Posted on 08/30/2018 8:38:39 AM PDT by Simon Green
Traveling with kids can be fun, crazy and sometimes a little loud and chaotic. Even the most devoted parents occasionally want a few minutes… or hours… or perhaps even days of a peaceful child-free experience. Adults-only destinations and resorts are hardly a new concept, but over the last few years, a “no kids allowed” policy has been spreading beyond resorts to airplanes and, most recently, Viking Cruises.
To get a feel for the current state of “no kids allowed,” here’s a list of major airlines, cruise lines and resorts that children aren’t allowed to travel. If you usually travel with kids, consider these spots to avoid — conversely, if you’re looking to have a kid-free experience, these are places and carriers you may want to consider.
No kids allowed on Viking Cruises
Viking Cruises already had restrictions in place regarding children on its various cruises, but according to their terms, the cruise line recently took things a step further. For all cruises booked after August 1, 2018, passengers must be 18 years old on or before the day they embark. However, cruises through 2019 that were booked before Aug. 1 may still have passengers under 18 as long as they were booked before the child ban went into place — just don’t expect kid-focused amenities.
Airlines with child-free zones
How many times have you heard an adult passenger complain about crying babies or energetic toddlers seated near them on an airplane? Probably more than once. A quick search on social media brings up plenty of pleas for child-free zones on airplanes, even if it costs extra.
There aren’t any US airlines with child-free — or child-friendly — seating areas, but there are a few out there if you take a global view.
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Since supposed adults do not discipline their children, business are resorting to excluding unruly children and their childish parents.
Society has become so stupid and bothersome that we’ve stopped going to many places.
Lost me right there.
The parents with their incessant babbytalk is worse than the kids themselves on planes.
LOL! Having as many kids as you do probably affords a unique perspective ;-)
The wife and I go to Sandals Resorts, no kids allowed.
Well free range children and (Wal-Mart orphans) never learn manners or etiquette. Parents are to busy being kids to teach their kids, when I was a child you followed your parent with your hands in your pockets. If you broke it you bought it. Now kids are unattended and playing with the toys in the aisles. That’s why I call them orphans.
It’s not that my kids are bad, and we often do things that are fun. Working at camp is nice. We spent the night on the USS Yorktown. We go hiking at parks and stuff.
However, my dream vacation is my husband’s taking the children to the beach, while I stay home with the pets, a long recorded book, and lots of cleaning supplies.
:D
This included 14 hour flights to and from Japan where we lived 1988-2002. When it got boring they slept or Dad and Mom would walk the aisles with them until they got tired enough to sleep or go back to their sticker books or coloring books or baby dolls or (in my youngest daughter's case) hand tools.
That’s my dream, and I don’t even have kids. When he goes away for awhile, I can finally get the house straightened up ;-)
No problem with children on airplanes. As long as they travel as checked baggage.
Saying that necessary travel with your children wasn’t really any more awful than necessary travel without your children is not at all the same as, “Traveling with kids can be fun ...”.
They say, “A change is as good as a rest.”
This is true!
Not to mention all the other people who may not want to be bothered by other people's children.
I find it’s accurate. A week at the beach with the family is not a rest: it’s taking my regular job on the road. I want my own vacuum cleaner!!!
On the other hand, a week running an archery range at Cub Scout camp is a rest. Might be working all day in the blazing heat, but my children (who are campers or camp staff) are adequately supervised by others.
“Kid Free” or “Quiet?” I want quiet...like a restaurant where you cannot FULLY UNDERSTAND a conversation being held 50 feet from you! I would pay more for a QUIET restaurant. I’m not sure they exist any more.
Sometimes I just need to see something new that makes new images and ideas swirl around in my head - a visit to an art gallery or museum, or a park or other natural place I’ve never seen, will do it.
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