Cruise rooms and kids

[Anonymous]

I book rooms with adjoining balconies. Honestly there are a lot of safety issues on cruise ships and I want to be sure I know where my kids are. We also have a buddy rule - kids need a buddy to go most places

[Anonymous]

We also had our kids have devices connected to the ship WiFi so they could message us, for instance if they got a strange knock on the door.

[Anonymous]

I'm going to go against the tide here and say a non-connecting room at these ages would make me uncomfortable. A cruise is not a hotel. But I wouldn't do it at these ages in a hotel either.

[Anonymous]

We had our 14 year old twins in an interior room about 10 rooms away from our balcony room on our cruise in December, and it worked out fine. The biggest rules were they had to check in our room at the end of the night and absolutely, under no circumstances, were other kids allowed in the room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the cruise ship will require you to officially put one adult in each room but can probably program your keys to let everyone in every room. Assuming you trust your kids I’d be okay with this but would prefer the connecting rooms. Note that the 14 year old will be in the teen club and those activities run late so you’ll need to set expectations and figure out how you’re enforcing the curfew.

This. I don’t think it’s technically allowed but we did do it at similar age. But the room was next door, not connecting. Connecting is better.

[Anonymous]

A 14 year old can babysit, and Disney doesn’t mess around with safety. I’d get them an interior room across from yours without worrying.

[Anonymous]

I also share your concerns OP, and will not be letting my 12 and 13 year olds share a room on our upcoming cruise. One adult and one kid per room. I worry about them doing something stupid and going overboard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just book the larger family rooms with the Murphy bed. So one teen sleeps on the couch bed and one sleeps on the Murphy bed and no one sleeps on the ceiling bed.

I find it too expensive to get two rooms.

This is the better option. But some people find it best to get two rooms for other reasons (like two adults snoring in one room for example)

[Anonymous]

I’d be comfortable with this as long as the room was very nearby (a few doors down or across the hall etc) , and did NOT have a balcony (which may be irrational…but I would worry)

When our kids were a little younger then that (maybe 12ish & 10ish?) we went on a cruise and just sucked it up in separated rooms. DH in one room and me in another. Honestly it was fine. There was time for couple time etc when the kids were at kids club. This was an extended family trip (lots of moving parts and not planned by us) or obviously would’ve booked a suite or family room instead. .