tidefan
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- Apr 1, 2007
It depends. Our DD says that Princess is her favorite line (even over DCL). On our Spring Break cruise, we hardly saw her most of the week. Now she is a teen, so take that for what it's worth. They do have really nice Kids Clubs (with Skee Ball, X-box, foosball, and all that) and the teen club had it's own private deck and hot tub. They do some kind of partnership with Discovery channel, so if you kids are into things like Shark Week and Mythbusters, then they will really enjoy it. There is also a sports court like most ships have (with Basketball, etc.)Is Regal Princess good for kids? Both Disney and Royal (depending on the ship) are very family friendly ships with lots to do for both adults, kids and activities for the whole family. Princess looks like a great cruise ship, but I took a quick look a Regal Princess and it doesn't seem like a ton of activities for kids outside of the clubs and general swimming.
But I would include Carnival and NCL in the loop of comparison.
Our DD says that a couple of her favorite things were 1) they had some kind of thing where one of the chefs took the kids down to the kitchens to cook a meal, She really enjoyed that, and 2) one day on an Alaskan Cruise, one of the Iditarod sledders brought some of the dogs on board...
She and her friend that went with her last time also loved eating at Alfredo's by themselves every night...
However, there won't be waterslides, rock walls, ice rinks, go karts, ropes courses, etc. If you want that, then you are probably better off sticking to Carnival, RCL, or NCL...
One other thing I'll add is that with the Medallion on the newer Princess ships, you can see where your kids are at all times (the RFID in the Medallion tracks them), so it was super easy to track her down if we needed to find her. I really liked that feature...