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Personally I'm glad they're strict about it. All it takes is one drunken temper for things to turn bad quickly with knives. What do you need one for on the ship anyway?

1 - No formal nights on Celebrity. There will be some "Evening Chic" which can be formal or can remain smart casual or anything in between. 2 - Possible? My biggest pet peeve with most lines is they have these theme nights that only insiders know about so first timers on a line are clueless. Say what you will about Disney, you know that there will be a Pirate Night (or other theme if in a different region) and you can find out which night it is. You're only caught off guard if you did no research in advance because it's right there on the calendar. No one has to look stupid because they didn't know. 3 - At this time no testing or screening. I don't think any lines are doing it currently. (I think Disney was the last to remove it.)

Who is enforcing at an all-inclusive though? I’d imagine their employees are just as hesitant to do anything to result in parents complaining that their little dears are being stifled - and worse that someone was “rude” to them for merely asking them not to run. Again, it bottom line depends on the parents and if they are willing to parent.

It shouldn't be "expected" anywhere. But my guess is that the parents at the land resort were doing more parenting than the parents on the cruise. I guess they figure there's only so far they can go on a ship so they don't keep as tight a reign on them, but I don't know. At any rate, it comes down to parenting rather than type of vacation. I'd guess there have been some 5 star resorts where parents are more "hands off" and kids run just as there have been cruise ships where parents were more aware of what their kids were doing and stop silliness.

It's not that uncommon for there to be a medical emergency requiring a ship - any ship - to divert to a port to evacuate a patient. It's hardly worthy of a "spotlight".

Thank you!

Thank you for sharing! The pictures are gorgeous!! If I may ask, what are the prices like for excursions from the ship? I'd like to visit Japan some day, but as someone who doesn't eat fish or most seafood (cooked or raw - and definitely no seaweed), is gluten-free, and doesn't eat melon, a cruise where I've got food I can eat on board seems the safest (and least hunger-inducing) for me. I'm looking at possibly next summer - I have no issues with an inside cabin - but am curious about the pricing on excursions. Just ballpark figures are fine. thanks!

The airport is on the opposite end of the island from Mallory Square. IF the ship were to dock on the military base, you'd have to hop a shuttle to get off-base before you could get a taxi or Lyft or Uber to the airport. I'd be more concerned with the return time of the excursion since with a private excursion if you miss the ship, you're SOL.

You'd need to take a Lyft or Uber there. IDK if it's near where SkyDive Key West is, but that was probably 20 minutes at least. Mallory Square docking means early departure (like the 3pm one) because the ship has to be away before sunset.

Not for glass bottles! Have you seen the way luggage gets tossed around and piled up. Those bottles break, you're not only out all the drinks you were trying to bring aboard but you're going to be paying for cleaning or replacement of every item your drinks and broken bottles damaged. The rules say beverages you bring must be carried on. Just because the porters will take it doesn't mean it's right. They'd take anything you slapped a tag on if you tipped them enough.

Has what? Given that this is a Celebrity board, I'm guessing most of us have no idea what Virgin's acronyms are.

Wonderland is much more like Eden than LPC.

He was actually taught that by his parents. They told us that in his IEP meeting.

So parents need to have consequences. To just say "they don't always listen" and throw your hands up is doing them a disservice. I teach special education so I know how they don't always want to listen. BUT I also know that I have students who have in the past run from their parents, but with their parents patiently working with them they have learned. I have one - a particularly "busy" kid - who has been taught not to run in the street and will actually point and say "No! Car! Die!" But yes - if someone is just saying "they don't listen" and throwing up their hands rather than teaching their kids to listen, a cruise may not be the vacation for them. Because there are rails to climb besides the ones on the balcony.

Well said!! I don't have kids, but I've never understood the "no balcony because of my kids". First, as has been said, there is always a lock up high (or at least on every ship with balcony cabins I've been on. Second, the door can be tough for even adults to open. And third - and most important - WATCH YOUR KIDS! And teach them to listen when you say no!