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Have you left your kiddos in the children's area after 8pm?
My kids are asking me questions that I cannot answer...
We will be on the Dream 3 night. We are traveling with our children and our grandchildren 6,5,4,and 3. My children are asking me about adult time on our short little trip. I am thinking that they want Mimi to take the kiddos and put them to bed while they go out. That is just fine unless...MIMI MAY WANT TO GO OUT I am wondering how the children's area would handle my grandkids age kids between 8 and midnight. This ole gal will probably be the first one ready to call it a night but just in case...I would like to know.
Thanks!!!
Our son, who is now 12, had his very first cruise when he was 4 and he has spent several evenings in the Kids Clubs on the ships. 3 year old who aren't potty trained get to use the nursery which has an hourly fee and requires a reservation typically. The older kids will get to use the Oceaneer's Club and is open until midnight and sometimes later with great programming for kids--even pajama parties.
Make sure you are on the list of people who can take and drop off the kids--which means you will need to know their secret codes that mom/dad give them when registering the kids for the clubs.
Have a great cruise!
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On our very first Disney cruise, our son was all of 4 years old. (He just left for college! ) One night we went to get him around 8 or so, and he didn't want to go. The CM's told us "Mom, Dad, there's a whole ship out there - enjoy it, he's fine!" After that, we didn't feel the least bit badly letting him stay late into the night. Normally they have some quieter activities where the kids can wind down. Movies, while laying on nap mats, for example.
Don't let your kids rope you into not checking out that whole ship out there! The kids will be FINE in the clubs!
Everyone seems to stay up a bit later on the Disney cruise. The kids clubs are full in the evenings. If you have second seating at dinner they will even pick them up 1/2 way through dinner and take them to the kids club so you can enjoy the rest of the dinner in peace.
We put our then 4 year old into he club do we could fine at Palo's. He took down his monkey and night night (muslin) which they kept until he wanted to sleep and they had acquire area with mats on which he slept til we picked him up 11pm. He had a fab time, as did we.
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My son is 10 and on our Fantasy cruise he stayed in the Kids clubs until 12 almost every night. Even when we picked him up he wished it was open even later. We had late seating at dinner so we would drop him off after dinner.
Our kids (aged 6 and 4 at the time) loved staying late at the kids club. It was hard to get them to leave. The activities there are great and they even attended Pluto's pajama party and colored in a pillow case late one night. They still have those pillow cases.
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Our youngest DS and our friends' kids said the BEST time at kid's club was after dinner! Simply because there were less kids there and they got more one on one times with CMs for games etc. The CMs came and collected kids from second seating of dinner (our kids were always ready and waiting) and one of our group collected them again at midnight - sometimes earlier if one of them wanted to go to bed they would tell the CM and the CM would message us on the wave phone. Very simple and no fuss. Enjoy your trip!
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I am wondering how the children's area would handle my grandkids age kids between 8 and midnight. This ole gal will probably be the first one ready to call it a night but just in case...I would like to know.
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) and one of our group collected them again at midnight - sometimes earlier if one of them wanted to go to bed they would tell the CM and the CM would message us on the wave phone. Very simple and no fuss. Enjoy your trip!
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