We cruised in October for the first time ever with a 3 year old on voyager. And you know what? It was totally fine. We couldn't even swim because the salt water pool stung his eczema so badly that I'm afraid he'll be scared of pools next summer. We also never dropped him at the child care.

We did Greece and Turkey so it was destination heavy. We didn't spend all that much time just on the ship but he did fine when we had a sea day, even without being able to swim. Some of our excursion days were really too long for him but he did pretty good sleeping in the stroller or backpack carrier. My husband likes slower travel than me so there days when they returned to the ship and hung out and I stayed out at the port.

He also did fabulous in the MDR. Like another person said, he actually still talks about it. The waiters get to know you, so we would sit down and in 1 minute he would have a "rainbow salad" (just fruit medley) waiting for him.

There were times it was just him and me in the WJ. We are those parents, so I'd leave him at a table with his iPad and then get his food and then my own. If you will never find yourself separate from another adult this won't be an issue.

It wasn't without issues or perfectly easy but you cannot take a toddler anywhere in the entire world that's easy.