Do a short cruise. You can do 4 nights on Disney and there will be plenty to keep your kids happy.

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Anonymous wrote:It's SO BIG you won't notice it moving.

Unfortunately this isn’t true. I’ve had good sea days with clear water on large cruise ships where I wasn’t sick but could absolutely feel the movement, but I’ve also been in stormy weather where I was miserable. The problem is you can’t predict what you’ll get, so you need to be prepared with meds in advance.

This is the right response. I spent most of the only cruise I’ve been on wanting to die in my cabin (couldn’t even make it to open air) while wishing I could dry heave and/or nibble a cracker. I was actually better in rougher seas because at least my body and brain agreed on what was happening. It was the calmer times that did me in- the movement was subtle enough that my brain could not process it and went straight to seasickness.

Anonymous wrote:ask your doctor to prescribe scopalomine patches. they are good for a few days, help with seasickness and dont make you just want to go to bed like dramamine. i dont get seasick but my family use them for scuba diving.

Test your body’s reaction to scopalamine patches before you go on a trip. They can cause blurry vision. In my case, so blurry that I couldn’t read or do anything on my phone and wouldn’t have enjoyed myself on a cruise.

My child and I have unpredictable seasickness that hits in situations people deem to be seasick-proof. We use chewable meclizine and the drowsiness from it takes way longer to set in than it does for Dramamine.

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Anonymous wrote:ask your doctor to prescribe scopalomine patches. they are good for a few days, help with seasickness and dont make you just want to go to bed like dramamine. i dont get seasick but my family use them for scuba diving.

I didn’t think kids could get these? My pediatrician said the kids could bring bonine (12 and up) and children’s Dramamine. I myself got the patch but never needed to use it, thankfully.

PP here. not sure how young your kids are but my pediatrician prescribed them for my 12 YO for a trip over Christmas, no questions asked.

Anonymous wrote:It's SO BIG you won't notice it moving.

This. But I take Bonine every day because it also reduces my hangovers.

Definitely stay in a middle of the ship stateroom with a balcony so you can get fresh air. The front of the ship is the roughest. I put off cruises for years bc I would get car sick. We ended up going on a 4 night Disney cruise, and I only felt a little dizzy for the first hour. I was fine after that and took no medication. We're planning our third cruise now.

You can get some information on the cruise critic website. You don't want to cruise out of certain ports or on certain routes.