What Age?

[A4Disney]

At what age would you leave your kids in the hotel room to have dinner in the same resorts restaurant?

 

[SleepingUgly]

Do you mean alone, or with a babysitter?

Linda

 

[DISNEYFAMILYOFFOUR]

Never. Then again, my children are 5 & 6 so I am a long, long way off in answering this question.

 

[doubletrouble_vb]

when they are all teens.

of course I don't have any.

 

[sweetinmaine]

The first time we let our kids stay alone in a hotel room was when our daughter was 17 and our son was 14. Over protective?? No way...They are priceless...Did I mention they were with their 3 cousins who were the same ages?

 

[DVC Jen]

We did when our two DDs were 14 and 10. They had a cell phone in the room with them and we had another with us. We were in the same resort WL.. and just went down to get a drink at the bar.

They were are both good mature kids and know better to open the locked door to ANYONE but us.

It worked out fine, but I really do think it depends on the kids involved.

 

[LucyStorm]

My youngest is 16, and the answer is still never. At home, yes, but not out on vacation where she is unfamiliar territory.

 

[copper68]

we left our twin 13 yr old boys.. with a cell phone.. and STRICT instructions..
only for like an hour.. and i think we called 3 times.. haha

 

[ncbyrne]

This question is impossible for me to answer without knowing the children personally. DH and I have 5 kids (all grown now with their own families). When they were growing up they all had completely different maturity levels. One of our DDs I would have left alone at age 12. Two of the boys I don't think I would have EVER let them stay alone in a hotel room! Only you know your kids well enough to make a decision this important.

 

[weregoingtodw]

At what age would you leave your kids in the hotel room to have dinner in the same resorts restaurant?

Since my daughter is an only child, I can't imagine leaving her regardless. Heck, I'll worry like crazy when she's 18! Maybe if she had an older brother or something, but a girl? Just way too much risk involved there.

 

[biz410]

This question is impossible for me to answer without knowing the children personally. DH and I have 5 kids (all grown now with their own families). When they were growing up they all had completely different maturity levels. One of our DDs I would have left alone at age 12. Two of the boys I don't think I would have EVER let them stay alone in a hotel room! Only you know your kids well enough to make a decision this important.

That's it.

It depends on the kids. What's right for one is not for another.

I would use a minimum age of 13, though.

 

[mill4023]

My oldest is about to turn 10 and we just started letting him walk 1 block to his friends house. And I still worry about that. In a hotel room? I don't know, maybe 14?

I don't think I'm overprotective though, I just think everyone else is underprotective.

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

DS13 and DD(almost)15 are 2nd degree blackbelts and very mature for their ages. I still wouldn't leave them alone in a hotel room for more than a few minutes.

 

[pepe of ohio]

I feel this way, I hate people who go on vacation, like to Vegas, and leave their kids at home cause they are too small, but in WDW, we have always taken our children, the boy at 7 and the girl at 1 and we go for the kids, that was over 30 years ago and many trips, where we go they go, on property they can go just about anywhere and if they can't we don't go there. To us, after they have grown, we still go to WDW, just the old 2 of us and enjoy ourselves and do the same things we have done a million times. Before it was their turn, now its ours, and yes, they sometimes still go down with us!! Once a disney lover, always a disney lover!!

 

[Disney Spaz]

We have 2 DS's now 14 & 15 and it was just this past Christmas trip that I allowed them to go to the resort arcade while my DH and I did laundry. Well both DS's have cell phones and my DH and I told the boys to come back in 1 hour. Needless to say when they weren't back in an hour both my DH, who by the way had talked me into letting the boys go by themselves because they were old enough , were freaking out. We called their cells over and over again with no answer. By the time we raced into the arcade panicked and so both DS's playing air hockey our fear turned to anger like I cannot descirbe. The look on my DH's face was enough to send both DS's into their own level of fear. Then my DH told me to bring them back to the room so he could calm down and take a walk. My DS's were even more freaked by the fact their DD didn't say anything. Me and DS's walked back to the room and I calmly explained what had been going through our minds and how we would feel if something ever happened to them. When DH came back to the room he calmly told them to never do that to us again and for the rest of the trip my two DS's were the best behave I have ever seen them in my life.
***To full understand why DH reacted this way you need to know that my DH adopted my DS's. And that 5 years ago my DS's were waiting after school for me to pick them up and I was running late. My DS's biological father called me on my cell, told me he was taking the boys and literally blew by me on the interstae going 90 MPH. Luckily I got in touch with my DH and he got to the boys first. In fact as DH was pulling out of one end of the bus lanes biological dad was pulling in at the other. Since then a court order keeps him from entering their school but I don't think my DH will ever not worry about losing his DS's.