Oops... Week AFTER Thanksgiving

[tiff123]

I wanted to book a Thanksgiving cruise for my family (includes two boys 9 & 11).... Unfortunately with November 2012 having an extra week or something I picked the wrong week! The family is now totally excited for the cruise that leaves after the week of Thanksgiving and we are not interested in the itineraries/ships that leave the week of Thanksgiving.

 

Has anyone cruised with kids the week after Thanksgiving? Were there enough kids on the ship for your kids to have fun at the kids club?

 

 

***Please do not turn this into a discussion about whether kids should take time off of school for vacations.... I fully realize people have different opinions about this. ;)

[SSSLargo]

Tiff we sailed with our 4 year old on the Sunday after Thanksgiving this year on Freedom of the Seas. There seemed to be a fair amount of kids without it being crowed. We were told they had 1200+ Thanksgiving week!:eek:

[Julienatul]

We sailed this past year 2 weeks before thanksgiving and there were plenty of children. I was worried thinking there may not be any but it was great. I would say there were at least 15-20 kids per age group for the activities. Im sure there were many more onboard that is just what I counted when we signed my DD in and out of the kids camp. ON Carnival, RCCL, NCL there will always be kids of each age group on every sailing.

[1025cruise]

I've sailed the week after Thanksgiving.

 

There were not many kids on board, but there were a few families.

[kitty9]

On all my cruises after Thanksgiving, there were very few school age kids on board. Mostly infants and toddlers and maybe three or four school age kids.

[6rugrats]

I wanted to book a Thanksgiving cruise for my family (includes two boys 9 & 11).... Unfortunately with November 2012 having an extra week or something I picked the wrong week!

What? November has 30 days no matter what year it is. Thanksgiving is always the fourth Thursday in Nov.

 

I would think very few children on this cruise.

[J&Jcruisers]

We sailed on NCL the week after Thanksgiving this year and they said there was about 100 kids on board. We saw kids of all ages. The kids club was always active & ds always had fun.

[tiff123]

What? November has 30 days no matter what year it is. Thanksgiving is always the fourth Thursday in Nov.

 

I would think very few children on this cruise.

 

 

Silly me, I was thinking Thanksgiving was the last Thursday of November... like it was last year and the year before...

[6rugrats]

Silly me, I was thinking Thanksgiving was the last Thursday of November... like it was last year and the year before...

 

You have children. Never assume anything!

[crusinmama06]

Don't assume that there won't be any children. We are doing NCL Epic specifically because it leaves the weekend AFTER Thanksgiving. We want to spend Thanksgiving in Florida (haven't decided where yet). Then we will board Epic that weekend. :D

 

It makes a longer vacation for us because of my work schedule. We shut down for Thanksgiving. And then I am claiming my "week off" of scheduled PTO. So it is perfect for us.

[tiff123]

Thanks everyone for your replies! We are going to stick with this sailing. :)

[imjoyful2]

We have always sailed the week after Thanksgiving! (we homeschool ;) and prefer not many kids on board). Both cruises were on Explorer and I always ask the total # of kids when we board, first cruise had 80 kids (out of 3200+ people) and second had 60 (compared to the prior sailings of 1,000 kids!) IMO it was perfect! Just a few kids in each age group so they got plenty of one on one attention from the staff. My kids LOVED it! I don't think they would've had as good of a time w/a full ship of kids. ;)

[MamaParrotHead]

We've also cruised the week after Thanksgiving and there were plenty of kids onboard, but just not packed to the gills like the week prior. Should be fine!