Anonymous wrote:Is there stuff to do for kids ages 8 and 11 on a Alaska cruise? If it’s cold is there an indoor water park?

If you do the one way, there is really only one sea day. Mostly you are out and about at the ports, get back on for dinner, then go to bed. On the sea day, my kids did the kids club for a couple hours, we did a trivia game as a family, and we also did a shipwide challenge in which we built a container to drop an egg off the atrium balcony using materials found on ship. (Our egg broker badly!). There were probably some other things that I’m forgetting (maybe an arcade? Or candle pin bowling?). It’s a very active cruise—very little downtime on the ship, which is they way you want it. Ports are close together so the ship stays in port for a very long time.

Celebrity cruise line.

We loved our two NCL Alaska cruises from Seattle, once with elementary age and once with teens. The first time, we did excursions (e.g. whale watching tour) and the second time we walked off the ship to go hiking (in Juneau and Ketchikan), along with a fantastic bike ride in Skagway. We love nature and hiking and didn’t really care about the onboard activities, but there was a lot to do on the ship. If your kids like nature, they will love the cruise and the chance to see bald eagles, whales, orcas, otters…. Definitely use cruisecritic to investigate ships and cabin configurations. We shared a balcony room with four and it was great.