Solarium-adults only?

[rhsmd]

OK, I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but here goes..... Since I have paid full adult price for my 2 kids (14 and 16) in their own cabin, why shouldn't they get to use the adult pool? (For those of you who are ultra picky and say they shouldn't have their own cabin let's say, for the sake of argument, that one of them is in a cabin with me and one in a cabin with my husband - yes we booked 2 cabins and all at full adult rate). I'm not talking about kids who'll be messing about and causing a commotion, but will want to read a book, listen to music and then occasionally take a dip in the pool. Why, having paid the same as any adult, should they be excluded?

 

a child is a achild is a child.

i pay full price, so i can come to dinner in my bathing suit right?

i don't weave on the highway and have taken a high performance driving class, so i can drive > 100mph right?

[teajak]

OK, I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but here goes..... Since I have paid full adult price for my 2 kids (14 and 16) in their own cabin, why shouldn't they get to use the adult pool? (For those of you who are ultra picky and say they shouldn't have their own cabin let's say, for the sake of argument, that one of them is in a cabin with me and one in a cabin with my husband - yes we booked 2 cabins and all at full adult rate). I'm not talking about kids who'll be messing about and causing a commotion, but will want to read a book, listen to music and then occasionally take a dip in the pool. Why, having paid the same as any adult, should they be excluded?

Oh please, give us this one place on the ship without teens. They have the use of the big pool, the hot tubs and other places, can't adults have one place to escape to? Just because you paid full price for them doesn't make them adults. Do you also want them to be able to gamble and buy drinks brcause you paid full price?

[Grumm]

Listen Folks,

 

The full-price for kids argument is purile enough to have been written by a 14 year old. Whilst I have no objection to kids having a great time on their holiday (vacation), RCI have laid down the rules fair and square. If you don't like them, simply don't book a cruise with this particular company.

 

When I was a kid I respected the fact that there were things excluded to me. My parents didn't even have to explain. Now we have parents claiming rights (to which they are NOT entitled) for their kids. What is WRONG with some people???:mad: Do you have to have kids to enjoy a cruise? I sincerely hope not!!

 

Alan

[isujim]

The closed solarium on Radiance/Vision Class ships are exactly the reason we prefer them over the Voyager Class solarium. If we want to sunbathe we'll just go lay out on the pool deck.

 

 

tony I agree with you 100%...........

[VaHam]

Several years ago, while trying to relax in the "ADULTS ONLY" hot tub we had the problem with youngsters in there with us. To the point that they were walking on top of us. I finally got tired of all their splashing and decided to spalsh back. I continuted to splash them until they went crying to granddaddy who came over to me to say something. Before he spoke I informed him about the pool rules and he needed to remove the kids. Since then I find great pleasure in chasing the little brats away when needed. If I choose to take a cruise with out my kids, I am not going to babysit yours.

[Nliedel]

I do want to note that many passengers have reported kids in there on inclement days. There are limited times it is allowed.

 

I've never had a problem with kids in the Solarium. I have seen them asked to leave by the pool attendants, when they wander in and start to hang.

 

There are adult venues on the ship and children's venues. I am not allowed in the teen club, they are not allowed in the adults only area. It's one of those policies that should be enforced.

[sea-cruise]

Regarding my previous post, I forgot to add that DH & I took our grandsons on a cruise a couple of years ago aboard Carnival's Miracle.

I booked two balcony cabins. The boys were 16 and 19 at the time, both over 6 ft tall and looking older than their ages.

The younger one came back to me, and was upset that his brother could enter the gym but he couldn't.

I told him that rules are rules! He survived. :)

[ChristieNJ]

Several years ago, while trying to relax in the "ADULTS ONLY" hot tub we had the problem with youngsters in there with us. To the point that they were walking on top of us. I finally got tired of all their splashing and decided to spalsh back. I continuted to splash them until they went crying to granddaddy who came over to me to say something. Before he spoke I informed him about the pool rules and he needed to remove the kids. Since then I find great pleasure in chasing the little brats away when needed. If I choose to take a cruise with out my kids, I am not going to babysit yours.

 

I like your style! :D:D:D

:cool:

[Nliedel]

Regarding my previous post, I forgot to add that DH & I took our grandsons on a cruise a couple of years ago aboard Carnival's Miracle.

I booked two balcony cabins. The boys were 16 and 19 at the time, both over 6 ft tall and looking older than their ages.

The younger one came back to me, and was upset that his brother could enter the gym but he couldn't.

I told him that rules are rules! He survived. :)

 

I'm saving this post for my ten year old who thinks the world owes him adult status. He will be relieved to know he will survive childhood. If I don't cook and eat him, first. :p

[sea-cruise]

I'm saving this post for my ten year old who thinks the world owes him adult status. He will be relieved to know he will survive childhood. If I don't cook and eat him, first. :p

LOL !!:D :D

[raina*faith]

Kids, I ran into this on my cruise with my own "rugrats"! Aged 14 and 15. They thought they should go in the adults hot tub and I sweetly said "the other hot tubs.....full with "jumping kids" is for you." And I took my mango tango and enjoyed my 10 min. of bliss. :D

[delldell]

I must say the underlying "tone" in some of these posts is pretty sad. Granted they are typed words and not spoken so they are left to interpertation. But the venom I sense from some posts is scary. Let me be clear, I have 3 young kids and I just got off EOS and they never stepped a toe into an adults only area. Its the rules, I agree with the rules and they will abide by it, no exceptions. For those who despise the presence of children so much, why cruise a line that promotes families? And when you see a kid in a pool where they don't belong and they are accompanied by an adult, it is the ADULT who is at fault. Be a tough guy and splash the adult next time rather than making a kid cry! If an ADULT lets a kid where they don't belong and the kid doen't know any better, the ADULT is the rude one. How that makes the kid a brat is somethng I don't understand?

[Grumm]

I must say the underlying "tone" in some of these posts is pretty sad. Granted they are typed words and not spoken so they are left to interpertation. But the venom I sense from some posts is scary. Let me be clear, I have 3 young kids and I just got off EOS and they never stepped a toe into an adults only area. Its the rules, I agree with the rules and they will abide by it, no exceptions. For those who despise the presence of children so much, why cruise a line that promotes families? And when you see a kid in a pool where they don't belong and they are accompanied by an adult, it is the ADULT who is at fault. Be a tough guy and splash the adult next time rather than making a kid cry! If an ADULT lets a kid where they don't belong and the kid doen't know any better, the ADULT is the rude one. How that makes the kid a brat is somethng I don't understand?

 

I think you make a valid point about the written word versus a spoken conversation. Let me assure you that the vast majority of people on these boards are caring and helpful. What may appear on the screen as scathing isn't necessarily what was meant...we can only type with our fingers and not with our tongue-filled cheeks. Don't be offended, just go with the flow:)

 

Alan

[ChristieNJ]

I'm saving this post for my ten year old who thinks the world owes him adult status. He will be relieved to know he will survive childhood. If I don't cook and eat him, first. :p

 

I think I like YOUR style, too, Nancy! :D:D:D:p

[Bobal]

I must say the underlying "tone" in some of these posts is pretty sad. Granted they are typed words and not spoken so they are left to interpertation. But the venom I sense from some posts is scary. Let me be clear, I have 3 young kids and I just got off EOS and they never stepped a toe into an adults only area. Its the rules, I agree with the rules and they will abide by it, no exceptions. For those who despise the presence of children so much, why cruise a line that promotes families? And when you see a kid in a pool where they don't belong and they are accompanied by an adult, it is the ADULT who is at fault. Be a tough guy and splash the adult next time rather than making a kid cry! If an ADULT lets a kid where they don't belong and the kid doen't know any better, the ADULT is the rude one. How that makes the kid a brat is somethng I don't understand?

 

Thanks for a reasoned response delldell. As the person who posted the question I expected some comments but find it quite sad to come across such spite. I don't agree that what appears on the screen isn't always as scathing as it seems, some of the foregoing comments are clearly meant to be scathing. And Alan - I think the word you were looking for is puerile ;)

[VaHam]

"I must say the underlying "tone" in some of these posts is pretty sad."

The sad part is that some adult just let their kids run wild without regards to what is happening around them.

"Granted they are typed words and not spoken so they are left to interpertation. But the venom I sense from some posts is scary."

You know absolutly nothing about me but yet you call me venomous. That is what is scary

"Let me be clear, I have 3 young kids and I just got off EOS and they never stepped a toe into an adults only area. Its the rules, I agree with the rules and they will abide by it, no exceptions. For those who despise the presence of children so much, why cruise a line that promotes families?"

That is exactly why I do not cruise on Disney.

"And when you see a kid in a pool where they don't belong and they are accompanied by an adult, it is the ADULT who is at fault."

You are exactally right, it is the ADULTS who are at fault.

"Be a tough guy and splash the adult next time rather than making a kid cry!"

Had the granddaddy been in the hot tub, I would have said something to him but it happens he was sitting 3 rows away sunning.

"If an ADULT lets a kid where they don't belong and the kid doen't know any better, the ADULT is the rude one. How that makes the kid a brat is somethng I don't understand?"

You say that your kids never broke the rules but I can tell by your response that if your Angels were in the adult area, it would be fine with you. As for what makes a kid a BRAT, if they are told how to behave and have to be constantly told then what is there to understand. It not that hard.

[delldell]

It is sad how SOME parents disregard rules. Couldn't agree more. Even sadder is the fact that their impressionable children will grow up to disregard rules. Children are born innocent and are molded by how they see their parents behave.

 

I did not call you venemous. I said I SENSE venom from SOME of the posts. I further clarified, that typed words are left to interpertation. However, if the shoe fits...

 

You are 100% wrong about your sarcasm about "my angels". My kids are typical kids, no better or worse than any others. If they were in an adults only pool, they would unintentionally splash and annoy those who want peace and quiet. That's how kids play in a pool. Hence the reason they are not allowed or going there. Please point out where I remotly inferred I would allow my kids in an adults only area? Absolutly NOT. Did I not make it clear I kept them OUT of those areas? I believe you copmpletly missed my point so I will restate it another way...when a young kid is an adults only area and they have an adult with them, its the ADULT who is at fault. The kid doesn't know better.

 

Your obvious lack of knowledge about children makes this conversation with you pointless. Either that or you lack reading comprehension skills. Either way, I wish you happiness as I sense you don't have much of it.

[teajak]

I must say the underlying "tone" in some of these posts is pretty sad. Granted they are typed words and not spoken so they are left to interpertation. But the venom I sense from some posts is scary. Let me be clear, I have 3 young kids and I just got off EOS and they never stepped a toe into an adults only area. Its the rules, I agree with the rules and they will abide by it, no exceptions. For those who despise the presence of children so much, why cruise a line that promotes families? And when you see a kid in a pool where they don't belong and they are accompanied by an adult, it is the ADULT who is at fault. Be a tough guy and splash the adult next time rather than making a kid cry! If an ADULT lets a kid where they don't belong and the kid doen't know any better, the ADULT is the rude one. How that makes the kid a brat is somethng I don't understand?

Please do not lump all of us that want an adult pool kept adult with the the guy that splashed the kid. Sinking to the childs level is ridiculous and accomplishes nothing.

[crusinmama06]

OK, I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but here goes..... Since I have paid full adult price for my 2 kids (14 and 16) in their own cabin, why shouldn't they get to use the adult pool? (For those of you who are ultra picky and say they shouldn't have their own cabin let's say, for the sake of argument, that one of them is in a cabin with me and one in a cabin with my husband - yes we booked 2 cabins and all at full adult rate). I'm not talking about kids who'll be messing about and causing a commotion, but will want to read a book, listen to music and then occasionally take a dip in the pool. Why, having paid the same as any adult, should they be excluded?

 

 

I hope you honestly don't believe this. It's a simple fact that there are ADULT areas and there are KID areas. It's like asking if your children can be served alcohol or use the casino, buy cigarettes just because YOU paid for the cruise.

 

I have TWO children. We do suites so I am betting that we paid more overall than you did. And I can NEVER make the argument that MY children have some entitlement to the adult areas. :rolleyes:

 

ADULT AREA...SEE NO KIDS....

 

 

KID'S AREA....see look there are KIDS

 

 

Funny how that all works

[Marley-Bop]

ADULT AREA...SEE NO KIDS....

 

 

 

BLISS

 

Chubbas XX

[crusinmama06]

ADULT AREA...SEE NO KIDS....

BLISS

 

Chubbas XX

 

You better believe it! And to Bobal...this is REALLY not a slam against children. I LOVE AND ADORE my kids. I am with them 24/7 working out of a home office. I go NO WHERE without them. They are the very center of my universe. :D And with all of this love and adoration, I can see that they need to be in the children's areas.

 

And of course, when they are in the children's area...I am in the children's area. :)

 

Then when I get that one hour of adult time in the solarium area while my kids go off to Adventure Ocean (cause it takes wild horses to keep them out of there)...then I want to be WITH adults.

 

One hour...that's all I am asking for....lol. :p

[sea-cruise]

MICHELE!! I told you BEFORE that you had me coveting and craving that Solarium! Now you had to go and show me more?? Do you know how much $$$ you are going to cost me?

I already have another Explorer booked and now I might have to go and book the Freedom or the Liberty too!!

Ahhh....I'm like you...I love the kids and grandkids, even enough to take them on these cruises, but give me a TINY bit of space to be peaceful & old.:)

[Nliedel]

The solarium on the Liberty is STUNNING! Just heavenly.

 

I am with my kids a lot too, Michelle. I 100% get what you're saying. That's why a cruise is so wonderful. We get time together and time apart, every day.

[crusinmama06]

Sorry Sea Cruise I will try to use my solarium pictures sparingly...lol.

 

And Nliedel - yep just a few minutes alone is all I need. I knew you would understand. :D

[Bobal]

Cruisinmama

 

I didn't realise this would also turn into a 'I paid more than you did' thread too :confused: . Sorry to disappoint you, but we also do suites too - yes that's right 2 of them, for us and our kids. Not sure how relevant, or logical, your arguments are tho' - how asking why my kids can't sit by a pool is the same as asking for alcohol for them? - but nice pics anyway :rolleyes: Anyway, hope you enjoy your next cruise - you clearly need to alleviate the stress somehow. :)