space each morning and often another hour or so in the late afternoon.

 

[PlanoNana]

The open house times will be great for the 5 yo to show her little sister around the club. Little Sis will be 21 months old on the cruise but thinks she can do everything her big sis does.

 

[SnowWhite2]

My kids would be sitting outside the Oceaneers Lab waiting for it to open and then I'd have to drag them out at midnight. We required that they have dinner with us and go to the show if they wanted before back to the Lab they went. My kids never thought of it as babysitting, it was fun and exciting and the best way for them to have a fantastic time on their vacation.

 

[Captainkate]

My husband and daughter keep a close eye on the navigator to see when the open house times are for the kids club. She won't go with out him. There are opportunities every day for them to go for an hour or two. They have plenty of time together there through out the sailing. It's a lot of fun!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

My kids love the club and would probably pout of we forced them out. We do things in the family club and see the shows together but other than that they love the clubs and sign themselves out to get ice cream and ride the aquaduck and then back they go! They love it all and it's their vacation too!! We pair it with WDW and this way we are together the entire time in the parks and the cruise is everyone's chance to relax in the way they want

 

[scgustafson]

Ok, so the open house occurs multiple times throughout the cruise? Not just on the first day to let the kids look around?

Unfortunately, they are getting way too frequent. Liked it much better when it was just the first day.

 

[MikeGS]

I was glad of the frequency of open houses, though our situation might not be so common. When we went on our cruise a couple of weeks back my youngest, Alexa was just over a week of being 3 (she turned 3 properly 2 days after we got home). There is only a year and 9 months between Alexa and her youngest brother Owen, and those two are nearly as close as twins. Leaving Alexa at nursery wouldn't have worked because she really misses playing with Owen (he's only just fully started school so they are used to being together) and without the open houses we wouldn't have had such good family play time together.

That said before the cruise I thought the boys (4 and 8) would probably only spend the odd hour there because we're usually together as a family so much. After the first day, when I dragged them out, with them begging to stay longer at 10pm after a great magic show where they got a little rubber fish each (Bluebert) I realised I'd underestimated it, and they spent quite a bit of time there.

The thing that impressed me so much was that the Lab and the Club both have some iPad games in, but whenever we went to get the kids, or went to an open house they were never on them, but always playing with the other kids.

 

[cheermom2four]

on our 7 night Western cruise it felt like either the lab or club was always in Open house mode. Kind of was a bummer in my opinion as my dd5 really hate the lab (geared more for older) and we usually had things booked during this time that we needed to utilize it. We did go with her during open house though just to see what she did and she would show us around and play etc. I agree, there were just too many open houses and it was for a couple hours at a time throughout the day one side or the other.