No Children in Adult Areas!!!

[Learning Conformity]

I would like to point out that while on the Serenade, I wasn't allowed on the giant swirling water slide, because of my ripe old age of 29 (and yes, I did want to go on it!). The kids have the slide, the adults have the solarium! :)

[Weez]

Popcorn....Valium....*****....Nitroglycerin pills....paper bags..... :D

I have no opinion, I've learned my lesson. :D

 

Happy Cruisin' :cool:

 

You forgot about the *****, most of the old farts in the solarium require it :D

[Dave85]

Didn't read the entire thread so this may have been said already, but contrary to what a couple of posters intimated on the 1st page, I have seen card-swiping used as ID to enter the "adult disco". My 2nd cruise on the Voyager they were having an issue with underage individuals sneaking in so they brought a laptop to the door to attach to a swiping mechanism where the picture and info of the individual came up. They did a similar thing one or two nights on my Navigator cruise. Seems simple enough.

 

Point being the technology is readily available should they choose to use it... they already do.

[nrdsb4]

While were at it, I'd like to see bars that have age limits from 21-45 elderly people can be such a drag sometimes.

 

Despite your obvious disdain for the elderly (and be careful what you wish for-you're not very far from being ineligible for these bars you speak about), it really has nothing to do with the argument at hand. I travel with my kids but I do respect the fact that many cruisers want a rare moment away from children. Included in this group are many young people who don't have children yet or who just want a few moments of peace away from their own very dear children.

[DD]

This thread touches a nerve for me. I have a very good friend who sailed on RCI last year. She came home and told me, happily, how they had allowed her young child (2 maybe? not quite 2 at the time?) to dine with them in Portofinos or Chops (I forget which one) and "wasn't that so nice of them...." When I pointed out that, no, it wasn't "so nice of them" it became quite an issue.

 

I explained that as an adult, I wanted to be able to enjoy an adult atmosphere in the restaurant and that did not include toddlers. Of course, that made me out to be the child-hating shrew in her eyes. She was like, "Oh but my child was a perfect little angel" or some similar term. How the child behaved isn't the point. Either it is an adult-only area or it's not.

 

I said that if I was a fellow diner in the restaurant at the time, I would've walked out. I'm not paying for an adult-only evening if that's not what's being delivered. Of course, that was met by horror as to how I could be such an ignorant anti-child discriminator. We've agreed to disagree on it.

[Catnip]

I find that parents think their children should be the exception to the rule in every day life! I am a teacher and parents think that their children are so wonderful that they should be allowed where they are not suppose to be! Where did this come from? When I was a kid, my parents were more than happy to leave me at home and go out without me.:eek:

 

 

AMEN!!!!!! :D