Family Club cruises<\/a> in which children under 16 to cruise for free and includes a second cabin next door for a family of four (two parents with two children, five years and older) or a child in the same cabin (maximum one child). On some of its ships, Emerald Cruises, Riviera River Cruises, Scenic, Tauck and Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection also offer a few single-occupancy staterooms to shore up the numbers without putting two guests in the same room.<\/p>\nBoth Uniworld and Tauck also have numerous family-friendly river cruise sailings offered during the summer months, when kids are historically off school; and during December, in the run-up to Christmas and New Year\u2019s. Both lines have also designed their programs onboard and ashore to cater specifically to families, but without diluting the onboard experience for adults. CroisiEurope\u2019s designated \u201cFamily Club\u201d cruises also feature children\u2019s activities and fun things ashore in unique destinations, such as Andalucia, Croatia, and Venice, where CroisiEurope offers coastal cruises on specially designed vessels.<\/p>\n
So, where do the other river cruise lines stand? Most will accept children of a certain age group, but taking kids aboard a standard, non-family river cruise may not be such a good idea. For one, there will be little to no activities designed for kids, who may find themselves bored with decidedly adult activities like lectures, walking tours and evening entertainment that consists largely of a piano player and cocktails.<\/p>\n
The other important consideration before booking your kids on an adult river cruise is that many of your fellow guests have chosen that vacation specifically because it offers an adult experience. That doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t like kids; many guests will have children and grandchildren of their own. But it does mean that the reception you may find onboard from your fellow guests could be, well, chilly if you\u2019re not booked on a specially-designated family-friendly cruise.<\/p>\n
As river cruising grows in popularity, it\u2019s reasonable to expect that other lines will eventually follow suit in offering family-friendly river cruise departures at certain times of the year. Until then, specially-designated sailings aboard the ships of AmaWaterways, CroisiEurope, Tauck, and Uniworld may be your best bets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Can children go on a river cruise? It depends. Only a couple of river cruise companies allow children under the age of three, Crystal and CroisiEurope. Emerald, Riviera and Scenic require that kids be 12 or older. And one company bans kids altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,171,221,81,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}