Cruise with 3yo and 7 month old

[Taurean]

Here's the info straight from P&O:

Minimum age to sail
We welcome children aged 12 months and over to cruise
with us. We are unable to accommodate infants less than 12
months old due to limited neo-natal facilities on board and at
ports of call.

[fionas]

I read somewhere that Princess (and that's the one we want) will take babies on some cruises provided they are six months old. Just phoned them and they said 12 months. Will have to find the info again and call them back to double-check.

Hmmmm, maybe time for a rethink. A resort instead maybe.

[MummaSue]

Oh, subscribing, we want to go on a cruise next year! DD will be over 12 months. Didn't realise there was an age limit!

[human bean]

I'm not sure if any of the lines cruising out of Australia offer in room babysitting? I haven't hit the phones to find out though. For kids clubs I'm pretty sure the little ones have to be toilet trained too. We keep trying to convince friends with kids to cruise with us next year so we can at least take turns babysitting on the odd night, but we seem to be the only cruisers in our circle! Maybe we should start a BB cruise heh heh

We cruised on Virgo last year in Singapore and they said not past 24 weeks pregnant and no chn under 12 months. We met the loveliest lady who was heavily pregnant cruising with her family inc. a 9 month old!

[Taurean]

I read somewhere that Princess (and that's the one we want) will take babies on some cruises provided they are six months old. Just phoned them and they said 12 months. Will have to find the info again and call them back to double-check.

Hmmmm, maybe time for a rethink. A resort instead maybe.

If you end up looking at resorts, one of my best friends has just returned from Club Med Bintan and they had a ball. Her kids are older though, 10 and 4, but she said the kids club facilities were amazing along with everything else the resort had to offer. Club Med often do two-for-one deals too and being all inclusive (airfares too if required), there are no nasty surprises on the credit card afterwards, lol. If that sounds like you're kind of holiday, I'd sign up for their newsletters.

[fionas]

Resort might be the go but it would have to be in Australia - I'm not up for taking DD1 on a long flight yet. Our last experience taking her on a one-hour flight to Sydney was horrific. Threw major tanty because she had to sit on someone's knee and ended up screaming for the entire flight

[Taurean]

LOL! I don't blame you then!

There is a Club Med at Lindeman but I'm not sure what it's like these days. Otherwise there are some great family resorts on the Gold Coast.