Royal Caribbean cruises - What onboard activities would your family pick? Win a £300 voucher NOW CLOSED

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The team at Royal Caribbean cruises would love to hear what onboard activity you’d pick should you find yourself onboard one of their cruise ships - and what would be top of the list of things to do for your partner, kids or parents?

Here’s the list of family activities available - brace yourselves, it’s a big list and what’s more it’s all included in the price!

~ Adventure Ocean® kids' and teens' club - wide variety of games, activities and educational adventures designed especially for different age groups from 6 months-17 years.
~ Cinema
~ Circus School
~ Dodgems
~ DreamWorks Experience*
~ Escape Room
~ FlowRider® Surf Simulator
~ Games Arcade*
~ Ice Rink
~ Indoor Sky Diving
~ Laser Tag - coming in 2018
~ Learn to Dance
~ Mini Golf
~ Reading in the Library
~ Rock Wall
~ Roller Disco
~ Splashaway Bay - Kids’ Waterpark
~ Sports Court - Basketball, Football and much more
~ Swimming
~ Teen Disco
~ The Perfect Storm Waterslides
~ Ultimate Abyss - Tallest Slide at Sea
~ Whirlpools
~ Xbox Games
~ Zip Lines

*additional fees may apply
Note: Onboard features vary by ship

So which would you pick and why?
What do you think your DP would choose to do onboard?
And what about the children - please say how old they are - what you think they’d love to try or experience onboard?

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Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

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I would pick the ice rink. Love ice skating!

DH would pick the zip lines.

Dd age 7 would probably pick reading in the library (book mad).

Dd6 would go for the water slides. She loves water and speeding through it!

We have booked out first cruise (with RC) for next year. Ds (15) has learning difficulties so I am intrigued as to what he will do - he says he is most looking forward to the ziplines and the xbox games, he would like the surf simulator but only if no-one else can watch him

I am looking forward to all of it. It's our first proper holiday for years and I am counting down the days already!

Myself and hubby and my 3 year old all love the sky diving. Hubby and I did it 2 years ago and then the little on wanted ago when we were back on last year.

She would also dearly love to go on the dodgems, the rising pod thing, the play centre in the pool but height or age restricted her (and the ice skating queue was just too long to bother with).

Generally the kids love the kids club, outdoor cinema, Jonny rockets (when they actual remember to dance - not done it the last twice we've been), the whirlpool, heated pools, hot tubs. They love trying new things at now 3 and 5.

Hubby would love a new ship to be permanently based in the U.K. with indoor pools (or hotter heated outdoor pool). We are bored of Indy and don't want to fly with young kids for the newer ships.

If it was up to me, we would literally do all of them so that we could experience as much as possible and to be honest, get our monies worth! If it was up to my DC (age 12) he would literally love in the Xbox games room.

I'd love to try the skydiving (if you can do it as a disabled person) and the spa - one extreme to the other.

My godchild (as I don't have a child of my own) is a 4yo boy and he would love all the water activities and the DreamWorks experience.

My kids are very into reading so they would go for it for sure.

7 yo girl would go for roller disco, Circus school, dance...
11 yo boy laser tag, zip wire, surfing
13 yo boy escape room, sky diving
DH would sit in the sauna
I think they would try these things as a novelty but what the whole family would come back to repeatedly would be pool/waterpark/slides

Roller disco! Used to love them when I was growing up!

I didnt realise that there was so much. Dont care about the children but I wnt to do the climbing, the zipwire, and the escape room on the first day and then we will see

I would do the Swimming & Learn to Dance
Hubby would do the Climbing Wall
DD would do Circus
Although would probably try a lot more.

Swimming and water park, it's all we need!

I would pick swimming as I find it very relaxing.
DH would pick basket ball as he used to love to play but doesn't have much time to do so any more.
DD is only 7 months old but I would pick Adventure Ocean® kids to keep her entertained on board.

mini golf is our family's holiday tradition so that would be a must

I love a bit of mini golf, and my son hates it when I beat him. I think he would choose the x box room, and all the sports but can also see him giving the indoor skydiving a go as he is an adventurous sort!

Dd age 12: DreamWorks Experience, indoor sky diving, surf simulator, rock wall, learn to dance, waterslides, waterpark, zip wire, xbox games.

Us: Escape room, surf simulator, library.

One cruise holiday not enough to do all, we need more than one holiday...

To add, we would try all these because they are either tried and tested as enjoyable activities or they are novelty activities and they are there, on offer.
What else can you do wit child/ren in the middle of the open sea/ocean in a ship?

We'd love the swimming. My daughter would swim all day if given the chance.

The climbing wall is always a firm favourite with my 12 year old. Being a bit of a daredevil she'd love all of the slides (she'd love the abyss - I'd hate it 😱)

As a family, we all love the mini golf and the outdoor cinema.

Flow Rider Surf Simulator, water slides and whirlpools (so basically all the water based activities) would appeal to us all, adults and children alike.

The DC (17 and 13) would also like the climbing wall and ice rink.

13yo DS would also like the Xbox games for times when he's physically worn out but still wants entertaining, DD would prefer the cinema.

I have to say I had no idea so many activities were available on a cruise!

Everything water based for my family! Swimming, whirpools, slides, waterparks. My lot are like ducks!

Wow! So much choice.
I'd love to go to a roller disco and revist my youth!
My husband loves the cinema. So he'd definitely choose that.
Dd loves swimming and will spend hours on holiday just playing in a pool so she'd choose Splashway Bay for sure!
It looks incredible, I wasn't aware there was so much choice on a cruise.

I'd go for the ice rink as not done ice skating for years. My imaginary DP would obviously choose to ice skate with me, because, you know, he's just nice like that. DS would definitely go for the dodgems.

I've got teenagers so we'd love to try:
The escape room and laser tag.

We would definitely choose to do the adventure club for babies and toddlers! We have just been away on a holiday but both find it really hard work with no childcare. So it will be fantastic to have a crèche that could occupy him for a couple of hours at least

I can't imagine how cool and different it would be to have an ice rink on a cruise ship!
Would definitely love to give that a go