savannahcouple Posted August 26, 2021 #1 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Well, anyone that is sailing with NCL between now and the end of the year is your chance. I just received word that the NCL policy is that no children will be allowed on board due to the 100% vaccination policy. If you have booked a cruise and are planning on bringing your children your about to receive a phone call from NCL letting you know you need to find a sitter, or get ready to cancel your trip. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAYKAY121 Posted August 26, 2021 #2 Share Posted August 26, 2021 5 minutes ago, savannahcouple said: Well, anyone that is sailing with NCL between now and the end of the year is your chance. I just received word that the NCL policy is that no children will be allowed on board due to the 100% vaccination policy. If you have booked a cruise and are planning on bringing your children your about to receive a phone call from NCL letting you know you need to find a sitter, or get ready to cancel your trip. I read none under 12 since they can be vaccinated at 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare kodos Posted August 26, 2021 #3 Share Posted August 26, 2021 I did a 2 week med at the start of the school year that only had 5 children on board the ship and they were all relatives of the entertainment. Cruise director announced it the first day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oteixeira Posted August 26, 2021 #4 Share Posted August 26, 2021 I mean, in my eyes if you are under 18 (needing to be supervised to get into adult venues) then you are a child, so I am sure there will be children on the sailings up until Dec. 31st, just not very young children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltsandknit Posted August 26, 2021 #5 Share Posted August 26, 2021 I was on a Princess cruise to Hawaii with only 5 children. It was a very quiet cruise for many reasons beyond no children Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
home-mom Posted August 26, 2021 #6 Share Posted August 26, 2021 My 12 year old is vaccinated and will be onboard with us this weekend. 😊 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nataly1982 Posted August 26, 2021 #7 Share Posted August 26, 2021 15 minutes ago, saltsandknit said: I was on a Princess cruise to Hawaii with only 5 children. It was a very quiet cruise for many reasons beyond no children What other reasons pls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruizinKittie40 Posted August 26, 2021 #8 Share Posted August 26, 2021 One can dream.... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savannahcouple Posted August 26, 2021 Author #9 Share Posted August 26, 2021 59 minutes ago, savannahcouple said: Well, anyone that is sailing with NCL between now and the end of the year is your chance. I just received word that the NCL policy is that no children will be allowed on board due to the 100% vaccination policy. If you have booked a cruise and are planning on bringing your children your about to receive a phone call from NCL letting you know you need to find a sitter, or get ready to cancel your trip. Ok so perhaps the wrong terminology was used, there will be no one under the age of 12 will be on the ships until at least 2022. I was just extremely excited because I won’t have to wait for my soft serve ice as long as I’m accustomed to. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodmanl1975 Posted August 26, 2021 #10 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Sounds wonderful to me 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare OrcaGirl Posted August 26, 2021 #11 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Of course, if the FDA / WHO / etc. approve the vaccines for the under-12 cohort shortly, as rumoured, then they would presumably be allowed to sail before the end of the year... That said, I'm looking forward to a mostly-child-free cruise in October. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAYKAY121 Posted August 26, 2021 #12 Share Posted August 26, 2021 15 minutes ago, savannahcouple said: Ok so perhaps the wrong terminology was used, there will be no one under the age of 12 will be on the ships until at least 2022. I was just extremely excited because I won’t have to wait for my soft serve ice as long as I’m accustomed to. I am excited because there shouldn't be 92 kids in one hot tub! 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamesatgsu Posted August 26, 2021 #13 Share Posted August 26, 2021 I was on the Jade last month. It was weird when we saw kids (12+ only), but because the kids clubs weren't open, I actually find it more annoying. Not that they were a problem, just they seemed so out of place that it annoyed me. Nice thing was ping pong tables were almost always available. Sports Court was almost always empty, but it closed at 5 so we never actually used it. Between the lack of kids and the lowered capacity, pools & hot tubs were almost never crowded (though it was too damn hot for the hot tub). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefMateJRK Posted August 26, 2021 #14 Share Posted August 26, 2021 43 minutes ago, goodmanl1975 said: Sounds wonderful to me I can recall several really annoying cruise passengers, but I believe that they were all older than 18. 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltsandknit Posted August 26, 2021 #15 Share Posted August 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Nataly1982 said: What other reasons pls? There was not a lot of on board entertainment during the day. It was a 15 day cruise with 8 sea days. Usually I love sea days but one can only learn to hula so many times. It was on a smaller ship but I was so bored. I don't plan on sailing Princess again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony s Posted August 26, 2021 #16 Share Posted August 26, 2021 A river cruise and it was heaven. We are on the Jade shortly and looking forward to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmamule Posted August 26, 2021 #17 Share Posted August 26, 2021 One the main features that has us looking w/interest at Virgin Voyages is their 18+ restriction. But, we don't have anything booked w/them yet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruizinKittie40 Posted August 26, 2021 #18 Share Posted August 26, 2021 55 minutes ago, karmamule said: One the main features that has us looking w/interest at Virgin Voyages is their 18+ restriction. But, we don't have anything booked w/them yet. They have very basic destinations, last I checked. I'm more interested in places like Greece, Italy, Spain, Antarctica, Ireland, etc. I would be all over a Virgin Voyage if the destinations were more diverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwimmingDragon Posted August 26, 2021 #19 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Our 13 yr old will be going with us in October. She is excited there won’t be kids under 12 on the ship. Also, Encore will be open for the teens, which will be good as well. I’m guessing there will only be a small handful of teens to the whole ship. However, she will be preoccupied with part of her day doing school work. Unless I can get her to do it all before during the weekend. Then again, I don’t want her getting bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victory2020 Posted August 26, 2021 #20 Share Posted August 26, 2021 There used to be a cruise line that had no smoking & no one under 18. Unfortunately, they went out of business -I would have loved to sail on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kollegekreed Posted August 26, 2021 #21 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Yup. Adult charter. Didn’t see a kid for 6 days til we ended up in a Port with another ship. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallux Posted August 26, 2021 #22 Share Posted August 26, 2021 1 hour ago, CruizinKittie40 said: I would be all over a Virgin Voyage if the destinations were more diverse Only so much they can do with one ship in service (I guess maybe two now?). They're just getting their feet wet (sorry), it will take time to get things organized in different places as they need to sort out provisioning and port space for anywhere they're home-porting and sailing to. That said - I can't say it was ZERO 'children' but there were very few on my April 2019 cruise. It was refreshing... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BirdTravels Posted August 26, 2021 #23 Share Posted August 26, 2021 6 hours ago, savannahcouple said: Well, anyone that is sailing with NCL between now and the end of the year is your chance. I just received word that the NCL policy is that no children will be allowed on board due to the 100% vaccination policy. If you have booked a cruise and are planning on bringing your children your about to receive a phone call from NCL letting you know you need to find a sitter, or get ready to cancel your trip. Lots of young teens running around the ship in packs,,, including kids as young as 12 ( ot younger if the are vaccinated). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonvoyagie Posted August 26, 2021 #24 Share Posted August 26, 2021 We saw few childern on our 3 wk Panama Canal Cruise in Jan 2020, in fact at 63 we were some of the youngins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare aubreyc1988 Posted August 27, 2021 #25 Share Posted August 27, 2021 5 hours ago, KAYKAY121 said: I am excited because there shouldn't be 92 kids in one hot tub! we are all excited about this haha! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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