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How to Adjust When You Travel with Teenagers

By: Zeta James

My teens are all grown up and one of the nicest experiences we shared as a family has been to go on cruise vacations. Here are a few tips to ensure that you and your teens can enjoy that cruise vacation.

1. Any ship will do!.
The bigger ships will have more teens and more facilities and programs specifically for them. This is not as important since teens will usually find each other on their own to have fun, irrespective of whether there are programs available on the cruise. These programs are more important if you have younger kids in tow since the structure it provides means less worries on keeping the small ones entertained.

2. Teens will gripe initially about the trip but usually end up enjoying it.
I am sure you have seen this in your teens, not just when you are planning a cruise but just about anything else. It's pretty much standard to hear that they would rather be left behind at home to be with their friends .. but from my experience, at the end of each cruise, my teens are always glad they came with mom and dad.

3. You don't have to carry their luggage anymore! (just teasing)
Some truth to it though ... remember those days when you have to push them on strollers when you go on vacations? With teens, you can now focus on more exotic locations which you could not go to before.

4. Teens need breathing room, space-wise.
If you have younger kids, a triple cabin or a quad cabin will work since it's a bit cozier than the larger rooms. Teens will need more space, so depending on your budget, you have several options -- mini-suites or family suites which can hold five or more people, adjoining cabins with a private connecting door between them (similar set-up you can find in hotels), two adjoining cabins with no privacy door, or cabins facing each other with one across the hall and one with a balcony and a nice ocean view!

Options will vary for each cruise that you take so it's recommended that you reach out to a cruise counselor before you even start booking. Mini-suites are usually larger than the largest regular room and you will have curtains to separate the sleeping areas. A full suite will have more space than two separate regular rooms so verify if the pricing is lower if you were to go with the regulars.

If you will be charged the same for a full suite versus two regular rooms, then you need to evaluate which one is better in terms of comfort and privacy. The suite might be able to accommodate your entire family but separate rooms will provide more privacy to your teens. If you go with the separate rooms approach, you will not be able to track your teens activity as much. To address this, you can always book adjoining rooms so you can at least hear your teens activities next door.

The adjoining cabins set-up are usually in high demand especially in the summer and at spring break, so try to book 6 months or so in advance.

5. In addition to their need for space, teens need their freedom too.
While your main agenda is to just enjoy the vacation with the family, your teens might just want to be on his own as much as possible!

This is where cruise vacations works great -- you can be together as a family unit while doing those on-shore excursions away from the ship, but once you come on-board, let your teens set their own activities with other teens. All you need to do is implement a simple curfew and check up on them a few times.

If you follow these basic guidelines, you are set in terms of enjoying that cruise with your teens. Time goes by too fast for all of us and these teens will be out of the house on their own before you know it, so enjoy the time you have with them as much as you can!

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