Teens on Cruises out of San Juan?

[cindivan]

My son is looking at cruises for his spring break of his senior year in HS for himself and a few friends. I have volunteered to be one of the chaperones (yikes)! We are looking at different cruises. He likes the port-intensive cruises out of San Juan, but is worried that the teen (17-19 yo) quotient will be low on cruises out of San Juan.

 

Does anyone have any knowledge about this?

 

thanks!

[Clarea]

I see a wide variety of age groups on Adventure, including teens.

[emeraldcity]

We did a spring break cruise out of San Juan when my DD was 16. DD connected with a number of kids her own age. The only drawback was that they combined the younger teens with the older teens for evening activities and she labeled that whole concept "lame". She and her new found friends struck off on their own to go do things like mini-golf and hanging out in the Solarium.

[xxoocruiser]

My son is looking at cruises for his spring break of his senior year in HS for himself and a few friends. I have volunteered to be one of the chaperones (yikes)! We are looking at different cruises. He likes the port-intensive cruises out of San Juan, but is worried that the teen (17-19 yo) quotient will be low on cruises out of San Juan.

 

Does anyone have any knowledge about this?

 

thanks!

 

You need to check out RCCL's booking policy which states :

 

No Guest younger than the age twenty-one (21) will be assigned to a stateroom unless accompanied in the same stateroom by an adult twenty-one (21) years old or older. A guest's age is established upon the first date of sailing.

 

This age limit will be waived for children sailing with their parents or guardians in connecting staterooms; for underage married couples; and for active duty members of the United States or Canadian military.

 

 

Here's the link http://www.royalcaribbean.com/customersupport/faq/details.do?pagename=frequently_asked_questions&pnav=5&pnav=2&faqType=faq&faqSubjectId=333&faqSubjectName=Onboard+Policies&faqId=309

Edited September 3, 2014 by xxoocruiser

[dancinman66]

There should be plenty during spring break plus he is already going with some friends

Shouldn't be a problem

 

 

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[OCruisers]

During Spring Break there'll be many others. Enjoy! :D

LuLu

[gerif]

You mentioned an age range of 17-19. Just note that the 17 year olds will be allowed to participate in the teen club while the older teens will not. Those 18-19 year olds will be allowed in the casino and the disco after 10 p.m. while the 17 year olds will not.

[cindivan]

Thanks for the advice about teen requirements and the different activities the 17 vs 18yo can do. Please note I said "one" of the chaperones, so we have worked through that issue. And the boys know about the 17-18yo thing and are ok with it. Not great, but they want to be with their friends.

 

We really just wanted to know if there are a lot of teens out of San Juan vs. the US homeports. It sounds like maybe not as many based on emeraldcity's comment. I know our kids have been combined with other age groups when there are not as many kids (usually fall break - if they are doing this on spring break that is pretty telling to me).

 

The 18yo is such a weird age for cruises anyway. Too old for teen club, too young to drink (on the ship anyway). But I still think it's a better option for them than going to a FL beach that is going to be ton of college spring breakers. Now that thought freaks me out a little. They just want to do something special for their last spring break together and its crazy that it is so hard to find something. It's just that age group. When I was that age, we went to FL, the drinking age was 19 so 18 wasn't that far off (does that date me???!!!).

[rummenroman]

I have taken 3 cruises out of San Juan, 2 in January and one in May. The January cruises were booked with the hope there would be limited kids onboard. I work with teens at home, and would prefer to not see many on vacation. The 2 January cruises were relatively teen free.

 

The cruise in May was just before school was to let out. There were teens all over. They were all well behaved, but there was plenty of them. I'm going to say that spring break cruises will have plenty of teens for your group to join up with!