Planning a family vacation can be tricky, but a cruise offers the family-friendly options that ensure everyone in your group, from toddlers to grandparents, is provided with all the necessary ...

New cruise ships and new ways to experience favorite destinations top our list of 2026's best family vacation ideas.

A few weeks ago my family embarked on a Disney Cruise, a Halloween on the High Seas Cruise to be exact. This trip began as our family compromise. I had been excited to take my daughter to Disney World ...

I left for an international beach trip on a Monday – and made it back home in time for the weekend. My cruise on Royal Caribbean International’s Utopia of the Seas last summer took me to the Bahamas ...

How We Spent Our Family Vacation is a new column that unpacks a single trip down to the cost, from the point of view of families who love to travel. For special education teacher Courtney Kamna, ...

A trip aboard a cruise ship provides a unique vacation truly unlike anything else. When enjoying activities like shopping, dining at fancy restaurants, testing your luck at the blackjack table or ...

My husband and I took our first cruise 16 years ago for our honeymoon. We went on more cruises after becoming parents, but had never brought our kids with us. Taking my 10 and 13-year-olds on a cruise ...

Nick Offerman stars in a new Carnival Cruise Line ad campaign called “Find Your Fun Again.” The actor discussed enjoying the cruise ship's water park, ropes course, and hibachi dinner while filming.

Cruises are no longer a vacation but a lifestyle. From the size of the ships to the number of people, from onboard Picassos to Disney princesses, it’s less about whether you take a cruise than which ...

It was so sunny and summerlike in early October that when a mid-month Nor’easter was predicted, I stayed in denial for a few days. Surely, nothing could change the picture I had in my mind of our ...

Short cruises, typically lasting less than a week, are growing in popularity for quick getaways. Cruise lines are now dedicating some of their newest and largest ships to these shorter itineraries.