Cruising is an excellent vacation for your family. With today's hectic pace, a cruise provides you with much deserved quality time with your family. The ideal vacation should give you a balance between playtime with your children and relaxation time for yourself. The ship's staff has activities planned for everyone, as a family and individually. There are special kid's provisions supervised by professional youth coordinators to keep them entertained and allow them to make new friends. Then, mom and dad can relax and have some private time together. In short, your family can enjoy separate vacations... together.

When you're in the mood to vacation, you want the whole family to have a great time. That's why Carnival offers you and your children one of the most popular year-round programs on land or sea... Camp Carnival.

Camp Carnival has been designed with a wide range of activities for every age group - so even our youngest guests enjoy their carnival cruise to the max. It's no wonder more families choose Carnival than any other cruise line!

Celebrity Cruises

A Celebrity cruise is the perfect family vacation. That's because there is something for everyone, with plenty of ways for families to have fun together and lots of entertaining activities just for young people! And Celebrity's newest Sony Multimedia Cyberships are designed with the family in mind.

Best of all, on a Celebrity cruise the family fun goes from ship to shore, with three levels of excursions designed for the entire family. Level 1 outings - suitable for the entire family, including infants. Level 2 excursions are suggested for ages 6 and older, and Level 3 excursions - suggested for youngsters 12 and older.

Back on board, the family can enjoy Celebrity world class dining, and special children's menus offer finicky appetites a choice of favorites. With Celebrity, family cruising means fun for all.

Celebrity offers children's programs for four age groups as well as babysitting (for a nominal fee):

• Ship Mates (ages 3-6): Sing-Alongs, Face painting, Slumber Parties, & games.
• Celebrity Cadets (ages 7-10): Water sports, T-Shirt painting & crafts, Team Trivia, & Slumber Parties.
• Celebrity Ensigns (ages 11-13): Water sports, team games, scavenger hunt, & solve a murder mystery.
• Teen Program (ages 14-17): Water sports, Disco Madness, and video game & dance contests.

Royal Caribbean Cruises

Setting out on an adventure together is a great way for a family to have fun. But in case your kids want to spend time with their own age group, we created Adventure Ocean, with special programs for children ages 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, and 13-17.

You'll also a special children's menu for happier family dinners. And supervised after-dinner programs for when you need a little time alone. And don't forget the best things we do for kids: we send their parents back to them relaxed after a tranquil day on vacation.

Norwegian Cruise Line Family Cruises

You want to go here, your kids want to go there. You want to do this, your kids want to do that. You want to see one thing, they want to see another.

Thankfully, there is a place to find some common ground. Of all places, at sea—with a Norwegian Cruise Line family cruise.

For your kids, it's a nonstop array of interesting things to do, kids to meet, and activities that would tire you out just thinking about them. For you, on the other hand, it's nonstop stopping. Snooze on a beach chair. Get to that book that's been gathering dust. Or simply become a lizard on a rock in the sun.

After a lot of thought, our specially trained youth coordinators put together an impressive bag of tricks for your kids. They'll have shows, crafts, parades, sports, snacks, games, parties, stories, tours, and contests just to name a few. In fact, we've gone so far as to include activities for every age group.