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NCL’s parental consent form is parents’ signed permission for a minor’s cruise. It names the accompanying adult, hands that adult day-to-day care decisions, and carries the parents’ signatures. Parents need it most when a child sails with another adult instead of them.
Below you will find when Norwegian Cruise Line asks for the form, what to gather, how to fill out each line, and short answers to the questions parents ask most.
This section explains what the NCL parental consent form, also searched as the NCL minor consent form, asks parents to fill in for a child who sails with another adult.
It is the cruise line’s own document, not a general permission letter. Parents or legal representatives fill it in, sign it, and give it to the adult who sails with the child.
The form has fields for the children, the cruise, the parents and the accompanying adult. Below them, a block of terms describes how authority passes from the parents to that adult.
| Person | Role on the form | Where they appear |
|---|---|---|
| Parents or legal representatives | Fill in the form, read the terms, date it and sign it | Names, date and signature lines |
| Accompanying adult | Takes over care and decisions for the child during the cruise | Named right after the parents |
| Each child | Listed with a date of birth and a passport or birth certificate number | Children’s names and personal details |
The accompanying adult takes on the parents’ decisions about the child’s care for the cruise, including consent to medical care in an emergency that threatens the child’s health.
The form authorizes that adult to consent to medical services for the child during the cruise; the parents sign the form itself.
Choose someone the child knows and trusts, and read NCL’s current age policy for anything it says about the accompanying adult’s age or stateroom before you choose.
Before the trip, give that person your phone numbers and the child’s health details, such as allergies and medicines.
You need the NCL minor consent form when a child sails on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship without the parents, in the care of another adult. NCL’s own age policy sets which guests count as minors, so check it for your sailing.
If one parent sails with the child, ask Norwegian Cruise Line before the trip which papers it wants for that case.
The NCL form covers the cruise and nothing else. For a flight to the port, a hotel night before boarding or a trip after the sailing, use a separate consent form that names those plans.
A sailing that stops in another country may call for that country’s own consent letter for a minor, so check the entry rules of each port country before the trip.
Norwegian Cruise Line publishes its own age policy for babies, children and young guests, and this page does not repeat it, because the cruise line can change it and it can differ by sailing.
Read NCL’s current age policy for your sailing before you book. Ask the cruise line which papers it wants to see for a minor at check-in.
Parents fill out the form and hand it to the accompanying adult before the trip. Have it ready with the child’s travel documents when the accompanying adult checks in.
Pack the signed form with the child’s travel documents, in the bag the accompanying adult carries on boarding day.
Gather a few details before you start, so you can fill in the whole form in one sitting. Most of them come from your Norwegian Cruise Line booking and from each child’s travel documents.
Fill out the NCL parental consent form from top to bottom: the children, your address, their personal details, the cruise, the names, the terms, the date and the signatures.
Work through the eight steps below in order, and check each line before you move on. Each step shows the part of the form you are filling in.
Enter the name of each child who will sail without you and travel with an accompanying adult. Spell every name exactly as it appears on the child’s passport or birth certificate.
Enter your home address and postal code. Use the address on your cruise booking, so the details on the form match the reservation.
Fill in each child’s personal details: date of birth and the passport or birth certificate number. Copy the numbers straight from the ID so that no digit is wrong.
Fill in the name of a cruise ship, the departure date, and the reservation code on the next line. Also write the stateroom number. Copy each detail from your Norwegian Cruise Line booking so it matches the reservation.
In the next paragraph, enter your names as parents or legal representatives. Then enter the name of the accompanying adult. Write that adult’s full name as it appears on their passport or ID.
The paragraphs below the names set out how authority passes from the parents to the accompanying adult for the duration of the cruise. Read every point so you know what you are agreeing to and how the accompanying adult will act in an emergency.
On the line below the terms, write the date you sign.
On the last two lines, the parents or legal representatives who are signing write down their names and put their signatures. If only one parent or guardian can sign, ask NCL which papers to bring in place of the second signature.
Before you sign, ask Norwegian Cruise Line how it wants the form signed for your sailing, since its own policy decides that.
When you finish, read the whole form once more and check these points:
A few small habits keep the form clean and make the trip smoother for the children and the accompanying adult. Use them as a quick final check before the parents sign.
Parents and legal guardians often ask the same few questions about this Norwegian Cruise Line consent form. The short answers below point back to the steps above, so you can find the right part of the form quickly.
Yes. Parents search for it as the NCL minor consent form, the NCL parent consent form or the Norwegian Cruise Line parental consent form, and all of these names point to the document this page explains.
No, the NCL parental consent form does not let a child sail alone: it names an accompanying adult who sails with the child in the parents’ place. Read NCL’s current age policy for the rules on young guests.
The accompanying adult is the person who travels with your child in your place. You write that person’s name in Step 5.
The parents or legal representatives sign on the last two lines, as Step 8 shows. The accompanying adult is named in Step 5.
Use the NCL form for a Norwegian Cruise Line sailing, because its lines match the booking details and the terms the cruise line works with. A general cruise parental consent form can leave out the reservation code and the handover terms, so ask NCL before you print another version.
Yes, the NCL parental consent form lets the accompanying adult sign consent for medical services to the child during the cruise. A medical form or a special needs request for the child is a separate document, so ask NCL for it.
Read each line once more and use the checklist above. Then keep a signed copy with your travel papers.
General information, not legal or tax advice.
