Disappointed!

[apathetic]

Well, in fairness, once you pass the sign that identifies the adult area, you are in fact in the adult area. There is no "Oh, you're 'just inside' so it's ok." And Cove Cafe is DEFINITELY an Adult-Only venue.

So no. An 8-year old should NOT have been in there.

True, she probably deserved the lashing for waiting while her mom got coffee. Of course, I see people reserving seats in the theater all the time. There is a sign, but nobody gets yelled at there. i see people try to sneak fruit off on pretty much every cruise I've been on. There are signs but I've never seen anyone get yelled at. Weird how people have no problem ripping into kids for walking around a ship but won't do the same thing to adults similarly flaunting the rules. I guess kids really should know better, but the adults should just get a pass.

 

[Dug720]

True, she probably deserved the lashing for waiting while her mom got coffee. Of course, I see people reserving seats in the theater all the time. There is a sign, but nobody gets yelled at there. i see people try to sneak fruit off on pretty much every cruise I've been on. There are signs but I've never seen anyone get yelled at. Weird how people have no problem ripping into kids for walking around a ship but won't do the same thing to adults similarly flaunting the rules. I guess kids really should know better, but the adults should just get a pass.

Oh I saw yelling about saving seats in Feb on the Magic. Some was at adults but other was at kids who had been sent to hold THREE ROWS (it was the same group every night).

The fruit off the ship is not DCL rules. If they are caught they are facing stiff customs fees.

And no, her mother should have been fussed at too - and told she would be served when she returned alone. Or she could get the same drink at the Vista Cafe.

 

[QuidditchChick07]

I hope that's not as bad as OP was describing. This trip is expensive, and if the adults only area is adults only in name only, I'm going to be . I don't mind kids passing through to get from point A to B as some of you have described, or even waiting quietly for an adult to get a coffee to be honest, but I do mind if they are being disruptive and their parents don't do anything to stop it.

 

[wilkeliza]

Yeah, they deserve it. Hey, kid on a Disney cruise, you deserve to be called names for walking (not stopping) through an area next to an elevator. Because nothing ruins my cruise more than a kid walking past me on the way to the ice cream machine, on a Disney cruise. Like I said, I tell my kids to walk around if they accidentally come out on that side of the ship. I wouldn't want them acting like the adults on a Disney cruise. The next thing you know, kids will be reserving entire rows in the theater, sneaking fruit from the buffet off the ship and carrying a glass of wine into the kids club during pickup.

I didn't say the deserve to be yelled at and called names. I said if they happen to hear adult language or an adult conversation well they are in the adults only area. Of course no child deserves to be yelled at by an adult for walking through but at the same time CMs have the ability to ask kids to move along and adults in the area have the right to ask CMs to use that ability. Again I was speaking about hearing non-Disney language not having that language directed at them.

 

[elvispursley]

I totally agree that if my kids are passing through with me and happen to hear adult language, oh well. My kids are too oblivious (like their dad) to even notice. But if little jr's ears are that sensitive (and mom/dad are too sensitive), then yes, by-pass this area. But it is not ok, EVER, to scream at a kid for being somewhere they shouldn't (adult space, saving seats, etc)--notify a CM to address it; that is what they get paid for!

 

[tinkerone]

One thing I have yet to see addressed is the fact that more times than not its the parent that causes the issue. They are the ones who feel privileged enough to try and get 'pumpkin bear' a seat at the adults only places. I strongly doubt that a 8 year old would walk into an adult session and not turn around and just walk out. Its usually because mom and dad feel their child is the exception to the rule, their child is well behaved and that should be noted. Blahhhhh.

I was relaxing at satalite falls one time, it was pretty full up there. A dad brought his child (7 or 8ish) up and told him to play in the falls. The child was having a grand time running the circle and splashing the water but the folks trying to relax or read a book were not amused. A CM came over, on his own, and told dad he had to take JR and leave the area. Dad did not like the suggestion and told the CM no. Not sure what all was said after that however dad took Jr and stormed off. It wasn't JR's fault, he was just doing what dad told him to do. That's one example of the adult/child privilege I have witnessed. I've seen children asked to leave and they normally just go, I've seen adults asked to take their children and there is an argument. I know it doesn't happen this way all the time but the majority of what I have seen has been this.

As to walking through the adult area to get to the kids pool or food venues, who cares?? If its a straight walk through why would it bother me? I have better things to worry about and since I'm on vaca I don't want to think of those things either. I blame DCL for their bad design. Now, if a child decides to stick around.......different story.

 

[QuidditchChick07]

The child was having a grand time running the circle and splashing the water but the folks trying to relax or read a book were not amused. A CM came over, on his own, and told dad he had to take JR and leave the area. Dad did not like the suggestion and told the CM no. Not sure what all was said after that however dad took Jr and stormed off.

As I said in another thread, I have little faith in humanity these days. This "me me me" mentality hacks me off more than any kid being in the adult area. Yeah, it's "YOUR" trip, but it's MY trip too. If you want to have full run of a ship and do whatever the hell you please with no regard to anyone else, get your own ship to do it on. If that shoe was on the other foot and someone had brought their kid in and disturbed his downtime, you know that guy would have been in the CM's face to do something about it.

 

[darnheather]

I'm also curious about these adult only activities that children were allowed to participate in. I didn't see a single under 18 in any adult area on the Magic. To others, I wouldn't worry about adult only areas being done away with.

 

[Neptune's Fork]

One thing I have yet to see addressed is the fact that more times than not its the parent that causes the issue. They are the ones who feel privileged enough to try and get 'pumpkin bear' a seat at the adults only places. I strongly doubt that a 8 year old would walk into an adult session and not turn around and just walk out. Its usually because mom and dad feel their child is the exception to the rule, their child is well behaved and that should be noted. Blahhhhh.

I was relaxing at satalite falls one time, it was pretty full up there. A dad brought his child (7 or 8ish) up and told him to play in the falls. The child was having a grand time running the circle and splashing the water but the folks trying to relax or read a book were not amused. A CM came over, on his own, and told dad he had to take JR and leave the area. Dad did not like the suggestion and told the CM no. Not sure what all was said after that however dad took Jr and stormed off. It wasn't JR's fault, he was just doing what dad told him to do. That's one example of the adult/child privilege I have witnessed. I've seen children asked to leave and they normally just go, I've seen adults asked to take their children and there is an argument. I know it doesn't happen this way all the time but the majority of what I have seen has been this.

As to walking through the adult area to get to the kids pool or food venues, who cares?? If its a straight walk through why would it bother me? I have better things to worry about and since I'm on vaca I don't want to think of those things either. I blame DCL for their bad design. Now, if a child decides to stick around.......different story.

It's terrible that people feel so entitled as to act like that. In the old days (obviously talking a couple hundred years here) a person could get thrown overboard for disobeying a crew member in authority's order.

 

[jiminy14]

For the first time in six cruises, I saw some tweens on the beach at Serenity Bay. One was lying in a hammock near the bar and the other was all the way down at the end of the beach with his family. The one at the end of the beach would hightail it up to the cabana area when he saw one of the lifeguards walking down the beach and stay there until they walked back. Finally one of the guards caught up with him and the entire family packed up their stuff and left.

 

[jiminy14]

Deleted. Double post.

 

[tink1970]

Entitlement [parental +child] + design flaw = kids in adult areas.

 

[soniam]

We did our first DCL cruise after only having been on Royal Caribbean. I too was really disappointed in the adult areas, or really lack thereof. However, I think Remy is the best paid restaurant any any cruise ship. I also really enjoyed some of the bars, like Skyline. However, I really like how the old Royal Caribbean ships have bars and lounges that are just open for good people watching. We still loved the DCL cruise though and felt it was the best choice for us as a family, at least in the Caribbean. We will be doing another this summer. However, when it came time to book our adults only, anniversary cruise, we chose Celebrity, partly for the itinerary (Southern Caribbean), partly for the large amount of adult food and entertainment, but mostly because we got a suite, premium drink package, and upgraded internet for less than we are paying for our Disney cruise with a regular balcony and 3 people. I will miss Remy though. Maybe I'll have to eat there twice this summer to make up for it

We respect the adult areas on all ships. We only accidentally took our son part way through the one on Fantasy once. However, we back tracked and went to the floor below. I needed the exercise anyway, so that I could eat something from the Cove Bar later

 

[elvispursley]

One thing I have yet to see addressed is the fact that more times than not its the parent that causes the issue. They are the ones who feel privileged enough to try and get 'pumpkin bear' a seat at the adults only places. I strongly doubt that a 8 year old would walk into an adult session and not turn around and just walk out. Its usually because mom and dad feel their child is the exception to the rule, their child is well behaved and that should be noted. Blahhhhh.

I was relaxing at satalite falls one time, it was pretty full up there. A dad brought his child (7 or 8ish) up and told him to play in the falls. The child was having a grand time running the circle and splashing the water but the folks trying to relax or read a book were not amused. A CM came over, on his own, and told dad he had to take JR and leave the area. Dad did not like the suggestion and told the CM no. Not sure what all was said after that however dad took Jr and stormed off. It wasn't JR's fault, he was just doing what dad told him to do. That's one example of the adult/child privilege I have witnessed. I've seen children asked to leave and they normally just go, I've seen adults asked to take their children and there is an argument. I know it doesn't happen this way all the time but the majority of what I have seen has been this.

As to walking through the adult area to get to the kids pool or food venues, who cares?? If its a straight walk through why would it bother me? I have better things to worry about and since I'm on vaca I don't want to think of those things either. I blame DCL for their bad design. Now, if a child decides to stick around.......different story.

Amen! The self-entitlement is crazy ridiculous on DCL, partly, I believe, due to the crazy jacked-up prices people end up paying. I think people feel that if they are paying $14, 000 (taking the summer prices for a family of 5 on a veranda), why shouldn't they have free run of the ship?? After all, this is Disney and they're in the business of making "dreams" come true...they're not going to say "no" to me, are they???

For the first time in six cruises, I saw some tweens on the beach at Serenity Bay. One was lying in a hammock near the bar and the other was all the way down at the end of the beach with his family. The one at the end of the beach would hightail it up to the cabana area when he saw one of the lifeguards walking down the beach and stay there until they walked back. Finally one of the guards caught up with him and the entire family packed up their stuff and left.

Disgusting!! I'm sure this "me"-family wanted a family cabana, but given they are next-to-impossible to score, and saw that a cabana on serenity bay was available, booked it. "We'll just hide Timmy-pooh in the cabana whenever a CM comes our way." UGH!!! I think in instances like this, when people are blatantly breaking the rules, they should be kicked out of the cabana and charged a penalty for taking it away from someone who could've actually used it

 

[Ed134]

I was on the same cruise(3/25-4/1), our stateroom was closest to the forward elevators. On the first day we took the elevators to 11 to go to Canbanas. When we got off, my daughter realized we were in the adults section of the ship and she was afraid to walk through. After that she insisted we take the midship elevators when going to 11. The few times I passed through the adult section, I never saw any children by the pool or the Cove, YMMV

 

[CVICU Nurse]

What adult only activities were the children participating in?[/QUOTE

It was all of the adult only trivia, clearly marked 18+ in the Navigator and on the app.

 

[CVICU Nurse]

So the kids being in the adult area was the only bad thing and enough to cause you to search out another cruise line? What part of the adult deck did this happen? I remember on the Fantasy that the 'upper' portion of the deck forward, you'd never see a kid up there, but then in that Cove pool area because of the pass through aspect it was not unusual to see them in that part. The deck 13 forward is pretty big though and you wouldn't run into any kids there.

Yes, it does make me think of searching out another cruise line. Like I stated earlier, we did enjoy the cruise for the most part; The activities for our kids, the food, the service at the restaurants, the stewardess who took care of our never ending mess of a room! We also did venture up to deck 13 forward and were sunbathing and reading, enjoying the quiet, and were disturbed on a couple occasions by loud children running around- and they were up their with their parents, which I thought was very rude. Some of the adults weren't much better, especially on pin trading night in the atrium where my little one was run over, and skipped in line by adults.

 

[TestingH2O]

I was on the same cruise(3/25-4/1), our stateroom was closest to the forward elevators. On the first day we took the elevators to 11 to go to Canbanas. When we got off, my daughter realized we were in the adults section of the ship and she was afraid to walk through. After that she insisted we take the midship elevators when going to 11. The few times I passed through the adult section, I never saw any children by the pool or the Cove, YMMV

This happened to me too. We were staying forward and not on 12 for the first time. The first day or two I took the forward stairs without thinking. DD4 figured it out quickly though and we had no issue just going up using the midship stairs instead. It's not like we didn't have to go to midship anyway!

 

[CVICU Nurse]

For the first time in six cruises, I saw some tweens on the beach at Serenity Bay. One was lying in a hammock near the bar and the other was all the way down at the end of the beach with his family. The one at the end of the beach would hightail it up to the cabana area when he saw one of the lifeguards walking down the beach and stay there until they walked back. Finally one of the guards caught up with him and the entire family packed up their stuff and left.

Were you on this same cruise? My husband and I also went to Serenity Bay since one of our girls wanted to hang out in the kids club on the island and the other did the teen excursion. Right after we arrived I saw a teen hanging out in a hammock.

 

[CVICU Nurse]

One thing I have yet to see addressed is the fact that more times than not its the parent that causes the issue. They are the ones who feel privileged enough to try and get 'pumpkin bear' a seat at the adults only places. I strongly doubt that a 8 year old would walk into an adult session and not turn around and just walk out. Its usually because mom and dad feel their child is the exception to the rule, their child is well behaved and that should be noted. Blahhhhh.

I was relaxing at satalite falls one time, it was pretty full up there. A dad brought his child (7 or 8ish) up and told him to play in the falls. The child was having a grand time running the circle and splashing the water but the folks trying to relax or read a book were not amused. A CM came over, on his own, and told dad he had to take JR and leave the area. Dad did not like the suggestion and told the CM no. Not sure what all was said after that however dad took Jr and stormed off. It wasn't JR's fault, he was just doing what dad told him to do. That's one example of the adult/child privilege I have witnessed. I've seen children asked to leave and they normally just go, I've seen adults asked to take their children and there is an argument. I know it doesn't happen this way all the time but the majority of what I have seen has been this.

As to walking through the adult area to get to the kids pool or food venues, who cares?? If its a straight walk through why would it bother me? I have better things to worry about and since I'm on vaca I don't want to think of those things either. I blame DCL for their bad design. Now, if a child decides to stick around.......different story.

You hit the nail on the head! The children we encountered in the adults only areas were usually there with their parents!