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Old 04-24-2008, 01:33 PM   #1
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Are cruise ships as child-friendly as they claim to be? With her 13-year-old daughter’s help, Jane Archer pits a casual three-star line against a five-star one. Here, they sail with family-friendly Ocean Village.

As soon as I spotted “canyoning” in Ocean Village’s shore excursion booklet, I knew that my fate for our day in Villefranche was sealed. I tried to tempt my daughter Ilana with another almost-as-exciting option, but I knew I was wasting my breath.

So here I was, one of the eldest among a group of about 12 mad Britons, about to while away the next couple of hours scrambling over rocks and boulders in a river, in water that registered a very chilly 15C.

Because this was France, there was no ceremony. Our changing room - “ wetsuits are a must, not just because of the cold but for protection against the rocks” - was a canvas sheet spread on the ground of a lay-by beside the narrow winding road we had followed from Nice. .....
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