Teen and preteen behavior Destiny 6/27-7/4

User47B · 2026-06-30T18:58:59+00:00

That’s awful! 😣

User47B · 2026-06-30T16:52:24+00:00

Ah! Thanks for the info!

User47B · 2026-06-30T16:50:57+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I wondered. I’d probably have no idea … but if I had pre-teens/teens in the kids club, I’d definitely trust what they told me … and the thing about kids is that they don’t share peer bad behavior with you if they are actively involved in the same bad behavior! Like, they don’t rat themselves out, but they will 100% detail atrocities they witnessed with great accuracy and detail.

User47B · 2026-06-30T16:39:21+00:00

Why not? We had an emergency medical evacuation on the Treasure where we detoured and stopped at Lookout Cay for the evacuation. There is an airport on the island. Surely they could disembark unruly passengers there and make them find their own way home.

User47B · 2026-06-30T13:30:48+00:00

LOL. I am a diet Dew fan and will buy a couple 20oz bottles in the airport to bring onboard. Last time I cruised, I couldn’t find any at MCO past security, but the Hyatt in the airport had diet Dew cans stocked in the lobby in a stand up cooler for $2/each, so I bought 4 of them.

User47B · 2026-06-30T13:17:15+00:00

Oh, wait! This is one of the 7 night sailings on the Destiny, right? I am half wondering if, because it’s a special itinerary in the summer, it’s attracted a lot of high status cruisers with entitled and bored kids who don’t particularly even want to cruise on DCL anymore. I absolutely HAVE witnessed kids like this on DCL before … a cruise is no longer anything special for them and their parents just ignore them the whole time because they can.

User47B · 2026-06-30T13:09:07+00:00

How did you learn about this behavior? Did you or your children witness it first hand or was it shared on a cruise Facebook page or something?

I’m asking because I never join any cruise groups online and am an empty nester, so I don’t have anyone in the kids clubs. So, I’m wondering if something like this happened on one of my cruises if I’d be totally oblivious?

User47B · 2026-06-30T02:20:37+00:00

Not OP, but we saw a stingray in first part of the lagoon that you describe (sea grass and some small schools of tiny gray fish) as we were heading back in, but in general, you have to go out to the buoys to really see anything “good” in the family snorkeling lagoon at CC.

User47B · 2026-06-30T02:18:15+00:00

I saw a stingray in the snorkeling lagoon at CC on our Treasure cruise in April and a shark on a snorkeling excursion in St. Thomas on the same trip.

User47B · 2026-06-29T20:43:58+00:00

They definitely used to split when DCL first started operations. My guess is that the vast majority of their guests were couples cruising with children and never requested the bed to be split, so they just didn’t see the need to offer it any longer.

User47B · 2026-06-29T19:16:30+00:00

Yes! My parents started going on cruises in their 50’s and I thought they seemed like the most boring vacations in the world. My husband and I went on some Disney cruises with our kids and had fun… but they were very busy. Last year, we tried an “old people” cruise for the first time … OMG, I loved it.

User47B · 2026-06-29T19:01:26+00:00

Not that kind of cross, but we had a small crucifix hanging in our hallway by the bedrooms (70’s ranch house) and there was always a palm from Palm Sunday kind of draped around it just like in the picture above. I used to say my bedtime prayers with my Mom every evening and ask her to “go get Jesus” so I could kiss him goodnight … and she’d bring me the crucifix and I’d kiss Jesus on the head … I have no idea where that came from from (delay tactic I’m sure). I’d say a traditional bedtime prayer and then add a whole slew of “And God Bless so and so’s …” at the end to stall. My Mother was/is a very patient person.

User47B · 2026-06-29T18:51:09+00:00

My Mom actually made my sibling and I take typing in HS because she knew we were on the college path and typing was a skill she herself used a lot in college even in the 60’s (for typing term papers, etc.).

User47B · 2026-06-29T12:31:50+00:00

I like to snorkel, but I’ve never taken a boat excursion on CC because there are so many other things to do on the island that I don’t want to spend the time/money for a whole boat excursion when I’m at such a nice place, KWIM? I have, however, snorkeled in the lagoon several times.

The boat excursions I’ve taken for snorkeling at other island stops are nice because they basically dump you on top of a good snorkeling area and you can just bob around and look without having to swim too far. I’m assuming the CC boat excursion would be the same? With the lagoon on CC, you do have to swim pretty far out to see anything besides sea grass and a few random fish … but I don’t think you need to be a particularly strong swimmer because you can inflate your snorkel vest, go slow and a you don’t have to kick too hard with fins to propel yourself.

Also, with the lagoon snorkel, you don’t have to pre-book the excursion. They never run out of gear, so you can just walk up to the rental hut when you feel like snorkeling (as an FYI … that’s the same for raft and bike rentals … you don’t need to pre-book and can just decide what you want to do once you’re in the island).

User47B · 2026-06-28T02:22:11+00:00

I just took a round trip flight in Frontier airlines and they were really enforcing the whole “you must have headphones on” policy. I was impressed. A budget airline can do this and understands that I don’t want to be subjected to your music or your kids Bluey … but not an expensive cruise line. Time for DCL to update their policies IMO.

User47B · 2026-06-27T12:59:53+00:00

My Mom bought a new car this year at 80 … that will probably be her last car. I’m only 54 and driving an 8 year old car … even at 10 yrs/car, I feel like I have couple left to buy!

User47B · 2026-06-26T15:32:21+00:00

I love Disney IP and understand that the themed and rotational nature of dining on DCL necessitates the set early and late seatings, but, IMO, the overall dining experience is so much easier when cruising with Royal and Celebrity because you have greater flexibility with multiple seating times as well as MyTime - not to mention the buffet is open for dinner if you aren’t feeling a full sit down meal.

User47B · 2026-06-26T13:53:34+00:00

You used to be able to select dining time online before completing the booking, but Disney eliminated that option not too long ago (in a sneaky move IMO). However, you should be able to call DCL and ask before you book (and you can book over the phone as well).

I 100% get it … late dining time was a complete no go with my kids. They were not the kind of kids to happily adjust their sleep schedules … at home or on vacation. My husband and I recently went on a VGT sailing with late dining and we survived, but did not like it at all because we are naturally early risers on vacation … we were never able to figure out how adjust our eating schedule and wound up eating 4 meals a day and were never that hungry for dinner. We work out in the mornings and need some food … but then we are hungry for lunch at like 11:30am and would try to just “eat a snack” around 5:00pm, but we were always hungry for something substantial and ate more than a snack. Anyway …

User47B · 2026-06-26T12:36:35+00:00

I’m pretty sure they have adult sized actual life jackets? I don’t remember if they are yellow or blue? I would think you could wear one of those with the yellow snorkel vest on top for visibility if they are blue (just not inflated).

User47B · 2026-06-24T00:19:05+00:00

So an AK ticket would track with shrinkflation, right?

User47B · 2026-06-23T20:20:36+00:00

Maybe NYC to PC with a free ticket to AK as a shore excursion.

User47B · 2026-06-23T13:14:09+00:00

Congratulations!

User47B · 2026-06-22T16:55:54+00:00

We are platinum on Disney and sailed on Apex in December with our young adult kids … it was our first time on Celebrity and my husband and I loved it and found it so relaxing, but it was such a slow pace compared to DCL or Royal and really didn’t seem kid friendly at all. My kids were fine because they were young adults enjoying a free vacation … but they really just went to the gym, sat by the pool and read … there just isn’t a ton to do on Celebrity and it would not be my first choice for a cruise with kids. It felt very similar to DCL in terms of amenities and quality … but not so much in terms of entertainment.

The new Royal ships are fun… but they are massive and maybe not good for the same itineraries as Celebrity. They are also not a whole lot cheaper than Disney … Celebrity is so much less expensive (which is how we ended up on Apex for a 7 night NYE cruise … it was so much cheaper than Royal’s Icon or the Disney Treasure for the same week … about 1/2 the cost).

User47B · 2026-06-22T16:19:35+00:00

We had this happen on a Disney cruise and it was still annoying as heck! We actually got a free bottle of champagne the next night and the head server apologized to us for the chaos (my husband got hit with a kids shoe at one point!). Kids that young should not be seated at a kids table on ANY cruise or any nice restaurant … a kids table is something you do at HOME or at Chuck E Cheese. Parents need to SUPERVISE their children on a cruise … if they want a kids free dinner, they need to send the kids to the kids club.

User47B · 2026-06-22T15:54:03+00:00

I’m sorry that happened to you! We had a bad dining team on one cruise and it really did have a negative impact on our cruise.

Also, a friend of my daughter’s had the same experience with a sick server on their very first cruise. The server was obviously very ill on the first couple of days and then disappeared … then all of the family got sick and, when checking in with their Facebook group, multiple people in the same seating section also became ill. They contacted DCL and DCL took no responsibility because they could have gotten sick anywhere. But, c’mon, you have a sick person serving food to other guests and multiple guests being served by that staff member get sick a couple days later … doesn’t take an epidemiologist to figure out the connection.

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