How strict is RCI Harmony on the age limit for the Escape the Rubicon puzzle room?

[katiel53]

Does the reason have to be "scariness"? It's not. They set an age limit because they feel that this is an activity for more mature minds. They (or the creators of the escape rooms) have set 14 as that minimum limit.

 

As the original poster said, people do NOT like these questions. Why does someone ALWAYS have to push the limits? Why can't you just accept that there ARE limits? As another poster stated, not everyone wants to be locked in a room with your precocious and precious little 11 year old for an hour.

 

I can't go into Adventure Ocean, no matter how immature I may be. The inverse holds true here.

 

 

Totally agree. It appears that today's society definitely feels the rules don't apply to them or their families. Push, push, push is the theme.

[Bird82]

Im 36 years old. I Don't go play at monkey joes or chuck e cheese. Why? Because its meant for kids. Escape rooms are meant for mature teens and adults. The puzzles are too difficult for kids and a lot of adults don't want to be locked in a room with kids for an hour. I think the 14 year old age is too young. It should be 16 And older or 18 and older in my opinion.

[Merion_Mom]

Your sister gives her 11 year old alcohol?! Wow.

You took the words right out of my fingers! 😳😳😳😳

[loreleii2]

Does the reason have to be "scariness"? It's not. They set an age limit because they feel that this is an activity for more mature minds. They (or the creators of the escape rooms) have set 14 as that minimum limit.

 

As the original poster said, people do NOT like these questions. Why does someone ALWAYS have to push the limits? Why can't you just accept that there ARE limits? As another poster stated, not everyone wants to be locked in a room with your precocious and precious little 11 year old for an hour.

 

I can't go into Adventure Ocean, no matter how immature I may be. The inverse holds true here.

 

WELL SAID! 👏🏻👏🏻 I 100% agree--what happened to the days of these are the rules you follow them!! Everyone pushes the limits IF AND ONLY IF it works for them.. like the post below--what if I want to smoke in the rubicon?? To some individuals, having a child around is the same feeling as sitting next to a smoker! You are a guest on RCL if you don't like their rules you can certainly choose NOT to sail!

[ldubs]

<delete>

[ldubs]

I know everyone hates these types of questions, but how strict is RCI about the 14-year-old age limit for the Escape the Rubicon puzzle room on Harmony of the Seas? On our next cruise our sons will be 14 and almost 12, and they would both absolutely LOVE this. Any chance of an exception for the age requirement? (As an aside, I'm never one to try to circumvent age requirements when they are in place for safety reasons, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.)

 

I don't know the answer to your question but am kind of shocked at some of the replies. I certainly don't see anything wrong with your question. Hopefully it will work out for you.

[margeecruiser]

I think there is a difference between an Escape Room and a Puzzle Room. The Escape Room is a smaller venue and they probably want 14 and up. We did the Puzzle Room in the Star Lounge with lots of physical space. We had an 11 year old on our team with her mom. She was a great asset to our team.

 

Margee

 

 

Sent from my iPad using Forums

[erby2283]

We did The Escape Room on Anthem and there were only 5 of us that showed up. They let someone who had already done it do it again under the pretense that he would not repeat any of the clues he had worked on the first time, and also a 10 or 11 year old. He was awesome. He was great with helping with clues. So I think it depends on who’s running the room and whether your companions in the room are bothered by it.

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Forums

[tanya7291]

Thank you for asking the question! I wish that a few of the replies were more courteous. Most of them gave great reasons why. I was wondering the same thing. Well now that I see it with other people’s perspective it makes sense. 

[lovescats5]

We were in the Escape room on Anthem with my granddaughter who was 11.  She was a bigger help than some of the adults that had no clue what to do or how to even go about finding out any information.  They did not even question us about the fact she was only 11.  A good job for the younger child would be to write down the information as the adults came up with the clues.   I know there are age limits for a reason but if it is a family I think they would let the younger child in also. 

[reallyitsmema]

One solution would be to have specific Family Hours for the Escape Room and regular hours were they followed the age requirements.  We enjoyed the Escape Room on Anthem and likely would not have done it had we had young children in our group.

[not-enough-cruising]

On 5/7/2018 at 10:20 AM, griffy116 said:

Just wondering if the reason is that it is comprised of a group of 12 other adults in the group ended up with a few 11,12,13 year olds. They might feel that affected their total experience and complained. My sister and nephew used to go on cruises with us and she always carried on about how it was "unfair" that her 11 year old son wasn't allowed to participate in everything, regardless of his age. She would purchase a fruity alcoholic drink for him (putting us at risk of getting thrown off the cruise), took him to The Quest (which is adults only)

This past week on Freedom there were several teens escorted out of Studio B before The Quest commenced, much to the protesting of the parents and to the applause of the remainder of the audience. 

[not-enough-cruising]

On 5/7/2018 at 10:20 AM, griffy116 said:

 

Edited July 28, 2019 by not-enough-cruising

[spookwife]

There were lots of things I wanted to do as a kid that I couldn’t as I wasn’t old enough.  I survived.