<p>Here’s the situation…D and her female friends want to do Sr Week, but do not want to go with the general population of her HS (their destination: Myrtle Beach) Any suggestions of places that will rent to 18 year olds? We are in Southeastern PA. Anything I mention gets turned down immediately. Ahhh, there is nothing like a teen-ager spreading their wings to make a parent feel like an idiot :)</p>
<p>Is she wanting Myrtle Beach, or is that just where the rest of the kids are going, and she wants a different place?</p>
<p>She wants to avoid Myrtle Beach</p>
<p>Well, I said no to this bc son and his friends wanted to drive, but they wanted to go somewhere in Canada(we never even got to the specifics of where in Canada). They never went, bc none of them had the money to go anyway.
Some kids from their class went to Disney together. I find that a lot nicer and safer than Myrtle Beach, but boring if they have been there a few times. I know a few flew to an island where someone’s family owned a home.</p>
<p>Well, I live in one of the spring break meccas. </p>
<p>They could try Disney, as northeastmom said, or Universal is really fun if they haven’t been there. The good thing is, they can fly into Orlando and don’t have to rent a car- just shuttle to and from the resort (if they stay in a Disney/Universal hotel). </p>
<p>Cocoa Beach is nice for college age students. IMO, it’s a little nicer than Daytona and probably less expensive than Lauderdale. Also, if they have a car it’s within an hour of Disney or Universal if they want to take a day trip. </p>
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<p>I thought Disney/Universal was a great idea. I’ll see what D thinks. I like the fact that they would not have to worry about any tranportation on their own…it can all be arranged and then no vehicle is really needed. Any other ideas?</p>
<p>The Carousal in Ocean City, Md will rent to 18 year olds but I seriously doubt you would want her to stay there. The place is very nice but almost the entire hotel is rented to teens during Senior Week. They kick them out very quickly. Our daughter went to pick up a friend staying there and she was amazed at all the drunken people.</p>
<p>Why in the world would you send a bunch of under age kids alone to a wild beach week? Is there any chance of a good outcome? Your D will come home with the 'Best tatoo of the Week"? I’ve watched as friends justified these trips and then listened years later when the kids revealeld what really went on.
If you want a great vacation and a safe place for her and her friends to hang out - rent a house and go be there too.</p>
<p>I hate those Sr trips and Sr weeks, it is asking for disastor…who rents to these kids? </p>
<p>When my Ds class, well lots of them do hawaii, well D wanted nothing to do with it, I flew her to visit friends and she and friends did Disney Land and had a blast</p>
<p>The worst thing that can happen at Disney/Universal is they’ll end up with twistie braids and a wax casting of their hand. </p>
<p>Here’s a great idea… how about a cruise? It’s safe, you are confined, it’s pretty controlled, there are lots of activities.</p>
<p>You just need to be careful about the wilder spring break places (like Daytona). You know if your kids are just looking for a watering hole. </p>
<p>I don’t know how old your daughter is, though. Seems to me that it is kind of silly to be worrying about what your kid is going to do if let loose for 6 days at the end of the school year, when she’s going to be let loose for good in August. So don’t worry about a teen going off to, say, NYC in August… but God forbid, don’t let her go to Florida in June!</p>
<p>Am I wrong, or is this something that’s going on at the end of the school year, or right now? Maybe my assumptions are off…</p>
<p>My daughter and her friends went on a cruise. You need chaperones, one person over 25 per “cabin” (So if you have 4 teens, you need two chaperones, one for the chaperone double, one for the teen quad. Once on the ship they don’t seem to care who is in what cabin.) She was just a bit annoyed that we needed to sign a form before she left for every thing she wanted to do, as she was still 17. Her friends didn’t have that problem.</p>
<p>Do parents actually fund these kinds of trips? I’d be too afraid that someone would get hurt or killed. We were lucky, our D’s school sponsored a chaperoned trip to Disney and they had a great time. Good luck with figuring it out. I’d be inclined to refuse to pay, but maybe your D has her own cash.</p>
<p>We didn’t allow any of our kids to do the senior week thing and believe me it was hard as most of the kids here in NC do go to Mrytle, Daytona, Lauderdale or some other beach one of the designated “senior weeks”.</p>
<p>We did allow each of them to do something later in the summer with friends–I just don’t like the mob mentality of senior week. Someplace like Disney where it isn’t all highschoolers partying would be a good option.</p>
<p>One of the kids we did do a cruise with for senior trip. We had 6 parents and 24 kids–yes, you have to have one adult per cabin. And like earlier poster stated, you can arrange the sleeping arrangements however you like once on board.</p>
<p>It was a tiring week, but also a fun one. My biggest worry was that one of the kids would stray off on an island and miss the ship! That didn’t happen, but one boy got a tattoo on the street on one island. His response was, “don’t worry Mrs. M, I asked and they said the needles were clean”!!
I hated that he did that on my watch–why couldn’t he have waited until back in the states, it’s not like at 18 he couldn’t have done it here?</p>
<p>Is this a “which part of the country do you come from” kind of a question? Because I never heard of anyone in our HS doing something called “Senior Week”. Heaven knows, yes, they’ll be on their own in a few more months at college, but I surely wouldn’t have funded or had anything to do with a Spring Break kind of experience (if that’s what this is, it kinda sounds like it) whether in HS, college, or any time. Even if they paid, they’d’ve gotten a lot of eyerolling from me–but maybe it’s just cuz it’s not something we’re familiar with here (luckily).</p>
<p>I live in Southeastern PA, and many kids from my school go to Ocean City NJ or Ocean City Maryland.</p>
<p>To all the parents who are saying that they wouldn’t “fund” their child’s senior week, I’m pretty sure most kids rent houses for themselves (I’m paying for my senior week).</p>
<p>garland, I do think it is a regional thing–I had never heard of it until we moved to NC–maybe it’s being within such a reasonable drive time to beach? Or maybe I was just not aware of it before moving as my kids then were so young.</p>
<p>My friends in NJ and PA have the same thing, but friends in Ohio say that kids in their town don’t do this.</p>
<p>Senior week is a big thing in Maryland. Seems to be a big drunken brawl in Ocean City. We had it in Virginia when I graduated in 1972. My mother and one of our English teachers chaperoned. Things have changed but we still managed to do things that scare the heck out of me looking back. </p>
<p>I’m telling my daughter she is welcome to go to senior week or she can go visit an older cousin in LA who is an actress/model or I’ll take her and friend to see shows in NYC. I won’t have to worry about senior week.</p>
<p>in the Chicago area, I’ve not heard of any school doing senior week.</p>
<p>In my part of NC, the Myrtle Beach talk is already running rampant although the kids here just call it Spring Break, not Senior Week, it’s the same thing. S2 told me recently that there are already lists of who’s staying with who at Myrtle Beach. We did allow S1 to go when he was a senior but he paid for every penny of it himself and came back unscathed. If we decide to let S2 go, he will have to come up with the funding also. </p>
<p>The difference is S1 was practically a workaholic senior year, literally earned thousands of dollars and paid for everything he did while S2 drags off to his job like it’s his last day on earth,lol. So I’m thinking the odds of him saving all that money between now and April ( while also making enough spendable money to pay for gas and “entertainment” costs weekly) are pretty slim. I think we’re in the clear!</p>
<p>Here, Senior Week and Spring Break are two different things. Senior Week is either after graduation or between the end of classes and graduation. Spring Break among D’s friends tends to be family vacations.</p>