Disney Cruise Line - Something for All Kids

Disney Cruise Line is again reinventing onboard children’s experiences. Through a new approach to youth activities, kids can customize their cruise vacation. More youth activities are available and children choose experiences based on interest, not age. New youth activities and dedicated children’s spaces are available now on the Disney Magic and the Disney Wonder, and are coming to the Disney Dream beginning with the ship’s maiden voyage in January 2011.

Oceaneer Club and Oceaneer Lab are open to children ages 3 to 12 on the Disney Wonder and ages 3 to 10 on the Disney Magic. While Disney Cruise Line will continue to recommend activities that appeal to specific maturity levels and ages, the entire menu of offerings is open to every child. Children and parents select programs based on the interests of each child to create a customized and personalized experience. Children of different ages -- including siblings, extended family and friends -- can therefore participate in youth activities together throughout their cruise. The majority of children’s events and free-time activities occur within dedicated youth spaces on the ship and on Castaway Cay. As always, Disney Cruise Line youth activities are supervised by trained, experienced counselors. Specific program information is available to guests on the day of check-in at the Youth Activities registration desk in the Disney cruise ship terminal building prior to boarding, or onboard in the Oceaneer Club and Oceaneer Lab.

With more than 100 activities, events and programs, and with all youth activities open to all ages, children have more choices than ever before on Disney Cruise Line. Many experiences draw inspiration from classic Disney stories and popular Disney characters. During the new Cinderella’s Royal Ball, young guests can feel like royalty as Cinderella shows them how to be a prince or princess. “So You Want to be a Pirate” offers tales of the high seas, pirate training for young buccaneers and a special appearance by Captain Hook. Children are immersed in the world of Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story” during Toy Story Boot Camp led by Corporal Green.

At Ratatouille Cooking School, children work together to bake chocolate chip cookies. During the new Animal Tracking Series, children discover that conservation can be fun as they learn about endangered animals, create an animal tracking device and locate (plush) cotton-top tamarin monkeys using telemetry tracking on Castaway Cay. In Flubber, one of the most popular youth activities on Disney Cruise Line, children join Professor Goo in creating green goo and other concoctions.

Other onboard youth activities include programs such as Mouseketeer Training and Little Einsteins for preschoolers, challenge- and solution-games like Stitch’s Great Adventure and Detective School with Goofy, high-action group activities such as “Kim Possible: Cruise Control” and “The Challenge of Davy Jones,” and unstructured free time to enjoy the youth areas or play on computers.

While children are enjoying the youth activity areas, parents can enjoy the ship worry-free, thanks to an onboard paging service that allows kids to contact their parents anytime and anywhere on the ship. Plus, Disney Cruise Line has the longest operating hours for children’s activities.

Recently introduced, Dine and Play allows families to enjoy dinner together, then gives kids more time to enjoy youth activities while parents relax at the end of the meal. With Dine and Play, parents may check their children (ages 3 to 12) into evening youth activities during second seating in all of the main dining rooms. Families enjoy dinner together, then youth counselors whisk children away to play so the grown-ups can savor some time together in the adult-exclusive areas of the ship. For more information, call us for more information.