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[Not not kid-friendly]
Friday, 26 February 2021 19:51HAL is great if you’re an adult
(And if you’re a kid,too. I was on an Alaskan cruise with my family and friends of ours’ kids and grandkids and they loved it-we hardly saw them during the whole cruise! Fair to say that they loved it.
I just don’t understand this reflexive thing when someone posts about kids on HAL cruises and the usual suspects try to claim that HAL is NOT kid-friendly. Well, some kids don’t want all of the bells and whistles that other cruise lines’ ships have. Don’t assume that that is what your kid wants. I mean, from what I know about club HAL kids love it so much some of them have to be dragged out of there to go to dinner! That says a LOT right there. HAL has kids’ menus and it would be easy enough to find something for even the pickiest kid to eat(I remember sitting at a table with a kid-who was a toddler-who would rather eat what everyone else was eating instead of the kids’ meals(which,I admit, looked delicious. You can’t go wrong with chicken nuggets and mac and cheese. Oh and pizza! What kid doesn’t like pizza! That was what my nephew pretty much lived on during our Alaskan cruise.That and ice cream! After all that, how can you say that HAL isn’t kid-friendly? You can get peanut butter and jelly and they have bread..et freaking cetra.)
Our teens prefer HAL over NCL.Hated the rock climbing.
(Exactly! Not every kid wants to be overstimulated by what other cruise lines have-cruise lines with much bigger ships than HAL does. There is a worry that that is what HAL is going to turn into but honestly I do not think it is going to happen. HAL knows their strengths and weakness(take the smaller ships. Yes, beloved by some of the old guard.. but the problem with the old ships is that they are in dire need of maintenance that they don’t get and when things come up on cruises they just do a patch job(or two or..) until the next dry dock.Well dry docks are usually every 2 years or so. There is a lot that can happen in 2 years. Which is why it’s a good thing that HAL understands this and is selling them off and now they’re another cruise lines’ problem.)
(And if you’re a kid,too. I was on an Alaskan cruise with my family and friends of ours’ kids and grandkids and they loved it-we hardly saw them during the whole cruise! Fair to say that they loved it.
I just don’t understand this reflexive thing when someone posts about kids on HAL cruises and the usual suspects try to claim that HAL is NOT kid-friendly. Well, some kids don’t want all of the bells and whistles that other cruise lines’ ships have. Don’t assume that that is what your kid wants. I mean, from what I know about club HAL kids love it so much some of them have to be dragged out of there to go to dinner! That says a LOT right there. HAL has kids’ menus and it would be easy enough to find something for even the pickiest kid to eat(I remember sitting at a table with a kid-who was a toddler-who would rather eat what everyone else was eating instead of the kids’ meals(which,I admit, looked delicious. You can’t go wrong with chicken nuggets and mac and cheese. Oh and pizza! What kid doesn’t like pizza! That was what my nephew pretty much lived on during our Alaskan cruise.That and ice cream! After all that, how can you say that HAL isn’t kid-friendly? You can get peanut butter and jelly and they have bread..et freaking cetra.)
Our teens prefer HAL over NCL.Hated the rock climbing.
(Exactly! Not every kid wants to be overstimulated by what other cruise lines have-cruise lines with much bigger ships than HAL does. There is a worry that that is what HAL is going to turn into but honestly I do not think it is going to happen. HAL knows their strengths and weakness(take the smaller ships. Yes, beloved by some of the old guard.. but the problem with the old ships is that they are in dire need of maintenance that they don’t get and when things come up on cruises they just do a patch job(or two or..) until the next dry dock.Well dry docks are usually every 2 years or so. There is a lot that can happen in 2 years. Which is why it’s a good thing that HAL understands this and is selling them off and now they’re another cruise lines’ problem.)
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