Is late April safe from spring break?

[craig01020]

I'm thinking of booking a 7-day cruise on the Panorama from April 27-May 4, 2024. Is it safe to say that spring break would be over by then?

 

Thanks.

[shof515]

its hard to say because every place in the USA has different spring break schedules

[csm5986142]

Yes, I think so.  

I agree every place is different, but for what it is worth, I have 4 kids and none of them ever had a spring break that late in April.  The younger kids always had the first full week of April off. We have found that to be an extremely common spring break while at WDW or on cruises.  Our college age kid has spring break in early March.

[staceyglow]

Late April would be pretty late for Spring Break for a traditional school schedule. Most of them will be out for the summer break within the following 4-6 weeks. 

[bartleby112]

so last year we did a land based trip over spring break. i googled  something to the likes of "list of college spring breaks".  It was odd because our school gave the kids off the week before Easter.  It turned out that maybe less than a few dozen schools had spring break that week.  go the week before or week after it was hundreds if not thousands. 

But most schools do it late march or right around easter.  i assume you'll be fine

 

[craig01020]

I think I just found the answer to my own question (see link below). (These dates are 2023, not 2024, but there are none as late as April 27.)

 

https://www.studentcity.com/plan-a-trip/when-is-my-spring-break/

[MistyRo76]

My favorite time to cruise is mid-late April! Perfect weather, good prices, and you're usually past all the Spring Break travel but beat the summer travel! Book it! 

[cruisingguy007]

Yes, you should be well away from it, I don't know of any schools going that late in 2024, usually Easter is the latest. 

[Eli_6]

Yes. Spring break is generally in March or, at the very latest, at Easter at every school I have ever been at or had children at...and that includes even a UK school. 

[DB2VA]

The latest college spring break seems to be 4/15 to 4/22. Most are in March.  Your dates are perfect. 

[Elaine5715]

Spring breakers on a 7 day cruise are rare and if there traveling with parents.  

[Badfinger]

If you are talking about grades up through High School, I don't think it really matters.  The kids will be there.  As for college kids...frankly I don't think that many want to do a SEVEN DAY cruise.  My two sons just finished college and their choices for spring break were the beaches in Florida or Texas Padre Islands.  

[Lee Cruiser]

We cruise every April out of Florida, usually the third week of April, sometimes the last week.  We've never had any issue with spring breakers.  Late April is our favorite time to cruise, followed by September.

[eastoftheboston]

I work at a university. By May 4 we're in reading period before finals. You're clear of Spring Break by then!

[ProgRockCruiser]

On 11/6/2022 at 4:21 PM, bartleby112 said:

our school gave the kids off the week before Easter.  It turned out that maybe less than a few dozen schools had spring break that week.  go the week before or week after it was hundreds if not thousands. 

But most schools do it late march or right around easter.  i assume you'll be fine

 

On 11/6/2022 at 5:35 PM, Eli_6 said:

Yes. Spring break is generally in March or, at the very latest, at Easter at every school I have ever been at or had children at...and that includes even a UK school. 

 

On 11/6/2022 at 5:27 PM, cruisingguy007 said:

Yes, you should be well away from it, I don't know of any schools going that late in 2024, usually Easter is the latest. 

Easter is a Moveable Feast.  It can vary anywhere from 22 March to 25 April. (More typically 23 March through 24 April).

 

So all of the above is somewhat nebulous.  I cannot comment on whether schools / boards account for that year's Easter in designating their Spring Break period.

 

What matters for Spring break is getting the kids back in school for enough time before the summer break.  So yes, by mid-April there will be very few schools on Spring Break.

 

In the link provided earlier by another poster, there are only 12 schools (out of almost 1000) with Spring Break planned for the week of 15 April 2023.  All other schools are earlier.

[coops]

We cruise mostly late April and it is the best. No spring breakers that late.