Family Cruising

The fare you book is never the number you end up paying. That gap is bigger on a multigen trip than a couples cruise, more cabins, more excursions, more of everything, and it shows up differently depending on where you’re sailing. Between planning Caribbean trips and Alaska trips for the same extended family, the costs […]

Planning for my mom, my uncle, my cousin’s family, and whoever else joins that year has taught me that cruises are one of the only vacations built to actually handle a group that wants completely different things. It doesn’t mean the planning gets easier, it just means the disagreements have somewhere to go instead of

I don’t have kids myself, so this one’s built entirely on research rather than personal experience. If you’re planning a family cruise and trying to figure out which line’s kids club actually fits, here’s how the major programs stack up against each other. Royal Caribbean, Adventure Ocean Royal Caribbean’s Adventure Ocean is one of the

My mom and my uncle come on most of our family trips, and the planning shifts every year depending on how they’re doing that season. What’s worked for us isn’t complicated, but it took a couple of trips to figure out, and most of it comes down to building the trip around their pace instead

Planning cabins for a trip with my mom, and my cousin’s family when everyone’s along, has taught me more about cruise ship room layouts than I ever expected to know. The mistake almost everyone makes the first time is assuming “connecting” and “adjoining” mean the same thing. They don’t, and mixing them up can leave

I don’t have kids of my own, but I’ve planned enough family cruises to know the real challenge has nothing to do with the ship. Solo cruising is its own different calculation entirely, this is the opposite end of that spectrum. It’s coordinating a group where a five year old, a cousin in his forties,