Having never set foot on a cruise ship before, Kelly Coe, the designer and owner of women’s clothing line Augustine, had no idea what to expect when she booked a one-week trip around the Caribbean for her young family.
Historically, cruises have had a bad rap with the belief that they’re an over-crowded, highly commercialised experience for the “newlywed and nearly dead”. But as Kelly, 37, husband Nathan, 44, and their three girls Indiana, nine, Demi, seven, and Havana, three, discovered, there’s so much more to life on the high seas than games of bingo and afternoon tea. With 22 restaurants, hydro slides, swimming pools, abseiling walls, kids’ clubs and a cinema, the stylish mum says that the Royal Caribbean cruise they booked was hands down the highlight of the…