Platinum kids: why no substitute for Palo dinner?

[MomOTwins]

I always wonder if the prevalence of adult only spaces on the ship makes unruly children more of a problem. Adults spend all day in a “bubble” of the adult pool, dining, lounges, and adult trivia/match your mate, oblivious that their teens and tweens run amok around the ship disrupting the vacations of everyone else who chooses to spend time together as a family on vacation. Maybe if kids were allowed more places, they’d be better supervised or at least more restrained by the knowledge their parents might show up at any time and see what they are up to

 

[DCL58]

I always wonder if the prevalence of adult only spaces on the ship makes unruly children more of a problem. Adults spend all day in a “bubble” of the adult pool, dining, lounges, and adult trivia/match your mate, oblivious that their teens and tweens run amok around the ship disrupting the vacations of everyone else who chooses to spend time together as a family on vacation. Maybe if kids were allowed more places, they’d be better supervised or at least more restrained by the knowledge their parents might show up at any time and see what they are up to

As an adult only couple who sail several times per year, our issues with unruly children are the unsupervised teens AND the unsupervised young children who are allowed to cry thru dinner and shows, and run around the dining rooms screaming.

Kids can be unsupervised when their parents are right beside them.

 

[Girl of the South]

“Kids can be unsupervised when their parents are right beside them.”

Exactly!!

 

[jdb in AZ]

Then there's the entitled little snow flakes bossing their parents around while dining, or just out and about the ships. I really don't need that.

 

[DCL58]

Then there's the entitled little snow flakes bossing their parents around while dining, or just out and about the ships. I really don't need that.

I keep hoping DCL will follow thru with their recent question on their end of cruise survey and do some adult only cruises. Would be so great.

 

[jwalk03]

I keep hoping DCL will follow thru with their recent question on their end of cruise survey and do some adult only cruises. Would be so great.

In my mind the problem with adult only cruises is the areas on the ship that appeal most to adults are not getting bigger even though there would be tons more adults on that given cruise. Are the adults suddenly going to want to hang out in the oceaneers club that week instead of the district bars or quiet cove?

I don’t think this would be as enjoyable as some envision.

 

[Ralph&Pam]

In my mind the problem with adult only cruises is the areas on the ship that appeal most to adults are not getting bigger even though there would be tons more adults on that given cruise. Are the adults suddenly going to want to hang out in the oceaneers club that week instead of the district bars or quiet cove?

I don’t think this would be as enjoyable as some envision.

I wonder if there would be “tons more adults” on such a cruise in practice. What fraction of the staterooms on current sailings have only a single adult plus children as opposed to two adults with or without children? Solo adult travelers might actually increase on an adult-only cruise (we have single DD and DS who have each sailed on multiple DCL cruises as solo occupants of their staterooms), filling some cabins and reducing overall passenger count. Some couples might elect to sail an adult-only cruise with DCL instead of sailing Viking or Virgin as possible alternatives that are frequently at similar price points when I check their similar itineraries. Overall, there might be about the same number of adults with mainly two per stateroom, some solo travelers, and only a smaller number than usual with three, four, or five passengers in a single stateroom. I cannot even imagine sailing in a typical DCL verandah stateroom with a third adult myself, and when we have sailed on the same cruises with our single adult DD or DS, they always book their own staterooms and we simply link our reservations.