Post by Owen on Sept 7, 2020 16:01:36 GMT
1 ~~~ Cruising Takes All the Stress Out of Planning a Family Vacation ~ Conde Nast ~~~
You won't have to worry about a thing.
My brood's annual multigenerational trips, which have included spending a week at Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina and taking over a lakeside cabin in Maryland, are always a highlight of my year. But planning meals and coordinating activities for a group that ranges from toddlers to septuagenarians is an exercise in military-level coordination. Not long ago we tried something new in the hopes of lessening the madness: a cruise. My mother and I joined my sister, her husband, and their two boys, then ages five and seven, on a New Year's Eve sailing with Disney Cruise Line. I'm someone who has had to finagle last-minute dinner reservations for 14 and search desperately for a pontoon boat that could hold everyone, so I appreciated all the little things about cruising that made it easier to relax. Like not needing to plan ahead in order to eat dinner together during peak hours. Or, just as novel, not having to eat together at all—my mother would order coffee to sip on her balcony while I shamelessly hit the breakfast bar hours after my nephews had eaten.
www.cntraveler.com/story/cruising-takes-all-the-stress-out-of-planning-a-family-vacation ~ 3 September 2020 ~
You won't have to worry about a thing.
My brood's annual multigenerational trips, which have included spending a week at Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina and taking over a lakeside cabin in Maryland, are always a highlight of my year. But planning meals and coordinating activities for a group that ranges from toddlers to septuagenarians is an exercise in military-level coordination. Not long ago we tried something new in the hopes of lessening the madness: a cruise. My mother and I joined my sister, her husband, and their two boys, then ages five and seven, on a New Year's Eve sailing with Disney Cruise Line. I'm someone who has had to finagle last-minute dinner reservations for 14 and search desperately for a pontoon boat that could hold everyone, so I appreciated all the little things about cruising that made it easier to relax. Like not needing to plan ahead in order to eat dinner together during peak hours. Or, just as novel, not having to eat together at all—my mother would order coffee to sip on her balcony while I shamelessly hit the breakfast bar hours after my nephews had eaten.
www.cntraveler.com/story/cruising-takes-all-the-stress-out-of-planning-a-family-vacation ~ 3 September 2020 ~