Child friendly cruises
Taking younger kids on our child friendly holidays
6 months to 8 years
Base Camp
Our holidays are designed to be super child friendly. Cruises welcome youngsters of all ages with enthusiastic, fully qualified youth staff on hand at our Base Camp centres. Kids can enjoy ballparks, Playstations, films, games and activities and the centre includes a special outdoor family play area with netted railings and a paddling pool.
Our child friendly cruises offer daily kids’ programmes between 9am - midnight, dependent on age, with breaks for lunch and dinner, which are free whilst one parent/guardian stays on board.
6 months – under 2 years
Babies and toddlers are welcome at Base Camp as long as a parent or guardian stays with them. During peak season cruises you can also enjoy some ‘mum and dad’ time ashore and leave your little ones in the safe hands of the youth staff*.
Night Nursery
Our child friendly cruises are parent friendly too! If you fancy a meal as a couple in the Bistro without the kids, followed by a boogie in the nightclub, then you can leave them in the supervised night nursery in Base Camp. Open until 3am for children aged 6 months to 5 years (5-8’s are also welcome if space permits), it’s free until midnight†. There’s also an in-cabin baby listening facility available via the cabin telephone which means you can call your cabin from anywhere on the ship to check on your children.
2-8 years
(2-4 years and 5-8 years in peak periods)
There's so much to do at Base Camp, it couldn't get more child friendly. On cruises with Ocean Village your kids will find it hard to be bored and they’re sure to work up an appetite for the kids tea, served daily from 5.15-6pm. Typical activities include:
- Talent shows
- Face painting
- Musical madness
- Ballpool play
- Colouring competitions
- Playdoh fun
- Outside play
- Quiz time
- Arts and crafts
- Sweetie hunt
- Dance competition
- Feature movies
- Story telling
- Pirate Day
*A small charge applies. †Between midnight-3am costs are £3 per hour and £2 for each sibling. Prices are subject to change.
