Can she stay at a hostel? Or on-campus guest housing?
Alternatively, at Hilton if you have the app you don’t even have to talk to anyone when you check in. Your phone opens the door.
Great ideas @itsgettingreal17 and @VickiSoCal ! I’ll see what I can do. I’m not sure where we’ll be visiting again yet. I’ve got to find S15 an apartment in Flagstaff and visit any schools that may be contenders with D17 over the same week of spring break. I’m afraid we won’t be able to take everyone everywhere. If she could travel alone if needed, that could solve some problems.
@socalmom007 I have heard chatter on other boards about age of students and flights. 17 can fly unaccompanied on all airlines I think. Some airlines have upped the age to 15 or 16, but some allow at 13 or 14. Hotels have to be 18.
D has flown several times unaccompanied since she was 16! Sounds like it it is just if booked through a secondary website? She hasn’t checked into and stayed at a hotel by herself yet though.
I would second @itsgettingreal17’s comment. My 17 year old D has been flying to events such as science conference, summer camps, and college visits by herself for a year now. Also, at one science conference, she and two other high school students stayed in the same hotel room to split cost but no adults traveled with them. I was really worried and double and triple checked everything with the hotel. The front desk kept assuring me that there is no issues and kind of made me felt like I was worrying a bit much.
Also, I didn’t know this until yesterday. If your under 18 child is traveling along, you can obtain pass to go through security and accompany him/her to the gate area. I didn’t know this all these times waving good-bye to my D at the security and watching her going through X-ray check point and hoping she collected all her belongings. 
@MA2012 It depends on the hotel. D is at a hotel right now (a young 17). It is affiliated with the college. She was at another on Thursday-Sat, again affiliated with the school. The managers understood and just made a note to her reservation that she had special permission to check in. D has a credit card and ID. So far, no hotel has said no.
@itsgettingreal17 - thanks for the hotel update. It hasn’t been an issue here yet, and S is now 18. Last fall it was potentially an issue on a trip to NYC with friends last fall, but I didn’t want him staying at a hotel w/o an adult anyway (he was able to stay with relatives, so got to go on the trip).
Airlines can issue a pass (which looks like a boarding pass with time expiration) for special situations like children or elderly parents, but lot of times they resist.
Just checking in to report I’m on my 10th hat. :)) After finishing 6 kitty hats, I’m knitting brain hats and earth/globe hats (bought a double knit pattern for the globe.) I’ve been traveling and gotten a lot of knitting done at the airport gates and in flight. It seems my destinations were poor choices. I suffered through the snow storm in Boston area. Now I’m visiting my mother. it’s been cold and raining. I can’t wait till I return to warm and sunny Colorado in a few days :))
I had to postpone this visit because of the emergency last month. DH is doing well so I decided to visit mom. Her health has improved as well. So everyone is well including DS’s who suffered long nasty cold.
In the mean time, we did see the hospital bill the insurance posted. We won’t pay much as it reached annual co-insurance max. The bill was in 6 figures. Can’t imagine going without a good med insurance.
Congratulations to everyone with good news <:-P and hugs to =(( those with set backs.
March 20th can’t come soon enough. [-(
They might charge you $150 for that pass.
@SincererLove I only book airline direct. Gone are the days of package pricing and single one way tickets on different airlines are far easier to do direct and far easier to change if needed.
JUST VENTING… My Ds guidance counselor told her today that she was “better than OSU and should not settle just because she got a full ride” . Are you kidding me ! OMgosh I almost lost it. I wanted to call and ask her if she was going to finance my Ds education. Why would anyone do this?
@Cubanmom3 that’s pretty bad. I’d be tempted to contact her and ask her to refrain from further “guidance” at this point. There’s really nothing left for the GC’s to do except mail in the final transcripts anyways.
@RightCoaster this school really pushes kids to apply to “elite” schools and I think the GC is trying to steer my D toward a better ranked school.The comment really upset my D because she worked so hard and was very proud of her Distinction scholarship. This is my last child at this school so I don’t want to go all Rambo Mom on the GC but I am fuming
Is the GC’s last name Harbaugh?
That is not ok!!! Maybe your daughter worked her ass off to get a full ride, not everyone wants to go to an elite college full pay!
@Cubanmom3 lol at Rambo Mom, ha.
My son received the opposite advice, when his guidance counselor suggested he apply to a bunch of schools where his ACT score was almost 8-10 points higher than average at a few of them. I don’t know what the lady was thinking, and I’m glad we didn’t take any of her advice. She’s been helpful, but maybe she’s out of touch or something. Maybe she doesn’t want any of her kids to get rejected, who knows.
We’ve had several friends tell us that they wish they had made their kids apply to more selective schools instead of some of the more easier schools to get in.
I may be totally out of touch but I have read so many articles on the fact that elite doesn’t equal success that I have come to the conclusion that a really good student has the opportunity to be successful no matter what college they attend. I am hard pressed to turn free…
I had my daughter’s counselor tell her she’d never get in to some of the schools she’s already been accepted at, so there’s that… L-)
@cubanmom3, GRRRRRRR. I understand and I am with you! My D15 chose her school based on our finances, her scholarship offers, and fit, and is considering the “elite” schools for grad school. S17 is going for the money too. He has good scholarship offers and he worked HARD to get these offers like @socalmom007 said. I think that these scholarships are something for the school to brag about! I am grateful that S’s school tells the kids fit is more important than (perceived) prestige.