Cruise game ship

All mainstream cruise lines -- particularly Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian -- feature popular gaming systems like Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox. These are most often available for use by children who frequent the onboard kids clubs, but occasionally, on some ships, all ages are invited to participate in friendly tournaments on big screens in public spaces like lounges and atriums.

Check your cruise schedule for times and locations. Other cruise lines kick the technology up a bit. On Disney Dream, for example, an entire room in the kids area is dedicated to Disney Infinity, a popular video game that allows children to play as their favorite characters.

There's even a life-sized version where people serve as the game pieces, and their body movements control what happens on the screen. Another room in the same area allows participants to virtually fly the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. In addition to the fee-free video games mentioned above, most mainstream vessels also house extra-cost arcades. Often located near the kids clubs, these tween and teen social hubs are generally open to passengers of all ages.

A simple swipe of a cruiser's keycard will charge the cost of game play to the respective onboard account. Parents, keep an eye on what your kids are spending, lest you end up with an astronomical bill for Skee-Ball or the cursed claw machine. The types of available cruise arcade games vary from ship to ship. Cruise lines in recent weeks have faced a growing number of ports that are balking at allowing ships with COVIDpositive passengers or crew to dock. Several ships recently had to skip port calls in Mexico , for instance, after passengers and crew on board the vessels tested positive for COVID Lines also are dealing with a small but growing number of destinations — India and Hong Kong, for example — that are at least temporarily closing to cruising completely, even for ships where no one has tested positive for COVID Viking on Sunday was forced to announce a major revision of its soon-to-begin, day world cruise after India notified the line that it was closing to cruise ships.

A growing number of cruise lines are canceling sailings on short notice, citing the disruptions caused by COVID Norwegian Cruise Line on Wednesday canceled soon-to-depart voyages on eight of its 17 ships. The cancellations come as lines struggle to maintain adequate staffing levels on some ships due to crew members testing positive. When crew test positive, they and their close contacts must stop working and isolate, even if asymptomatic, leaving shipboard venues short-staffed.

As noted above, health authorities no longer are quarantining whole ships when a few — or even a lot — of passengers and crew test positive for COVID The current protocol on most ships is to quickly isolate COVIDpositive passengers and their close contacts.

As my colleague Ashley Kosciolek experienced first-hand on a cruise in , close contacts only are being isolated for a short period while they are tested for COVID If they test negative, they are allowed out of their rooms to rejoin the rest of their fellow cruisers on board. This means that many sailings are going ahead as planned, with little disruption, even when some passengers and crew on the trips test positive for COVID While some passengers who were deemed close contacts of the passengers who tested positive were isolated for a short period while being tested for COVID, the positive cases had little impact on most of the passengers on board the vessel, and the voyage went ahead as planned.

Such a protocol comes at the recommendation of the CDC, which has set guidelines for how cruise lines should respond to COVIDpositive cases on board ships, and it has worked well for the past year. Of course, if you do test positive for COVID on a ship, you will unfortunately face what could be several days of isolation in a cabin on a ship or on land. This is one of the biggest risks of taking a cruise right now, and one reason that you may want to consider canceling a sailing scheduled in the short term see the section on more-flexible cancellation policies below.

Cruise lines are reporting that the vast majority of passengers testing positive for COVID in recent weeks are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. All major cruise lines currently are requiring all or nearly all passengers to be fully vaccinated for COVID, with some also starting to require booster shots , to boot.

There are bridge-themed sailings on lines such as Crystal Cruises , Oceania , and Silversea Cruises with twice-daily tournaments and lectures from members of the American Contract Bridge League. The details: Both the games and instruction by ACBL members are complimentary on the special sailings. Several lines organize ship-wide scavenger hunts for all ages.

Others are a little more You might be asked to put lipstick — or a bra — on a stranger. The details: There's no extra cost to participate in the scavenger hunts on board. It follows the same format, with each member of the couple answering questions and then comparing responses — with the inevitable laughs at all of the mismatched answers. Picture an afternoon of mini golf with the family, putting your way around windmills and treasure chests. The details: You can play rounds of mini golf at no additional cost on many family-friendly cruise lines, including Carnival, Norwegian, Princess , and Royal Caribbean.

Trivia nights are popular on many lines, but we found the competition on Cunard to be the most fun — and the most challenging.

This doesn't deter cruisers. The veddy British trivia subjects range from Bond movies to Shakespeare quotes.

If you fall short, you can drown your sorrows in pints of bitters as well as the pub's excellent chicken tikka masala and classic fish and chips. The details: There is not additional charge to participate in quiz night on Cunard. The 10 Best Games on Cruise Ships. Hasbro, The Game Show.