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[thirdistheonewiththehairychest]

Hello!

We're tentatively looking into a cruise next October as DC have a two-week half term. However because we need to be very specific on dates and there are FIVE of us, I think it would be easier if I went through a travel agent.

Can anyone recommend one to talk to about getting a 5-berth cabin for the specific dates we need?

I use Iglu and Flights and Packages. You could either book one big stateroom, there are a very few that sleep five, a suite, or two interconnecting staterooms which is what I used to do.

With the interconnecting rooms, is it possible to have the kids together in one or them or do they insist on an adult on each?

Sorry, I did not read that back before I posted! Should have said:

With the interconnecting rooms, is it possible to have the kids together in one of them or do they insist on an adult in each?

Well they say you have to have an adult in each room and that is what is recorded on their systems. However that doesn’t mean an adult has to sleep there or have any of their belongings there.
I have two DD’s and when they were teenagers they were recorded as being one with me and one with DH. Obviously that didn’t happen and they just shared one of the rooms.

When my DC were younger we used to only use the door of our stateroom and apart from at night time we permanently had the connecting door open so it felt like a really big suite. It was handy to have two bathrooms and double the wardrobe space etc.
Then as the DC became older we all had our own sea pass card (key) so they could come and go as they please and the connecting door would be open less of time.
Then as they got even older we booked two balcony cabins next door to each other without the connecting door but had the divider between the balconies opened up so we all privacy but still a communal space.
I don’t sleep well with the DC in the same room so I preferred this set up to the couple of times I booked a suite.
Lots of families with two DC prefer to book one room, often they have bunk beds or two high bunks that pull out of the wall for night time and then to stateroom attendant folds them back
into the wall in the morning.
Other rooms have a double sofa bed or a sofa bed and a bunk.