DESTINATIONS — CRUISE


Slip, sliding: NCL has twin twister water slides


All the family-friendly cruise lines have kids’ and teen clubs that lay on age-related activities such as pizza-making, arts and crafts, pool games and discos from morning ’til night.


Mostly they are free (Norwegian


charges on port days) but all have a late-night babysitting fee of around $6 per child per hour. The clubs used to be the main


draw for kids, but these days there is so much more. Carnival’s Magic, Breeze and Sunshine have ropes courses and water slides, Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas and Freedom- class ships have FlowRider surf simulators, ice-skating rinks and rock-climbing walls. The Oasis-class ships have all that and also zip wires and full-size carousels. Norwegian Breakaway has an


Magic monsters: Disney’s Oceaneer club features an area based on Monsters, Inc


aquapark with two Free Fall slides (you start standing up and


are ‘dropped’ into the slide) and twin twister


water slides. The ship also has a ropes course with swinging beams, nets and a plank that extends


eight feet over the side of the ship. There’s more of the same on the new Norwegian Getaway, which is sailing the Caribbean from Miami and costs from £6,742 including flights for two adults and two children aged two to 11 sharing a family balcony cabin for seven nights departing July 18.


Disney Cruise Line’s newest two ships have an AquaDuck ‘water coaster’ and ‘enchanted’ artwork that doubles as a detective game. MSC Cruises’ MSC Preziosa, sailing the Mediterranean this summer, has a 120-metre long water slide, a Formula 1 racing car simulator and 4D cinema. TW


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