Any suggestions for traveling with an 18 year old on the Liberty

[bb2]

Our family is looking forward to our second Carnival Cruise. But we are concerned about what activities are available for our daughter who will just have turned 18 - 4 days prior to embarking on our cruise.

 

Does anyone know if there are meet and greets for the 18-21 year old age group with special (safe/age appropriate) activities geared towards this young adult group. Or even preferably if she will still be able to hang with club 02 if she desires since she will only have turned 18 so recently before our cruise.

 

Any input or suggestions would be greatly appreciated - thanks

[zqvol]

Our family is looking forward to our second Carnival Cruise. But we are concerned about what activities are available for our daughter who will just have turned 18 - 4 days prior to embarking on our cruise.

 

Does anyone know if there are meet and greets for the 18-21 year old age group with special (safe/age appropriate) activities geared towards this young adult group. Or even preferably if she will still be able to hang with club 02 if she desires since she will only have turned 18 so recently before our cruise.

 

Any input or suggestions would be greatly appreciated - thanks

 

My son (who is 20) and I have traveled each of the past three summers on a boys cruise. The only problem is that I never see him. I can tell you that based on my experience your daughter will have as much to do as she want, and will not have any trouble meeting people her own age. What do they do? I have no idea, other than I have been told that they have a great time.

 

Sometimes I think that as parents we worry too much about them between the ages of 17 and 22 or 23. I know that I do, but IMO if we as parents have done a good job, they will make us proud (well most of the time . . . :) . . . lol).

[MicksMom]

Our DD has just turned 19 when we cruised in January. She is a very outgoing person & I figured we wouldn't see much of her but to our surprise, she pretty much stayed with us & her aunt & uncle. Now she is an only child so she may be more use to hanging with us but she was never bored. She would lay out if she didn't want to do what we were doing. I will say that she was rather embarrased sitting with us at one of the late night comedy acts. She chose to skip the 2nd one which was actually a lot cleaner & I know she would have enjoyed it.

 

We had set up a meet & greet for all the teen/college kids to meet but due to ship leaving 5 hours late (stupid fog) that never happened. We did meet up a few times with one of the families that I had met on our roll call.

 

Regardless, your DD will have a blast. We are taking boyfriend along in January, so that ones, we probably will never see her except in the room.

 

MicksMom

[G'ma]

Our family is looking forward to our second Carnival Cruise. But we are concerned about what activities are available for our daughter who will just have turned 18 - 4 days prior to embarking on our cruise.

 

Does anyone know if there are meet and greets for the 18-21 year old age group with special (safe/age appropriate) activities geared towards this young adult group. Or even preferably if she will still be able to hang with club 02 if she desires since she will only have turned 18 so recently before our cruise.

 

Any input or suggestions would be greatly appreciated - thanks

 

She cannot hang in the teen clubs...at 18, she's considered and adult and they are not permitted in the younger kids activities.

 

She can do anything on the ship except drink.....so, the entire ship is open to her... There will be plenty others around her age. Just let her do her own thing.

[Scott_F]

I'm going to get flamed for this but, here goes...

 

My son hated all organized teen activities. My son traveled RCCL at age 15, then Carnival at 17 and 19. He gambled slots at 15 when no one was looking (he'd dress in his dockers and button down shirt and he looked over 18). Mom and I weren't too thrilled when he marched in with a bucket of quarters totally about 500 bucks but we got over it. He was scared to go to the cashier being underaged.

 

At 17, he was only a few weeks short of 18 and all his buddies on this HS graduation cruise were 18, so we let him gamble (his money). Of course he got on a heater and turned it into really good money.

 

This past cruise, our luck sucked. But as he had chewed thru his nest egg, he got lucky on a slot the last day and made it all back breaking even.

 

Point to all this... if you like to gamble (and my wife and I do), the cruise ship is a great place for adults to have some fun. Your daughter is 4 days short of being an adult in Carnivals' casino eyes. Give her a hundred bucks and teach her to play black jack. Or craps. By day 4, she'll be 18, right? If you gamble, teach her to gamble correctly. I know it sounds crazy, but it's a life lesson in my mind. I do not condone underaged drinking or anything else that's ilegal in the name of "life lesson". But, after day 4, she's legal.

 

She's an adult. Club 02 will not be as fun as you might think. :) Obviously if you and your spouse do not approve of gambling, that's cool. Leaves more room at the table for the rest of us.