‘I feel safer with them on a cruise ship’: Families share tips on how to take a cruise with kids
When OJ Stapleton’s daughters were 4 and 3 years old, he and his wife, Becky, took them on a cruise for the first time.
“We thought, we’ll try out a cruise and see how it goes,” the newspaper editor from Russellville, Kentucky, told USA TODAY.
After trying out a few different cruise lines and itinerary lengths, the Stapletons figured out what worked for them as a family – from which amenities Emily and Molly liked most, to which school breaks fell at the best times for cruising.