NCL Should Ban These Parents 

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These cruise lines needs to step up and enforce THEIR rules. Those kids should have been kicked out at the 1st warning.

They need to stop letting people in after the start of the show. Security should be there to remove these people.

Top reason we try to book cruises when school is in session or with a longer itinerary (e.g., 10-days). Less kids on board. We don't dislike kids...we dislike parents who can't control their kids properly.

They need to CLOSE the doors when the show begins!

What about all the parents who let their kids run the halls wildly and loudly late at night? Ban them too!

1. No one should be allowed in the theatre once the show has begun. 2. If the rules are disobeyed, crew should kick the miscreants out.

I love kids, but I don't love parents who don't teach their children how to behave in public. It's important not just when they're children, but also once they become adults. None of us are the only people on the planet.

Folks, this is a man who had 6 of his own children. He isn't a hater, or even a nasty guy. He just wants to enjoy and report on his cruise experiences. This is news "for your FACE!" Love Tony's presentations, even though I am a lurker as I have never cruised, nor do I ever expect to:) Shout out Luda:)

The theater staff should have dealt with this.

Two adults chaperoning 14 or so kids is a recipe for disaster. Those pre-teens know how to take advantage of such a mis-match!

The crew who let them get away with it should be reprimanded. The cruise line let's people get away with disturbing everyone these days.

I have 4 kids. At the ages you described, they certainly knew how to behave in a theater. There is no reason for them to be rambunctious. If they do misbehave, then we leave

If the theater is telling you to move your kids to another row and you don't, your kids are going to remember this and think they can break the rules all the time

Ban Them all.

This is a problem every where. A vast majority of people don't think the rules apply to them.

No wonder kids are disrespectful when the adults don’t adult.

The ship should’ve revoked all of their on-board internet privileges for the remainder of the cruise (hit them where it hurts) and banned them from the theatre. The performers shouldn’t have to put up with that crap, not in either case.

The performers should stop the show & publicly embarass them. However security should not allow them in.

Why were they allowed into the theater 15 minutes late?

Blame the parents but also the cruise line for not enforcing some kind of decorum during a show. Letting them in 15 minutes after the show began was their first mistake. Many parents simply abrogate all responsibility for their kids on a cruise so they can have their own time. If you want your own time don't take kids along with you on a cruise and leave the spawn at home.

Ban them all!

And this is the reason why I have switched to Vrgin Voyages. I'm a mother of five and we cruised with our children while they were young, and still do as adult children... and if they would have pulled that- their hairline would have been pulled. I have no problem saying be quiet to other people's kids especially when you're being disrespectful. If you can't handle your kids then don't say anything to me when I check them! 🤷🏾‍♀️ Sorry, not sorry

very few parents discipline their children, they'd rather be "buddies"

as an Actor I think NCL is way wrong in the second situation. as soon as they got on stage they should have been asked to leave the theater with no option of returning on the sailing (or future sailings). Something you learn very early on when becoming an actor is the most dangerous thing in our profession is the stage itself. so many things can and will go wrong that if not treated with the upmost respect for the space it WILL end in disaster. there should be no room for warnings when safty is compremised.

It always shocks me how many kids younger than 10 are running around the ships unattended. Besides some misbehaving, how can a parent not be afraid those kids can get hurt is beyond me. You never know if another cruiser is a decent person or a potential threat to your little ones

It's not just NCL. You'll see the same bad behavior from parents and kids on Royal Caribbean too.

Norwegian is at fault for the bad behavior because they didn't enforce theor rules. Kids should be in kids clubs. Adults pay too much money to put up with the nonsense.

My last cruise was on the Norwegian Joy and right off the bat, the kids next door were banging on the door, the walls, running and screaming and I was like "Oh No." I wasn't going to deal with that the entire cruise, so I went outside my cabin and saw the kid who was the "worst offender." I just had to give him a nasty stink eye look and he ran inside his cabin and was good for the rest of the cruise. So be it.

Apparently you experienced, with these unruly tots, what elementary school teachers experience. Ridiculous that parents allow this, knowing they have several more days with the rest of you, who may harbor grudges. These people make me angry for a minute, but leave me with longer term sadness, for the lack of concern for the other thousands of folks, cruising. Absolutely no care is shown, for their fellow cruisers. If YOU were annoyed, imagine how ANGRY other people were. How sad for the performers as well...

Wife and I (in our 70s) do NOT cruise in the summer or holidays! We raised our kids and you can bet if they had acted like today's kids, I probably would have thrown them over board! As to the stage/theater cruiselines SHOULD provide security!!

On my last cruise, three little girls running all up and down the hall for hours…laughing and being loud. I opened the door and asked them not to run. Well….that didn’t work and not a parent in sight. How easy would it be to snatch a kid? Not good. Poor parenting at its best.

Having taught public school for quite a number of years, mostly in rural Southern California, I saw a steady decline in parents having and enforcing any kind of rules, routines, etc. The "inmates" are running the asylum.... Agree that cruise lines need to enforce their rules - imo, the majority should be looked after..... ban those parents !

Unfortunately we can't patrol bad parents, and bad children, and there are tons of them. It's just not fair to the rest of us. The cruise ships should have more security and they should be monitoring and addressing this kind of garbage.

I agree with you 100%. Trouble is, it's not just on cruise ships, it's all over .And it's not just kids that are inconsiderate, it's adults, too.

Both of my children had their first cruise at 11 months old. They are now 9 amd 13. They KNOW how to behave, and if they choose not to the PRIVILEGE of going on cruises will be revoked. PERIOD. I actually avoid summer cruises to avoid bad children/parents even though I have kids of my own. This kind of behavior truly unnerves me. 😑

Crew are so afraid that if they enforce the rules someone will leave a bad comment about them and they'll be fired. I've seen a lot of bad behavior, sometimes in front of crew, and they'll do nothing.

The worst parents/chaperones were on rccl years ago. 200 pre teen with 2 adults. They reaked havoc. Took food off buffet, took a bite and put it back. Always in adult area and nightclubs. Pools were taken over with cannonballs and chicken games. It was a cruise from hell. Never took rccl after that. Did write a letter and called but in the words of rccl, the group paid a lot of money. Does that mean the more you pay the worse you can act? Your accounts of this behavior makes me so angry. No respect anymore

Tony has his Sassy Pants on lately and I am here for it! I agree with you that a family vacation does not mean absent parents.

Welcome the the current world of every teacher in the United States. Parents and kids that think they are above and more important than everyone else. Sounds like NCL needs to have a couple ushers or house managers for their shows.

Definitely staff should have evicted them all. That is part of "teaching" parents to parent responsibly

If I were a cruise director, I'd be tempted to announce that the show would not begin until all the children in the front row were removed. And if I were a performer when any group came 15 minutes late, I'd be tempted to stop the show until they were removed. That won't happen, of course, but it's a shame that some parents feel so entitled that they will spoil a show for everyone. 1. No latecomers admitted after the show begins. 2. Seating rules will be enforced.

How about just closing the theater doors once performance begins and not allow late comers to enter 😊

That is one reason I to only cruise when school is in session.

RUDE!!!

My Marine Corp attitude would have come out and I would have told them to sit down and shut up.😮😮😮

I love the parents that let the cruise ship/passengers to baby sit their 18 second mistake.

Shows should close the doors when the performance begins, no one else to enter and if you leave you don't get back in.

I've run into irresponsible behavior by adults supposedly supervising teen sports teams at hotels and letting the kids run wild. Good reason to skip summer cruising season

Totally agree with you on this topic. On my first cruise (to Alaska), I did the train excursion in Skagway. After I had picked a car to ride in, a large family group (grandparents with their adult children and a bunch of grandchildren) came on and I figured my experience was about to be ruined. Much to my surprise, one of the mom's laid the groundwork for the kids and made it crystal clear that the kids were expected to behave and there would be consequences (such as no pool privileges) if they didn't. I could also tell that she meant it and, more importantly, the kids knew that she meant it. The kids got excited a few times along the way, like kids are going to do, when we saw some interesting views, but were VERY well behaved. A bunch of us made a point to say something to that mom thanking her for doing such a great job with the kids. We can't reasonably expect kids to be silent in situations like these, especially on excursions or at the pool, but there's a big difference between the kids enjoying the experience vs being totally out of control and undisciplined. And I agree with the other posters that the cruise lines should do things like close the doors when shows begin and take some action when needed. The people in the scenarios you described shouldn't have been allowed to a) enter after the show started and b) ignore the show staff.

The cruise lines need to step up and realize that their policy of not correcting and or punishing cruisers that break the rules so they do not tick them off is going to back fire as more folks get frustrated and just stop cruising.

Agreed. On my last RCCL cruise, couple of maybe 6 year olds in the front row of the aquatheater kept getting up and running up and down the aisle over and over. Super distracting and got in the way of performers at one point. I don't think the parents ever turned around to see where they were going, which was wild, considering how young they were. If your kid is that bored in the theater, you should take them back to the room or somewhere else, not leave everybody else to deal with them.

NCL never does anything about these rude kids. We had. an Alaska cruise. Parents are letting the kids run up and down the corridors. Twelve 1:00 o'clock in the morning We Complaint. to. to guess services. They're monitoring it. Nothing was ever done. They continued throughout cruise

How can 2 adults have that many kids when an adult is required in every cabin? That’s not possible that they had that many kids with them. That would be 7 people in a room . What’s really shitty is the kids sail free !!!!!!

Years ago, maybe it was just princess cruises they used to shut the doors at showtime and you couldn’t come in after that! Shout out to Luda

Ban all terrible parents and children!!

I’m old. I don’t want to go on water slides or zip lines. I don’t want to listen to screaming children unless they’re playing in the pool. I don’t want to deal with adult drunks. I guess we’ll have to pay up to avoid some of that.

I was on the Encore last month, as the parents sat and ate, there were 3 small children running through the restaurant, the servers with trays full of food on a swaying ship are trying to avoid tripping over these kids. It was making me so crazy, the thought of hot coffee dropping on these kids, I just had to get up and leave

I really this this is a staff thing. If people are late to the theater, they should not have been allowed into the theater.

if they were sharing beer with the kids you should have reported it to security

Yay!!!! It's Tony with caruuuuzing news for our face!!

Tony, I totally agree with you. Parents should control their kids. If not ban them.

I would have said something, this is not acceptable.

We splurged for a haven room on the Viva. Came back from an excursion in the sun on a hot day. Made haste to the cold room we had spent up to access, only to find some little devils had propped the door open and were carrying away the ice in cups to dump in the outdoor pool. The room was warm, though the refrigeration was working fine. That was the only opportunity we had to use that room on the whole trip.

Close the door to the main floor of the theater as there are seats upstairs that would not be as disruptive.

Ban them!!! Love your banning ideas 💡. 😄

Kids will be Kids but THEY Learn it from the PARENTS ... And that's where the issue STARTS ...

I was on this same cruise and there were some kids appearing to be pre-teens in the cruise next presentation in the Spinnaker lounge that were jumping on the seats and tables being very obnoxious! I wish NCL would have said something to them. They really had no business in there.

This is an issue at every theater. I went to Broadway and there was a group of at least 11 kids with 3 adults. The whole show the kids were singing along and kicking seats and talking amongst themselves. It was so annoying. Broadway tickets are waaaay too expensive hear 10 year Olds sing instead of the performers you paid to hear. How can parents adults NOT prepare their kids for the type of behavior that is expected in these sotuations.

I was on the NCL Getaway cruise in the spring. While I was at the pool. A young girl with her mother, who was carrying a large brown shopping bag, were using the pool shower to was their clothes and then hang them all over the deck chairs. When I informed the girl that there was a laundry on the ship, she said this is the way family does things. I went to look for a cruise employee, but could not find one. Not my class of people.

Love your ban rants! Thanks for speaking up.

Hubby and I were on Wonder of the Seas. He needed to us a scooter for back issues that later required 2 back surgeries. In any event, with all the available elevators, it was a nightmare to try to catch one that was open to a scooter. Dining hours were even worse!!! Although we had to let availability go for lack of space, when an elevator stopped, passengers neglected that you were possibly waiting for a very long time. To make matters worse, we found bunches of kids hitting every floor number on the elevator so that the elevator would stop at every floor. Or we found them outside the elevator hitting the up or down button then running away. It was horrendous so much so that we swore off large cruise ships especially those that favor families. Children at certain ages should be made to be accompanied by an responsible adult!

Not halfway through this, I'm flabbergasted. I've never cruised, so here's a pertinent question: Do these shows not have ushers? People who show the audience members to their seats, and enforce the rules, like being quiet, stay in your seat except for immediate need for the bathroom, no picture/video-taking (if that's one of the rules), and so on? I used to work on various crews in musical theatre, including ushering (the others were backstage crews - props and costumes). We would escort the audience members to the row where they could find their seats, and they were expected to sit there. We informed them they could not record any part of the performance. They could not bring food or beverages into the auditorium. And if they were late, we would not allow them to go to their seats until an appropriate lull in the performance (ie. a scene change, when the stage crew took a brief break - 40 seconds to a minute - to reset a scene to a new in-story location). Most people arrived on time (the closest most people cut it was during hockey playoffs; curtain time was 8 pm and a flurry of people arrived 2-3 minutes before that, and I heard people whispering, "What was the score when _you_ left home?"). Oh, and the penalty for breaking any of these rules? The offender would be reminded of the rule, and if they argued or kept on, they were kicked out. No refund.

I stand behind all you said!!! After all these years I don’t think I have never seen you that round up! I think I would have lost it so good for you.

During Spectra's Cabaret in two70 on Ovation of the Seas, a guy came in, walked down to the stage floor on the left side, then walked in front of the performers (almost getting hit, thankfully the performer seen him and got out of step), over to the middle right, then went up a row or two and sat down. It really sucks when you have front row seats and have to witness that level of stupidity.

I agree! They should be banned. I also don’t like the way the adults are showing the kids that it’s ok to break the rules. I’d hate to be the teacher of these kids. Keep up the great job Tony!!

I think cruise lines should have public shaming of bad parents on cruise ships. Maybe on the lido deck or something and they have to wear signs while on the ship.

This is why I’m Virgin Voyages … a permanent kid ban! Woot!

I was on NCL Sky in May. During one of the performances, they made an announcement before the show that no kids should be in the front row and to stay out of the isles once the show starts. Guess who was in the front row? That's right, two young children. A boy who must have been around 1 or 2 and a girl who was 2 or 3. The mom was with them. The dad was there for a minute and then got up and left. The mom sat down on the floor in front of the stage and held her son up so he could dance and she let the little girl run up and down the isles. This kid even tried to climb on the stage a couple times. Staff did nothing. When the performers came down into the audience, I thought for sure the girl was going to get kicked in the head. While I don't want a child to get hurt, I was kind of looking forward to seeing what the mom would do if her precious crotch goblin got hurt by a performer. Anyways, they were really distracting and I wish NCL would ban people who break the rules like this. By-the-way, I like kids and don't mind them being on cruises but parents need to control them and make sure they follow the rules.

My technique for theater shows is to get there early and sit with people already in front and behind me. I’ll know immediately if I’m sitting by loud talkers and can move before the show starts. Doesn’t always work, but does the most of the time.

Our family calls my wife the "Hall Monitor". We just need to get her a sash and send her out cruising!

TOTALLY agree with you on this one Tony & Co. The blatant disregard and disrespect of rules sometimes seems to be the norm, not the exception. Which is, frustrating. We've cruised for over a decade now. Some change, has been great. Some change,,like these situations well, not so much. Thank you and your amazing team for all yall do. ❤️

I absolutely love the comments regarding children behavior and lack of parental responsibility. Just another reason I don’t like to cruise in the summer.

It’s like screaming kids in the supermarket!

Love the video Tony!! We agree. Ban!!

Two words. Virgin Voyages.

Why I don’t cruise in the summer or school breaks.

It's a farmer and his daughter, not his wife. Ban those parents or at least fine them!

Spot on Tony!!

I spent a lot of money on Circ de Solie tickets in Vegas one year. from the time it started to within 30 minutes into the show people continued to come into the show. I was so angry and felt that my money was wasted on very expensive tickets. I even wrote to MGM (the host) and complained but received no response.

When I was a child, if my brother and I had been disruptive even in a restaurant, my dad would’ve taken us out right then and there and possibly even given us a spanking if we were young enough.

If they announced that children should not be in the front row, especially when they were basically unsupervised, they should have been told to move. There are far too many people who believe that the rules are not for them and theirs.

There are some parents who don’t share a room with their children and literally spend an hour a day with their children on cruises. It’s almost as if the parents expect the cruise staff to parent their kids for them, it’s ridiculous.

This is one of many reasons why I love Virgin and Viking. Previously, the only way to have a chance of avoiding other people's children was to book an ultra luxury line (Silversea, Crystal, Regent Seven Seas, etc). Now, if I'm cruising in the summer or during any holiday periods, it's going to be on an adults only line.

On one of our last NCL cruises, 2 kids, maybe 16 or so years old, got into a fist fight during a show. The adults moved them out of the theater briefly, but then they all came back. If it would have been my kid, he'd have seen the inside of his stateroom for the rest of the trip.

Ban Them!

Ya Tony! I’m with you. Ban em!

This is why I cruise while school is in. Even so on my last cruise there was a child maybe two or three walking around by themselves. I told the ship’s personnel.

I agree 100% with you Tony - All cruise lines need to enforce the rules - if they don't the chaos/disrespect will get worse. I'd like to see more security on cruises also - visible security. Too many mishaps continue to happen. I also agree that either you can not enter the theater after the show starts or they should save a row for late arrivals.

You are a better man than me! I would NEVER EVER go on a cruise with kids! EVER, nope, just nope! When our girls were growing up we went to a family resort with a full time activity director. It was Great Lake time. Kids came back at lunch, then at 4:00. We always rented a boat and beautiful cabin. Everyone had kids and came every year. It’s so important NOT to ruin other people’s vacation. When you all have kids they make friends and have a ball!