Question about the kids club scheduling

[OoflowerbudoO]

It looks like we have to sign up for specific times for kids to use the kids club now due to covid. What does that mean when you have overlapping events? Like we have Remy dinner scheduled (which is a few hours) but the kids club will only schedule the kids for an hour or two? Or spa appointments etc? It was very easy during our pre-covid cruise to drop the kids off and go do these things. Curious how it works now. Thank you!

 

[lovingeire]

I'm also curious how this will work. We're on the Wonder, but planning to book Palo brunch and dinner and have no clue how that will work with our 8-year-old in the club. My 11-year-old can check-in and out of Edge, but I don't think he can check out/pick up his younger brother. Also do they book on the hour or half hour. How does that work for planning purposes?

 

[lanejudy]

Most folks have reported ability to book additional slots after boarding. The advanced sign-ups is to guarantee all kids get at least one spot. More are not guaranteed, but I suggest you stop by the Club on embarkation afternoon to see. Be aware that an adult will need to physically be present to check-out and back in again unless the child has check-out privileges. While not ideal this works ok for adult dining, probably not for the spa.

 

[Calantha]

Its about 2.5 hrs on sea days and 1.5 hrs on shore days to start. It also seemed to be different on different days. One time he arrived, he was the only one arriving. Another time, we had to line up in the hallway with about 5 other kids.

I think it was a mix of on the hour or half hour. Sorry, I didn't screen shot them!

As soon as you get on board, I would go to the kid's club to try to coordinate times. They offered us additional time, but DS wasn't interested and they also indicated that they could flex around scheduled events. YMMV.

 

[Bestdisdad]

On our recent sailing on the dream our kid was allowed to book back to back to back he was in the kids club for hours and had so much fun. Just depends on availability though.

 

[JimJoonie]

I haven't seen this asked anywhere, are they allowing meals at the kids club?

 

[melmel]

We did the 1/22 Fantasy and had no issues with kids club. We made sure to book the palo time first at the 30 day window and then did the other days. Once on board we could add a second booking each day. Then we found out that after he attended the first booking we could add a 3rd for later that same day. We only had 200 club aged kids on our ship so obviously that plays a part. Sea days were 2-1/2 hour slots and port days were 1-1/2. We found with those lengths and up to 3 slots a day he spent most of his time there just like the old days. I have seen others reporting that if you can't get booked when you have dining or spa ressies they can help at the club desk. Another thing to keep in mind is they're not feeding the kids in clubs right now (which I hadn't seen before boarding) so that shortened some of the time he would normally have been there, and we had to make sure we had a plan for him to eat before/while we were at palo.

A tip I saw someone posted awhile back that I had luck with was once my child was fully "checked in" at the 30 day window my husband was able so start booking ds' activities on another device using dh's account while I finished the rest of the paperwork on mine. I think it opened up right after I set up if he could check himself in and out and if he had charging privileges.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

I haven't seen this asked anywhere, are they allowing meals at the kids club?

No meals.

 

[unrequited23]

We were on the Magic, 1/31-2/5. Our kids club times were staggered, on the hour, 15 minutes past, on the half hour and oddly enough 10 minutes till the hour. There was a lot of availability day of. DS6 enjoyed the kids club, DS10 felt the activities were more geared to the younger crowd and didn't want to go back after the first day