18 year old in a hotel without parent

[mnrose]

Sorry, I know this is an older query, but I was just wondering something similar.

My daughter is going with a school group. She is seventeen.

She just found out who she will room with. I assume it will be at a Disney Value resort. Will find out at a meeting in a couple of days.

I keep telling my daughter an adult chaperone will have to be in the room with three girls. She says not.

With the kids being under 18, wouldn’t that be the case?

It was of course booked thru the school.

Thanks for any info.

I am regretting not signing up as a chaperone. I just wanted to give my daughter some space.

No.

I've chaperoned high school overnight trips. The only requirement is that there be adult chaperones IN the hotel. The chaperones shared rooms (two to a room), while the kids were 4 to a room. Ages 15-17. If there were 18 years olds, I sure didn't know it. Not a problem at all.

 

[DopeyDame]

I am really glad to read that in the case of a bump, or flight delay the airport hotels will let am underage teen check in with a voucher. I will rest easier now when one of my kids is travelling (it is hard to avoid connections with the cities they end up going between)

My friend's daughter was in a similar situation and her mom had to fax (which isn't so easy these days!) a letter saying that her DD had permission to stay at the hotel alone that night. I think most hotels - especially ones near airports - have some policies for situations like that.

 

[NHdisneylover]

My friend's daughter was in a similar situation and her mom had to fax (which isn't so easy these days!) a letter saying that her DD had permission to stay at the hotel alone that night. I think most hotels - especially ones near airports - have some policies for situations like that.

Thanks. Thankfully my kids are now 22 and 20 so it's no longer issue for our family.
It's an old thread which was recently bumped up with a new question.

 

[DopeyDame]

Thanks. Thankfully my kids are now 22 and 20 so it's no longer issue for our family.
It's an old thread which was recently bumped up with a new question.

Oops! Stupid zombie threads

 

[Wishing on a star]

Still a valid thread!
A lot of people probably looking forward to Spring Break and Graduations.

I would def. recommend that you do check with the resort.
Some hotels/resorts/etc do require that an adult over the age of 21 (or older) reserve and check-in.
Some will have this policy in place specifically during times like Spring Break or Graduation, because of the craziness.

We cruised with our son when he was a young adult under 21... As long as we were there, Princess fine with younger adult being in a room.
The policy isn't clear, and I think they have it that way to give them some recourse and discretion. The online system would not let us book, but it was easy by phone, or thru our TA.

 

[tcufrog]

Sorry, I know this is an older query, but I was just wondering something similar.

My daughter is going with a school group. She is seventeen.

She just found out who she will room with. I assume it will be at a Disney Value resort. Will find out at a meeting in a couple of days.

I keep telling my daughter an adult chaperone will have to be in the room with three girls. She says not.

With the kids being under 18, wouldn’t that be the case?

It was of course booked thru the school.

Thanks for any info.

I am regretting not signing up as a chaperone. I just wanted to give my daughter some space.

I went on some church group trips in high school. I didn't have adult chaperones in my rooms.

 

[mjkacmom]

Sorry, I know this is an older query, but I was just wondering something similar.

My daughter is going with a school group. She is seventeen.

She just found out who she will room with. I assume it will be at a Disney Value resort. Will find out at a meeting in a couple of days.

I keep telling my daughter an adult chaperone will have to be in the room with three girls. She says not.

With the kids being under 18, wouldn’t that be the case?

It was of course booked thru the school.

Thanks for any info.

I am regretting not signing up as a chaperone. I just wanted to give my daughter some space.

Kids as young as 13 sleep four kids to a hotel room, no chaperone. By 17, my kids were renting weekend prom houses (obviously no chaperone). They are all going off to college!

 

[mumumouse]

Kids as young as 13 sleep four kids to a hotel room, no chaperone. By 17, my kids were renting weekend prom houses (obviously no chaperone). They are all going off to college!

I was unsure of Disney’s policy on this. I have since found out they make an exception with school groups. Never a matter of not trusting the kids. Actually in our case I think my kid is more competent than the teachers. Sadly, I am not joking.

 

[mjkacmom]

I was unsure of Disney’s policy on this. I have since found out they make an exception with school groups. Never a matter of not trusting the kids. Actually in our case I think my kid is more competent than the teachers. Sadly, I am not joking.

I think most 17 year old are pretty competent. Dd17 is flying several states away with her bff to a dance competition in April (turns 18 this month) will shuttle to the airport hotel and uber back and forth to the competition, no chaperones. I know they’ll be fine.

 

[mumumouse]

Now my main concern is the kids not having FPs.

The teacher did not see the point of getting them in advance.

They will be on Disney property.

They could have selected them 60 days ahead.

Another reason I could not join on this trip.

The poor planning would have driven me absolutely nuts.

No FPs during Spring Break.

Utter insanity.

Not to mention a waste of time and money.

They will have fun despite it all, but I just can’t operate that way.

I sent an email to the teacher and parents. I don’t think anyone really cares.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Probably lots of gray areas under18.
When we were going to see college for daughter, on way home we met her friends as they were going to stay upstate for a concert.
Rented a room for them but and they are good kids but still was nervous. You never know how stupid a high school kid can be.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Now my main concern is the kids not having FPs.

The teacher did not see the point of getting them in advance.

They will be on Disney property.

They could have selected them 60 days ahead.

Another reason I could not join on this trip.

The poor planning would have driven me absolutely nuts.

No FPs during Spring Break.

Utter insanity.

Not to mention a waste of time and money.

They will have fun despite it all, but I just can’t operate that way.

I sent an email to the teacher and parents. I don’t think anyone really cares.

It's a school trip. Normally the kids divide into small groups once there---not everyone together all the time. It'S a totally different animal than a personal family trip---as you say, surely the kids will have fun wth their friends. It sounds like it is a very good thing that you are not chaperoning---you and hte kids will be better off if this style of group trael drives you crazy.

 

[longboard55]

Our daughter and her friends went to Waikiki unchaperoned for high school graduation and had a great time. But several parents were hesitant, which is a little strange because they were sending them 1000s of miles away to live with total strangers in a few weeks when they went off to college.

 

[WDWJDS]

Our daughter and her friends went to Waikiki unchaperoned for high school graduation and had a great time. But several parents were hesitant, which is a little strange because they were sending them 1000s of miles away to live with total strangers in a few weeks when they went off to college.

I don’t know about anybody else, but to me a trip to Hawaii for a bunch of 18 year olds is a tad different than a mostly organized initial enrollment at a college, where you are told what to do and where to be, at what time, etc. A few high school grads wandering an island that they have never been to before (probably) is different than thousands of grads being led around and advised what to do during the initial days of college. There is somewhat of a bubble on college campuses.

 

[mjkacmom]

I don’t know about anybody else, but to me a trip to Hawaii for a bunch of 18 year olds is a tad different than a mostly organized enrollment at a college, where you are told everything to do and where to be, at what time, etc. A few high school grads wandering an island that they have never been to before (probably) is different than thousands of grads being led around and advised what to do during the initial days of college. There is somewhat of a bubble on college campuses.

I think it depends on the college. Dd22 graduated from a huge urban campus (over 37,000 students and they took shuttle buses to different campuses), it's a city in a city. There was not a lot of handholding, but by then she had flown alone a lot, and had taken buses from NYC to and from Boston many times. A friends trip to Hawaii wouldn’t been a lot easier to navigate than her first semester in college.

 

[longboard55]

I don’t know about anybody else, but to me a trip to Hawaii for a bunch of 18 year olds is a tad different than a mostly organized enrollment at a college, where you are told everything to do and where to be, at what time, etc. A few high school grads wandering an island that they have never been to before (probably) is different than thousands of grads being led around and advised what to do during the initial days of college. There is somewhat of a bubble on college campuses.

My college experience was a little different than you describe

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

WDW resort hotels are 18+.
Other hotels? You'd have to look at their policies.