Disney lets you select your room. Just get them the interior room directly across the hall.

Don't book that fare where the cruise line selects your room. You could be many decks apart! Even if you aren't concerned for safety, that's not fun at all.

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.

No way.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP - thank you all for the reassurance! I was having difficulty with the balcony/water element and I didn't know what the common practice was. Thanks!

Get them an interior room across from your balcony room.

This is what I would do too. The interior room is cheaper and having the balcony attached to your room gives the kids an incentive to come over to your room more often.

I don't know about Disney, but many ships have cabins with connecting doors which can be unlocked when members of the same family are in adjacent cabins. Similarly, the dividers which separate one veranda from another can sometimes be removed under such circumstances. This is something to look into when selecting cabins.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP - thank you all for the reassurance! I was having difficulty with the balcony/water element and I didn't know what the common practice was. Thanks!

Get them an interior room across from your balcony room.

This.

Anonymous wrote:This is OP - thank you all for the reassurance! I was having difficulty with the balcony/water element and I didn't know what the common practice was. Thanks!

Get them an interior room across from your balcony room.

No I would have no issue with my 14 and 11yo sharing a room like that.

This is OP - thank you all for the reassurance! I was having difficulty with the balcony/water element and I didn't know what the common practice was. Thanks!

For us, we got two rooms because it was cheaper than the family suite options. (I'm sure it can go in the other direction sometimes.) We ended up on the same level but pretty far apart --- opposite directions from the main staircase. We were worried about the distance, maybe 25 rooms apart down the long hallways.

It was perfectly fine. It would have been better to be closer or adjoining, but it still worked out great with the two rooms.

The kids loved the independence, and we never had any issues with behavior. I think the kids were sufficiently wiped out with a lot of activities every day, and we let them go to sleep later than normal, so they had no energy at the end of the night to annoy each other or cause shenanigans. It was a great trip overall.

They aren’t going to fall off the ship, OP. I can’t imagine what else you’d be scared of that you aren’t scared of at a hotel.

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.

We always get two rooms on a cruise and haven't ever had any issues.

We are cruisers and I’m curious what you’re concerned about MORE on a cruise (they have literally nowhere to go), especially a DISNEY cruise, than at a hotel (where there are exponentially more places to go.) Can you break it down more so I can understand your concerns?

But yes, this is totally typical, especially at their ages.

We are taking a Disney Cruise for spring break for 7 nights and our family of 4 with two kids 14 and 11 are sharing two rooms that are near by each other but not joining. Even though we let the kids share their own room when we stay at a hotel I'm a little worried about it on a cruise boat - is it typical for parents to sleep in one room and tweens to share another bedroom on a cruise?