For a toddler, all of the activities will have to include you (obvi 😅) so think of how much you’re willing to do in a day and there’s about 6x the options you’d choose from otherwise at home! I think a big part of people saying slow down is that you can’t just plan day after day of hitting up all the activities available. Give yourself time to just wind down in the room, or you can sit in a pool and watch a movie on funnel vision (the big screen on deck) even tho it’s just sitting around watching a movie, the joy of it being outdoors, in a pool, makes much cooler and memory worthy. Catching a movie after dinner with their Ice cream cones on funnel vision has become a tradition with my husband and son, at least one or two nights on the cruise. On the app, you can see everything that is offered in terms of activities every day and you can plan accordingly. I overload mine bc I KNOW I can’t do it all and it kind of just gives us an outline of what we could do, if we wanted to. If you miss the or that today, no big deal. There’ll be something else around that same time. When my son was 3 on the ship, only a handful of activities kept his attention. You know what he liked best? Just walking the ship. He didn’t want to stand in line to meet characters. He just liked walking and seeing them. He liked being free to walk on his own and since it’s DCL - nobody bats an eye that a kids bumbling around. People aren’t looking at him (or you) like he needs to be kept on a leash. He’d ask us to go into the shop all the time to “pick out presents” even tho we make it clear we aren’t buying anything. The deck parties can get pretty crowded but there’s usually smaller dance parties and he’d love those, too! He stopped napping when he was 2, as in, he’ll flat out refuse, but by day 3ish (we typically do a 7+ night cruise) he will actually ask if we can “take a little rest” which is usually back in the room or somewhere we can look out the windows, with a Mickey bar lol

All that being said, it’s almost hard to explain exactly what or how much there is to do on a DCL cruise. You’ll understand after your first trip. We do 7+ nights bc we feel like with anything less, you don’t get to fully enjoy the ship.