What Are Children Not Allowed To Do?

[trixiee]

6 hours ago, AFNavigator said:

Sure they are.  The 10 year old isn't cruising by him/herself.  The OP is bringing their 10 yo child with them.

Pretty sure he was being facetious! 🤗

[AFNavigator]

2 hours ago, trixiee said:

Pretty sure he was being facetious! 🤗

I would sure hope so but you never know.

 

Oh yeah, minimum age for the fitness center is 16 unless accompanied by an adult.

[1of4]

53 minutes ago, AFNavigator said:

Oh yeah, minimum age for the fitness center is 16 unless accompanied by an adult.

They wouldn’t even allow us to use a mat, with supervision, for my 12 year old (at the time) to keep up her stretches for competing gymnastics!

[MAVIP]

21 minutes ago, 1of4 said:

They wouldn’t even allow us to use a mat, with supervision, for my 12 year old (at the time) to keep up her stretches for competing gymnastics!

Exactly; my grandson,  at 12 as well as at 14 yrs was not allowed in the fitness center. We will wait and see, next cruise is in April/May and he will be 16 just a fortnight after the cruise.......

[cruisemom42]

13 hours ago, SDARCH said:

I'm a Gen X-er.  Grew up free range and as a 10 yo could be miles from home and my parents wouldn't even know.  They would set us loose at Walt Disney World (1970s) and I have no doubt, if allowed back then, they would have had no problem letting us wander in a port on our own.  Different times.

 

Right there with you -- born at the start of Gen X.  I remember taking an Alaska cruise with my parents in 1977 on a Sitmar ship. In one port where we tendered, a group of friends and I just got on the tender boat and rode back and forth for several hours. No one thought anything of it even though we were mostly 13-15 years old at the time.

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by cruisemom42

[BermudaBound2014]

I'm also a Gen Xer (but I didn't start cruising until 87) and agree that times are very different. BUT, on other lines I do see large groups of kids/teens wandering without parents. I always chuckle because the group gets bigger as the cruise progresses and they seem to always park in a stairwell :-D. 

[daisy-mae]

33 minutes ago, BermudaBound2014 said:

I'm also a Gen Xer (but I didn't start cruising until 87) and agree that times are very different. BUT, on other lines I do see large groups of kids/teens wandering without parents. I always chuckle because the group gets bigger as the cruise progresses and they seem to always park in a stairwell :-D. 

We were on a Med cruise with MSC a few years ago. I guess the prices must be attractive to school groups as there was a gang of marauding teens running up and down the hallways at all hours of the night - with the monitors/chaperones nowhere to be found. Repeated calls to security were useless as the kids kept outrunning them.

[fatcat04]

On 10/31/2022 at 10:42 AM, Roz said:

They can play bingo but if they win, an adult has to be present to claim the prize.

I had no idea.. can they really?? I thought all casino was off limits. 

Edited November 2, 2022 by fatcat04

[fatcat04]

On 10/31/2022 at 6:20 PM, SDARCH said:

I'm a Gen X-er.  Grew up free range and as a 10 yo could be miles from home and my parents wouldn't even know.  They would set us loose at Walt Disney World (1970s) and I have no doubt, if allowed back then, they would have had no problem letting us wander in a port on our own.  Different times.

Us too. We weren't "latch key kids" per se but pretty close. My mom was always "be home by dark." But all the responsible adults around us felt comfortable correcting our bad behavior without being prosecuted too. You always knew where everyone was by whose yard the pile of bicycles was in. Good times.. maybe even the best of times. 

Edited November 2, 2022 by fatcat04

[Shmoo here]

21 minutes ago, fatcat04 said:

I had no idea.. can they really?? I thought all casino was off limits. 

Bingo usually isn't IN the casino.  Typically played in one of the lounges (during the daytime).  

[fatcat04]

9 minutes ago, Shmoo here said:

Bingo usually isn't IN the casino.  Typically played in one of the lounges (during the daytime).  

Okay.. had no idea. Just figured it was gambling so a casino enterprise. 

[Roz]

I also believe an adult has to BUY the bingo cards.

[SDARCH]

12 hours ago, fatcat04 said:

Good times.. maybe even the best of times. 

Yes!  And so true about the pile of bikes in a yard.

[whogo]

19 hours ago, fatcat04 said:

I had no idea.. can they really?? I thought all casino was off limits. 

One of the Club Hal activities for my kids was a lesson in playing casino games. Between that and all the movies they watched, I wasn't real pleased with Club Hal. Ancient history, this would have been in the last millennium.

 

Back in the 60's our county attorney busted a bingo game for gambling infractions and hauled the blue haired ladies off to jail. Times change.