On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:09:59 GMT, "Jean O'Boyle"
wrote:
>
>It looks as if the Norwegian Dawn, Norwegian Spirit, Norwegian Crown,
>Celebrity Zenith, and RCI Empress of the Seas are what is available in the
>ports that you prefer...There is also the Crown Princess to Bermuda during
>August...
I've taken my granddaughters (ages 9 and 6 now) on both Norwegian and
Carnival Cruises, and I thought that Norwegian's children's program
was far superior.
Carnival's program was far too fragmented -- by that I mean that some
activities started in one place and ended up in another, causing
confusion on a regular basis. We were constantly consulting the
schedule for where the kids had to be or where we were supposed to
pick them up. On Norwegian you dropped them off and picked them up at
the same place, and the counselors had the job of getting them to
places, not you.
On Carnival, the older granddaughter's group was further fragmented by
a system which required parents to consent to letting their children
go about the ship without supervision. If you didn't give this
consent (which, frankly, we weren't crazy about -- who's in favor of
kids wandering around the ship on their own these days?) then it cut
down on attendance for activities like scavenger hunts.
Norwegian didn't let them run around unsupervised. We felt that was a
plus.
Carnival did take the kids to shows in the evening, but in general we
wanted to all go together anyway, so didn't use that feature much. I
don't recall if Norwegian did this.
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