Welcome aboard, Heather! It sounds like you may have a magical Disney Cruise in your future! How exciting! I can tell you from lots of experience sailing on all four of Disney's ships that you're in for a treat, and your children will be in great hands when they enjoy time in the Oceaneer Club and Oceaneer Lab.
Guests are allowed to check their children into the
Youth Clubs while the adults head out into port. Since you're taking one of Disney Cruise Line's Port Adventures, the ship will always know where you are and can reach your Port Adventure guide at any point should they need to. Keeping a cell phone with you is always a good idea too, and you can leave that contact number with the counselors at the Youth Clubs as you let them know you'll be off the ship and the details of your Port Adventure. On the ship and at Castaway Cay, your
Wave Phone is the best way for counselors to reach you, so keep that with you.
You can rest assured that food is not normally served in the clubs, except for the scheduled meals, and those will not include peanut products, but you can ask in the clubs that day what meal they'll be serving. If you haven't done so already, be sure to add a note to your cruise reservation that details your son's peanut allergy. This information is given to the club counselors as well as your servers in the restaurants so that they are aware. Each night, your same servers will rotate with you through the three main dining restaurants, so you won't have to re-explain your son's allergy to a new server each night. Isn't that nice! That's just one of the many perks to sailing with Disney!
I hope those details help as you count down to setting sail, Heather! Stop back again if you have any other questions! I'm happy to help!