Halong Bay Family Cruises

When you travel to Halong Bay with a family with children, that is not easy to choose a cruise in Halong Bay for your family because you have to search a lot of information to make sure that all of your family members can enjoy the trip but you still can take care your children or elderly. There are so many questions pop up in your mind and even sometimes you may want to give up because of being tired of searching for information. 

Do not worry, we are here to give you the recommendation for the best Halong Bay cruises for family. You will not need to worry about searching for much information but just see the list of the cruises and choose the most suitable cruises for your family. All of them will be the best cruises for your family but you just see if the price is suitable for your budget or if the cruise style is yours. 

All the Halong Bay cruises for family in this list have some major factors; Safety, Comfort, Entertainment, children services

Safety: The priority on a Halong Bay cruise with family

"Safety first" is always right in any case. However, when you travel with a family with kids it is especially correct.

Children are very active and they always want to discover the world. That is the reason why we need to choose a cruise which is safe for our family.

There are hundreds of cruises but a big cruise, a steel cruise will be safer for your group even we know that Halong Bay is quite safe with calm waves and thousands of mountains surrounding it.

Choose a cruise with good services so the staffs on cruise always keep an eye on guests including your children.

All cruises in Halong Bay with life jackets but you may ask a cruise with life jackets for kids. So you can ask in advance the cruise you wish to book if they have or not.

Choose a cruise with good reviews on Tripadvisor or other forums to make sure you are travelling with a good and responsible cruise company. 

A cruise for family should not be too old or too new. If that is too old, it might not meet all the safety conditions because in the past the requirement for safety in Halong Bay was not so high. Now, most of the new cruises in Halong Bay are steel cruises so they are quite safe for your holiday but a new cruise may need time to fix all the small issues or to run smoothly.

Comfort: Important for your holiday with family

Cruise Bus: 

Normally, it takes about 3.5 hours for driving from Hanoi to Halong but now there are so many buses or private car from Hanoi to Halong Bay use the Highway No 5 and it only takes about 2 to 2.5 hours. Choosing cruises with those buses will be comfortable for your family group with children or the elderly. There is a stop-over on the way so it is not a really matter.

When you book a cruise, you also can ask your travel agents to arrange the last pick up and the first drop-off so you do not have to wait for long time on bus and your children or elderly will feel better ( Happy kids – Happy travellers).

Cabins for family:

In Halong Bay, there are many cruises which can arrange cabins for family groups but there are some cruises have special cabins for family groups which may have a triple cabin or a connecting door cabin so your family can use this kind of room. That will be easy to taken care of your children or elderly because they need to be taken care of sometimes. 

A cabin for a family group can be a cabin with an extra bed so when your family has 3 persons and that cabin can accommodate your family members. That cabin needs to be big enough so you have more space for enjoying a luxury cabin but not only enough for beds. A cabin on a cruise normally is not so big like in the hotels so choosing a cruise which has big cabins is important.

When you have an infant with your family travelling, you may consider a private cruise so you do not have to disturb others when your children are crying. However, if your family group is not big enough then that is expensive to arrange a private cruise with some cabins. There are some small cruises with some cabins for a private family but a big cruise can be safer.

Entertainment:

When your children are busy playing something then they will not disturb you. You will have time to enjoy the trip with the wonderful scenery of Halong Bay. 

A cruise with big sundeck will be great for family as your children have space to play. There are some cruises with big sundeck and they have mini golf yard.

Choosing a cruise with an itinerary with activities that are friendly with children is important. The cruises with swimming on beach, squid fishing, walking, kayaking, visiting floating villages, discovering island activities are friendly for children. So you can choose a cruise with these activities for your family.

A cruise with a  small swimming pool is very good for children as they can enjoy playing there.

Friendly Children services:

There are cruises which have friendly children's services. They have baby cots, extra beds and you can request children's food easily. 

You may need to ask cruise chef to cook special food for your children and there is not this kind of food on the menu so a friendly children cruise will help you to do it easily.

See the best cruises for family as below and choose the best one for your family.