USS Alabama Adventure Completed
01/18/2025 through 01/19/2025
Nearest Hospital: USA Health Childrens Hospital
For our big January trip for this school year we are planning to stay onboard a retired WWII battleship, the USS Alabama, in Mobile, Al.
We'll need to all arrive at the ship between 4 and 5 p.m. We all have to be present to check in and board. We can have pizzas delivered to the ship for dinner. There are microwaves available if you need to bring in your own food due to dietary restrictions. We'll get up the next morning we'll get up and explore areas of the site we missed the night before, including the aircraft pavilion and the USS Drums submarine.
The morning tour will take around three hours. We will be sleeping in bunks on the ship used by service members at sea. The bunks are below deck and accessed by ladder.
The ship has some policies that everyone needs to be aware of when deciding if they can go on this trip: There are separate sleeping areas for males and females. Also, only cubs and their legal guardians are allowed to stay overnight. No additional family members. No one under the age of six. If you have a situation where a young child who is the opposite gender of you isn't comfortable sleeping in a different area than you, or you have additional family members who would like to join us, it is possible for you to join us until 8 p.m. the first day, stay somewhere in town, then return the next morning to join us touring the ship. Children under the age of 6 are also allowed to participate in this way.
Please reach out to me if you need details for doing the trip in this manner. That said, in emailing with the staff I was told, "The funnest touring time is the evening of your stay! That’s when you explore as if you run the ship!" so you want to stay onboard if possible.