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

[AnnMumsnet]

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?

Add your comment on this thread and you will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will get a £300 voucher for the store of your choice (from a list)

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

Standard Insight Terms and Conditions Apply

My children would love all the water fun, xbox games, basketball and indoor sky diving. Reading in the library and the escape room sound bliss for hubbie and I! Can' believe there is so much to do on board! x

Waterside, whirlpools, slides. Generally anything involving water or slides. I can't help feeling it's a bit strange to be in water on a boat though!

swimming - great fun and keeps you fit

We would love swimming and learning to dance.

DD is a daredevil so would love anything called the Ultimate Abyss!! Watersports in general would be great for both of us, I'd love to try the surf simulator... Have always wanted to learn to surf!

Ice skating - though i am intrigued if it's real ice or a plastic rink

I like to think I'd choose the indoor sky diving but if I had an hour or so spare to read on my own in the library, that would be bliss.

Probs the dreamworks experience for the kids.

DD (8), DS (6) and DH (37) would all choose Circus Skills.

Which is great, as whilst they were clowning around, I'd be reading in the library!

Definitely the ice rink, my 4 year old loves it! My husband and I would probably prefer the pool and cinema though
Seems like there is plenty on board for kids, didn't realise this was what cruises were like, always thought of them as something to do when retired

My teen dc would like most of those. In particular:
Zip wire
Swimming
Whirlpool
Reading in library
Cinema.
Laser tag
Roller disco.
Mini golf.

Splashaway bay - the kids would love it.

I would definitely be joining the 'learn to dance' classes and my husband would be taking part in the learn to surf sessions. The children would try everything, but particularly the rock wall climbing.

Hi,

Love the idea of a cruise - didn't realise there were so many on board activities!

I would choose Learn to Dance, Zip Wire and Circus School (it's never too late to learn!)

DP would probably do the Zip Wire, Surf Simulator and water slides.

Children (16 and 19) probably the same as DP... and all of the other active activities!

Looks like I'd going to Learn to Dance on my own!!!

Great to try new things whilst travelling to new places! Off to look at the Royal Caribbean website now! Thanks Mumsnet and RC.

Ice Rink would be the first activity - we live too far from the nearest ice rink for it to be a regular activity. The idea of skating every day is my idea of heaven!

We'd all love the cinema depending on the films available.

DH and I would love the FlowRider® Surf Simulator - as long as we could bodyboard rather than surf. DC might be persuaded.

Escape room would be very popular with all of us as we love challenges.

Swimming and zip lines would be great (though I wouldn't do the zip line). DD and I could really do with regular practice to improve our swimming. DH and DS swim really well.

I didn't realize so many activities were possible on ships.

All of it sounds thoroughly entertaining.

My 6yo Ds would love the circus school and the zip lines the most.

My 2yo dd would love the splashway bay as she loves swimming and water play.

My oh would love the ultimate abyss.he is the death slide demon.(Sounds too scary for me though)

I would love the roller disco.
The roller disco in my town shut down years ago,so I have never been to one.but they look so much fun.

OMG get me & my 5 kids onboard now !! How amazing it would be to do them all.

I'd like to try - The Escape Room
My 9yr old son- The Tallest Slide
7yr old son- Circus School
6yr old son- Mini Golf
4yr old daughter- Splashaway Bay
2yr old son- Splashaway Bay

Crazy to think you could fit all those pools, zip wire, ice rink etc on a ship i'd never want to get off !!

We went on an NCL cruise in 2014 and before setting sail we were moored behind a Royal Caribbean ship, it looked amazing, we could see the flowrider thing and a climbing wall. My son would love the cinema, the games room (particularly the xbox) and swimming is always a favourite with him, their pools look much bigger than the ones are our cruise, they were tiny tiny tiny!!

Dodgems
~ DreamWorks Experience*

~ FlowRider® Surf Simulator

~ Ice Rink

~ Learn to Dance

~ Rock Wall
~ Roller Disco
~ Splashaway Bay - Kids’ Waterpark

~ Swimming
~ Teen Disco
~ The Perfect Storm Waterslides
~ Ultimate Abyss - Tallest Slide at Sea

~ Zip Lines

skydiving, zip line, anything a bit scary.

The laser tag and the waterpark would be our favourites

Loads to choose from!
My personal choices would be

• indoor skydiving
• library

My son (12) would love

• games arcade
• Xbox
• laser tag

Dd1 (12) would like

• water slides
• surf simulator
• zip lines

Dd2 (10) would love

• circus school
• learn to dance
• rock wall
• water park

All in all a brilliant sounding experience for all!!!

I can never get my head around how all this fits on a ship! For us, disco, swimming, dance classes

Me and DH: Spa - we need some relaxation
DS (15mo): Waterpark, he loves splashing about

My dd being a skater would head straight for the ice rink

What a selection! My boy would split his time between the dodgems and the library