LeoEdre

Good point, however I never stay in the room when I'm not sleeping, so I don't really care if it is serviced later. But I understand that it may be a valid reason to wake the kids up for other parents.

Totally agree with you. Dinner and excursions are mandatory, and my daughter never complained. "Naps" of course are not mandatory, but when we come back from an excursion and she looks too tired we "strongly suggest" her to get some rest in room. Otherwise, she is free to do what ever she wants as long as it is allowed by the rules of the ship.

On MSC ships there is no curfew and teenager are allowed in the disco all night, this means a lot of fun for them, but also little sleep, expecially on port intensive cruises. On our last cruise, we let our 14yo stay up really late every night, even when she had to get up early for excursions on the next day, so she actually slept 6 hours or less every night, except for sea days, when she could sleep in. She was really tired of course, so we convinced her to take naps in the afternoon on most port days. Actually, she always had better plans for the afternoon, but we insisted a bit and she surrendered because she knew she was exhausted. Do your teens sleep enough on cruise? Do you enforce early bed times when they have to get up early? Do they ever take naps in the afternoon or before dinner? Do you let them sleep in?