Family cruises are often memorable vacations. Cruise ships cater to all ages and many offer interesting and/or educational age-specific children's programs. With over 60 cruise lines and almost 300 cruise ships to choose from, selecting the right cruise line for your cruise vacation is often difficult. For most families, large cruise ships offer the greatest variety of activities and often provide youth counselors to enhance your kid's memories even more.
All of the large ship cruise lines (with most ships over 1000 guests) offer kid's programs for ages 3 through 17. Many also have onboard nurseries for babies.
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Carnival Cruise Lines
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Carnival Cruise Lines markets itself as the "fun ships", and the cruise line has a variety of family-friendly amenities at its fleet-wide Camp Carnival. Carnival has scheduled onboard programs for ages 2 through 14, special shore excursions for teens, and even baby sitting (for a fee). In addition to the kid's clubs, the Carnival ships feature plenty of onboard activities for families like water parks, the SkyRide, and Seuss at Sea.