Oceaneer Club/Lab Age Change

[ToTBellHop]

11 and 12-year olds are no longer welcome. We were thinking of one more DCL cruise but we’ll stick with Royal following this news.

 

[Disney Analyst]

 

[Doberge]

I don't think it's cool to just spring this on families. Changes like this should be announced further out than final payment, to give families a chance to back out if desiring. I can't imagine many actually backing out but the opportunity to do so would have been a nice gesture.

 

[ChuckElias]

We're on the Magic on Jan. 31 and there a lot of families in our Facebook group that are NOT happy at all. They're planning their own play groups for their kids.

 

[ToTBellHop]

I don't think it's cool to just spring this on families. Changes like this should be announced further out than final payment, to give families a chance to back out if desiring. I can't imagine many actually backing out but the opportunity to do so would have been a nice gesture.

My kids would be devastated. It was the only part of the Wish that we thought was a home run, honestly.

 

[Riverrafter21]

Does anyone know if there is a story behind this, or is this just a change based on consumer and staffing feedback?

 

[HauntedPirate]

Does anyone know if there is a story behind this, or is this just a change based on consumer and staffing feed back?

There's always a rumor. The one I read refers back to a lawsuit filed.

 

[Riverrafter21]

There's always a rumor. The one I read refers back to a lawsuit filed.

Thanks, I figured as much.

 

[ToTBellHop]

There's always a rumor. The one I read refers back to a lawsuit filed.

It might be more appropriate to better train counselors or else there with just be a $20 million lawsuit for a sexual assault at Vibe.

 

[Club Cooloholic]

I am really bummed about this. We actually were thinking of booking one more crusie so my son could experience the Marvel lab stuff again, as he doesn't remember it from about 5 years ago. Oh well

 

[jme]

I mean, I understand why people are upset. But it's not like 11-12 year olds are left with nothing to do. There is still Edge, which my tweens actually preferred (back when they were still tweens).

I get that having 11 year olds playing in the same area as 4 year olds is a bit of a dramatic age gap. I'm not sure they could have landed on anything that would please everyone, but I don't get why they didn't just segregate Club and Lab with the 3-7, and 8-12 age groups.

 

[HauntedPirate]

I mean, I understand why people are upset. But it's not like 11-12 year olds are left with nothing to do. There is still Edge, which my tweens actually preferred (back when they were still tweens).

I get that having 11 year olds playing in the same area as 4 year olds is a bit of a dramatic age gap. I'm not sure they could have landed on anything that would please everyone, but I don't get why they didn't just segregate Club and Lab with the 3-7, and 8-12 age groups.

The age change has nothing to do with the content of the youth clubs or age gap and everything to do with the accusations in a lawsuit. From what I understand.

 

[MaryJaneP]

Not sure it makes sense to have 11-12 y.o. in same activity room as 3-4 y.o. babies, but ymmv. If this change drives decisions, so be it. Change can be a bummer, hard to imagine this would not be a problem even if DCL gave years of advance warning.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Not sure it makes sense to have 11-12 y.o. in same activity room as 3-4 y.o. babies, but ymmv. If this change drives decisions, so be it. Change can be a bummer, hard to imagine this would not be a problem even if DCL gave years of advance warning.

Those age groups aren’t in the same room, typically.

 

[jme]

The age change has nothing to do with the content of the youth clubs or age gap and everything to do with the accusations in a lawsuit. From what I understand.

But that lawsuit involved a child on the older end of the spectrum, and a child (children?) on the younger end of the spectrum.

Those age groups aren’t in the same room, typically.

There's nothing stopping them though. All ages allowed in Oceaneer's have free range between both sides and all areas. I agree that typically the kids naturally gravitate toward their own age groups, and I'm sure the counselors encourage this. But there was no mandated separation.