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Cruise Essentials for families

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Must have items for cruising with kids! Or without kids 🤣
 
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Never enough hangers in your stateroom, keep your clothes wrinkle free :)
12 PCS Travel Hangers for Cruise Essentials
 
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Helps organize all your belongings; can sort each child’s outfits and accessories
Packing Cubes
 
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Great to keep your thermos’ clean!
6 in 1 Baby Bottle Cleaner Kit with Silicone
 
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Fun game for the whole family
Travel Rummikub
 
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Love these bags! Can hang them up and sort each pouch- very roomy and stores nicely
Hanging Toiletry Bag
 
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Snacks! Keep the kids fed 😆 great for travel
Snacks | Crackers, Cookies & More | Annie's Homegrown
 
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Keep your phone and money/passports dry while enjoying the pool or ocean
Waterproof Phone Pouch
 
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This is a must have! The staterooms do not have many outlets, this helps convert and charge your devices
Universal Travel Adapter, All in One
 
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Plastic grocery bags are great for putting your wet clothes in after excursions; tie it up and throw it in your backpack. Bring it back on the ship and hang your clothes out to dry
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Hang out your wet clothes and bathing suits on your balcony or even in the shower
Travel Clothesline
 
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These are so cool and pack up nicely
Full Face Snorkel Mask
 
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We love these!
Cruise On: Cruise Luggage Tags
 
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Help identify your bags! We use the neon ones for our suitcases
Luggage Handle Wraps
 
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These help change up your water a bit, the kids love them and they are dye free! All natural!
True Orange Drink Mix | Crystallized Orange - True Citrus
 
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These space bags don’t require a vacuum and you can save space by rolling up larger items. My daughter always travels will blankets so this helps store them for travel
Roll-up Compression Bags For Travel
 
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This is a must! Attach to your cruise card necklace and sanitize before you eat or on the go!
Hand Sanitizer With Keychain - Target
 
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We use lanyards on MSC and Royal, but don’t use the plastic cover because you have to put your cruise card in the door to activate lights in the room. On Princess we use wrist bands as their boats use medallions (will link bands)
Lanyards For Cruise
 
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Medallion bands (princess)
2 Packs Princess Cruise Medallion Holder
 
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These are great for the kids to collect shells and sharks teeth. Be mindful that some ports prohibit you from removing any shells from the port. You can always collect, take pics and tell the kids to hide them at the beach for the next families visit...
Shell Bag
 
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Another must have! We bring a lot of meds on a cruise- never know what you’ll need and chances are you won’t find it on the boat or in port when you need it. We bring: Tylenol, Motrin (both for kids as well), Zyrtec or Claritin, Benadryl, miralax, Im...
Travel Medication Organizer
 
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I bring a few different sizes for any miscellaneous needs during travels
Ziploc: Everyday Food Storage Bags & Containers | SC Johnson
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We love to hide little cruise ducks throughout the trip. The kids have as much fun hiding them as they do finding them :)
Cruise Ducks
 
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These are great for hanging clothes out to dry or securing your towel to the loungers
Beach Chair Towel Clips - Walmart
 
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These are great to hold your shower items in the shower (often only one shelf or corner rack to hold everything) I hang them with the magnetic metal hooks (linked as well)
Mesh Shower Caddy
 
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We love these! So many uses. Can hang your cruise card up by the door so they don’t get lost; hang items on the walls or closet or even from the ceiling. If you want to split the room you can bring a black out curtain and hang the hooks from the ceil...
Neosmuk Magnetic Hooks, 30lb Heavy Duty
 
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Battery operated nightlight- some of the newer ships have smart lighting that illuminates when it detects motion on the floor (I.e. getting out of bed) but some do not. You may not have extra plug space for the night light so this battery operated on...
Battery Operated Night Lights
 
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Sunscreen is a must! We like blue lizard products
Blue Lizard Sensitive Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen Lotion