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Is this the perfect cruise-starter holiday for a family?

Cruise
Katherine Masters
24 June 2025

Our features editor’s children had never been cruising before – but would all the attractions onboard Marella Discovery 2, plus new discoveries ashore, make up for their mum’s lack of enthusiasm for a cruise ship buffet

Marella Discovery 2

The view as Marella Discovery 2 sails away from Marmaris © Katherine Masters

Disaster strikes onboard Marella Discovery 2. Amy goes missing. Somewhere between the kids’ club and our cabin. My six-year-old daughter has a lonely night without her.

The next morning, we retrace our steps from the night before – which is practically the length of the ship – and find Amy, a much-loved cuddly, safe and well, propped up on the housekeeping trolley of cabin attendant Lubaib, who had scooped her off the corridor floor a few hours earlier.