trouble all ready?

[emily rose]

I just read that march spring break is the week of april 5.I booked in april to clear spring break and easter. I am booked on the emerald for 10 day cruise am I in trouble all ready.

[Bilyeu5]

I just read that march spring break is the week of april 5.I booked in april to clear spring break and easter. I am booked on the emerald for 10 day cruise am I in trouble all ready.

 

 

Spring break dates vary greatly, even within one community. Where I live, public schools, private schools, and colleges all have different weeks for spring break. Most of the grade and high schools have it in March, and colleges in April. Hoping it won't be as bad as you think!

[paul929207]

Spring break at different schools and school districts can run from early March to mid-April. With a 10 night cruise, you should have fewer "breakers" with you.

[rebeccalouise]

The colleges do break at different times. For example- Gettysburg College breaks from Feb 29- March 10th. Baltimore County Public Schools breaks from March 20-30th. So, I don't think April is going to be chockerblock full of spring breakers. Especially on 10 day cruises.

[emily rose]

One can only hope :confused:

[spongerob]

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Princess seems to do a good job keeping things under control. Plus, you are on a longer cruise so you aren't as likely to get as many younger people on your cruise.

[emily rose]

This will be my first longer cruise and my first with princess.I counting the days.

[Coral]

I have cruised that week 2x and there were plenty of k-12 kids. It seems a lot of elementary schools break in February and then April again. You may have it a tad easier with a 10 night cruise.

 

Spring break goes anywhere from end of February to mid April.

[noblepa]

I just read that march spring break is the week of april 5...

 

"March spring break is the week of april 5"?? Is that like the old Pogo cartoon strip, in which "Friday the 13th falls on a Tuesday, this month"? :)

[Toto2Kansas]

Anytime you cruise the end of March, beginning of April, you will find more families onboard with kids.

The 7 day cruises seem to have double what the 10+ day cruises have.

[beth4652]

As has been previously posted, "spring break" runs from March through April. In general, southern colleges have theirs in early March; then southern public schools; then northern colleges; finally, northern public schools.

 

As has also been said, too, you are not likely to find nearly as many spring breakers on a 10-day.

 

The Emerald is probably big enough to accommodate everyone comfortably.

[DrivesLikeMario]

On our 10 day 3 weeks before Easter, we had over 550 kids under the age of 18. So much for that theory! :rolleyes:

[LEESRE]

Is there any American holidays from 27th January to middle of February 2008.

 

Just wondering!!!

[nimbex1970]

On our 10 day 3 weeks before Easter, we had over 550 kids under the age of 18. So much for that theory! :rolleyes:

 

Were they a problem? While each kid and parent is different, how princess handles the issues is whats important to me.

 

I'd rather have the kids than the crazy partying spring breakers (not the taking a holiday behaved spring breakers). ((don't want to lump ya'll in)).

 

When we sailed the Conquest, spring break a few years back, the ship was 1/3 full of under 18... no problems I saw. So I don't think it should be a problem for you, unless you are specifically trying to get an adult cruise, maybe HAL would be an option? But the 10 nighter looks to be a great vacation, we're looking at booking too.

[caribbean2000]

Uhhh...folks....sorry to "break" it to you but...Spring Breakers are highly unlikely to do Princess (think Carnival or one of the real cheapo 4-day things out of Florida) and hang out with we oldsters! Yes, there may be a fair number of kids on board at that time, but in our 8 cruises at that time of year with Princess, we've never seen any major problems. No worries!

[caribbean2000]

...and oh yeah - not trying offend anyone - remember that in the eyes of college-age kids like ours, ANYONE over the age of 30 qualifies as an oldster!

[chef Brian]

Emily,

are you on the 10 day from april 4th -14th 2008? if so you should join our roll call we have a nice group of people that are very friendly!! and quite a few people from canada..hope to see you there soon take care and have a great day Chef Brian.....p.s. if you have any questions about princess cruise line i would be happy to answer i have been on a bunch!

[emily rose]

Yes I am on the emerald on the april the 4.What is roll call.

[Stevesan]

Uhhh...folks....sorry to "break" it to you but...Spring Breakers are highly unlikely to do Princess (think Carnival or one of the real cheapo 4-day things out of Florida) and hang out with we oldsters! Yes, there may be a fair number of kids on board at that time, but in our 8 cruises at that time of year with Princess, we've never seen any major problems. No worries!

 

We sailed Grand Princess during Spring Break, early March, in 2005 and 2006. Had 700+ kids on board both times.

 

GP was sailing out of Galveston then with a majority of Texans and other regional passengers, so we had very few problems with the younguns.

But there were a lot of them!:)

[BJS]

Uhhh...folks....sorry to "break" it to you but...Spring Breakers are highly unlikely to do Princess (think Carnival or one of the real cheapo 4-day things out of Florida) and hang out with we oldsters! Yes, there may be a fair number of kids on board at that time, but in our 8 cruises at that time of year with Princess, we've never seen any major problems. No worries!

 

I doubt there are any major problems that Princess doesn't respond to.

 

Depending on what one perceives as a problem there can be minor issues such as these we saw on a 7 day Caribbean cruise out of San Juan the week before Easter with many children onboard: Running down the halls at 3 AM knocking on doors, laughing and yelling to each other; riding up and down in the elevators; pusing all the elevator buttons so they stop at each floor, tearing balloons and other things off the doors, taking name tags from doors, throwing things off the ship, and over whelming the swimming pools. The ship had very few College "Spring Breakers" that we saw but many teens that seemed to be doing these things. The younger children appeared to be more under their parents control.

[Toto2Kansas]

I doubt there are any major problems that Princess doesn't respond to.

 

Depending on what one perceives as a problem there can be minor issues such as these we saw on a 7 day Caribbean cruise out of San Juan the week before Easter with many children onboard: Running down the halls at 3 AM knocking on doors, laughing and yelling to each other; riding up and down in the elevators; pusing all the elevator buttons so they stop at each floor, tearing balloons and other things off the doors, taking name tags from doors, throwing things off the ship, and over whelming the swimming pools. The ship had very few College "Spring Breakers" that we saw but many teens that seemed to be doing these things. The younger children appeared to be more under their parents control.

 

That is exactly what we found on our last spring break cruise, notice I said "the LAST". There were just too many unsupervised children onboard. Not college kids, but kids 7-17 that ran all hours around the ship doing whatever they would please. There are just too many other months of the year to cruise and thus we try to avoid any spring break cruises that this might happen again.

Don't blame the kids folks, kids will be kids no matter what the situation when they think nobody is looking. I feel there are far too many parents out there that feel that the kids will be fine, what trouble can they get into they are confined on a ship? :eek: :eek:

We once met a parent onboard that would turn her 7 year old loose at 7:00 AM and the come to dinner (late seating) laughing how she had not seen him all day but had heard he was OK from others that did. She last heard he was eating dinner at the buffet in his swimsuit and the staff was taking very good care of him???????????????????????? Not their job!

[DrivesLikeMario]

Are there any American holidays from 27th January to middle of February 2008. Just wondering!!!

 

Yes, there's Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 21 this year, then there's two 3-day weekends (for some Americans - others only get one 3-day weekend) on Feb. 11 & again on Feb. 18, 2008.

 

Nimbex1970 - Yes, there were more problems on that cruise than any other we've ever been on. Kids were playing elevator tag, sitting on the floor of the aft elevators eating food on plates from the Horizon Court, running around in their pajamas at 10:30 at night, screaming with glee as they ran up & down the stairs playing tag, teens laying all over the huge piles of chair pads from the covered pool chaise lounges at 12:30 at night while talking and goofing around, kids laying all over the hallway outside of the kids' center, talking, eating pizza and goofing around and that's just to name a few of the things we saw. As parents cruising with teens, perhaps we noticed more.

 

The funny thing was that on the last night of the cruise, Princess staff appeared wearing yellow vests that said "Security" on them and suddenly, all the antics stopped. It's just too bad it was the last night.

 

Shortly after this cruise, Princess starting having something called "Youth Patrol" during the high-kid populated cruises. I do think it has helped, but by the evidence of our last March cruise, it hasn't stopped it all together. I think that's up to the parents & unfortunately too many of them aren't willing to parent because they're too busy having "me" time. :rolleyes:

[DrivesLikeMario]

Oh - and Toto, I totally agree. Can't wait until the day when we don't have to cruise during school breaks! You're right - it's the parents, not the kids! ;)

[beatriz22]

going 3-22 golden to mexico, 7 day. there are 2 h schools here in the area that have 2 diffrent spring break dates, so who knows,2 yrsago we went woiht ur aprnets, it was spring break it was a night mare on royal carribbean, kids teens everywhere, ut it was the little kids that were the ba dbews with parents not disiciplining a 1 of them ,...kids dumping raw eggs down to the main lobby atrium level from an upper balcony level, , hitting all the buttons on elevators, screaming running up / down the hallways,runing thru the casino, you name it, it happend, and lets not forget about the kids OWNING THE POOL AREAS, THE SHIP, DID A POOR POOR JOB OF ENSURING EVERYONE HA D FUN , THEY DIDNT CARE , so lets hope for all of us we have good times

[DrivesLikeMario]

going 3-22 golden to mexico, 7 day. there are 2 h schools here in the area that have 2 diffrent spring break dates, so who knows,2 yrsago we went woiht ur aprnets, it was spring break it was a night mare on royal carribbean, kids teens everywhere, ut it was the little kids that were the ba dbews with parents not disiciplining a 1 of them ,...kids dumping raw eggs down to the main lobby atrium level from an upper balcony level, , hitting all the buttons on elevators, screaming running up / down the hallways,runing thru the casino, you name it, it happend, and lets not forget about the kids OWNING THE POOL AREAS, THE SHIP, DID A POOR POOR JOB OF ENSURING EVERYONE HA D FUN , THEY DIDNT CARE , so lets hope for all of us we have good times

 

Just to warn you - our entire school district here in So. Cal. gets out then for two weeks. Should be lots of locals on that cruise.

 

I've found if you stay away from the kids' area and the elevators right by it, it does make it somewhat better. Of course, if you have kids, it can be a little hard to avoid that area. :cool: