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After worrying about this all weekend long - I don't know why but I just couldn't get it off my mind - I did call Carnival last nightI \ 1-800 #. She was able to verify my reservation and the rooms of the other 4 people with their parents (or chaperones) but then she said that there were some that were cross referenced with my name that there was a problem with - she said that some of them should have never been booked - there were two boys in a room together (18 year olds) that there was one boy booked by himself (in a single room) and two girls (18 year olds). She said that a memo was being sent to the vacation planner that I use and he was going to have to call each person and get this straight. She said luckily we are in the period where changes can still be made. She said we would have saved money by booking 4 in a room. But that you had to have a parent with you if you were under 21 and you were in a room without someone over 25 in the room. It was all confusing - and I'm sure some of the parents will be mad at me - but they would have been alot madder if they would have lost their money and their child was left at the pier. This was my 1st & last time ever trying to help plan anything.Someone told me after this that they took their daughter and her 3 best friends on a cruise for her 16th birthday and that the girls stayed quad to a room straight across from her and she was never questioned at all.Not once was I questioned re: who the girls were, where were their parents, no one asked me for a notarized letter and no one said a word that their cabin and mine were not the same. So, I personally think it can be done. Please check again.And YES, it was a Carnival ship and YES, I would do it all over again....the girls were great!!But I'm glad that I finally called Carnival - and yes my planner may be mad - of course Carnival "assured" me that he wouldn't and they "assured" me that they aren't paid by commission like regular agents - the more they book the more they make. Anyway they said that he was going to have to personally contact each family that had a child without a parent and see what could be done. My suggestion to my daughter was to find more parents or to have the other kids find somewhere else to go. I still can't quite figure out how other groups of teenagers go - and I know they do - because my nephew went on his senior trip....but anyway Carnival assured me that they don't break these rules for anyone.
After worrying about this all weekend long - I don't know why but I just couldn't get it off my mind - I did call Carnival last nightI \ 1-800 #. She was able to verify my reservation and the rooms of the other 4 people with their parents (or chaperones) but then she said that there were some that were cross referenced with my name that there was a problem with - she said that some of them should have never been booked - there were two boys in a room together (18 year olds) that there was one boy booked by himself (in a single room) and two girls (18 year olds). She said that a memo was being sent to the vacation planner that I use and he was going to have to call each person and get this straight. She said luckily we are in the period where changes can still be made. She said we would have saved money by booking 4 in a room. But that you had to have a parent with you if you were under 21 and you were in a room without someone over 25 in the room. It was all confusing - and I'm sure some of the parents will be mad at me - but they would have been alot madder if they would have lost their money and their child was left at the pier. This was my 1st & last time ever trying to help plan anything.
Someone told me after this that they took their daughter and her 3 best friends on a cruise for her 16th birthday and that the girls stayed quad to a room straight across from her and she was never questioned at all.Not once was I questioned re: who the girls were, where were their parents, no one asked me for a notarized letter and no one said a word that their cabin and mine were not the same. So, I personally think it can be done. Please check again.
And YES, it was a Carnival ship and YES, I would do it all over again....the girls were great!!
But I'm glad that I finally called Carnival - and yes my planner may be mad - of course Carnival "assured" me that he wouldn't and they "assured" me that they aren't paid by commission like regular agents - the more they book the more they make. Anyway they said that he was going to have to personally contact each family that had a child without a parent and see what could be done. My suggestion to my daughter was to find more parents or to have the other kids find somewhere else to go. I still can't quite figure out how other groups of teenagers go - and I know they do - because my nephew went on his senior trip....but anyway Carnival assured me that they don't break these rules for anyone.
