Cruise with kids: Allure of the Seas is the perfect family vacation

Family photos on Allure of the Seas

I love all the great photos I can get of my family on a cruise. I typically do most of the picture taking, so I am often left out of many photos. And the ones I am in are never up the quality I wish they were. So I love the photo packages that Royal Caribbean offers and I am always on a mission to take lots of professional photos because I buy the CD that provides a large digital file of every picture that myself, my husband or the kids are in. What a deal! Here are a few of my favorites…

DreamWorks Experiences

There are so many opportunities for character interaction on the Allure of the Seas but it is not in an annoying overloaded way. No worries, if your kid is afraid or not interested because it would be easily avoidable if the character interaction is of no interest. However, for my son, characters are a fun treat to see. Photo opportunities with the characters from Shrek and Madagascar are abundant, some are for you to take with your own camera and others are done by the ship photographers. There were three chances for taking part in the character breakfast with a special chocolate menu. And then some special performances involving these fun characters. Because of our room category on our first sailing, we had the unique chance to have a party on the helicopter pad as we sailed away from Labadee and Shrek came to visit each of us.

Family Friendly Ports

I have been to just about every Caribbean port, so I really enjoy the private island days. We enjoy renting a cabana on Barefoot Beach. I highly recommend booking a cabana if you have young kids so that they can have shade and a comfortable area to nap. Labadee is a favorite of mine because it provides relaxation, adrenaline pumping activities (Dragon’s Breath zipline- done this twice and LOVE it) and a fun kids splash pad area as well as the Adventure Ocean island location.