Spring Break Ideas for College Sophomores with Limited Budget - Florida/Bahamas
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Trying to see if anyone has any Spring Break ideas for 8 Sophomore College Girls ages 18-19. Focusing on Florida and the Bahamas. Mexico and DR are not options. They would like to spend between $600-$800 each including RT flight to/from Boston for 5 nights sometime between March 1-8. If it's a hotel, they are planning to do 2 Queens and 4 girls per room to cut down on cost.
They are not looking for a wild Spring Break scene. They want to hang out at the beach/pool, do some shopping and some fun touristy stuff. Any suggestions that might fit their criteria in terms of hotel/location? Any websites to check for cheap deals? They've been researching options like crazy, but not having much luck, so I thought I would try here to see if someone had any ideas. Thank you and Happy New Year! |
Anonymous
| Including flights, that time of year? Seems hard to do outside of a group package. Talk to a travel agent about package trips. |
Anonymous
| I would suggest they look at flights to FL from Boston and just pick the cheapest option... Tampa, Ft Lauderdale, Miami, etc. They can easily find a hotel for $300 per night per room (so $375 per person for 5 nights). It won't be right on the beach, but they should rent bikes and embrace the area. |
Anonymous
+1. Lots of cheap flights from BOS to Florida flying out 3 Mar and back 8 Mar. |
Anonymous
The oldest is 19. The only hotels that will be available are the kind of spring break hotels they want to avoid. |
Anonymous
| Many schools have a campus rep that offer cheap packages to Mexico, etc. Not sure you can cobble something together cheaper. I just booked RT flights from Boston to PBI this week and they were $200 RT so that eats up 25% of the budget already. Hotels will be expensive as well. Would they consider Montreal or Quebec City if they have cars? NYC? |
Anonymous
| Boston to FLL is pretty cheap 3/3 - 3/8 and I've stayed at the deerfield beach embassy suites when I was young. It was fine. I think they have free breakfast and snacks in the evening. |
Anonymous
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/deefles-embassy-suites-deerfield-beach-resort-and-spa/gallery/ |
Anonymous
Have you checked their prices for March? It would be about $650 per person for the five nights. Sadly, out of their budget. |
Anonymous
Nope: Minimum age to register 21 https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/deefles-embassy-suites-deerfield-beach-resort-and-spa/hotel-info/ |
Anonymous
There are lots of clean, reasonable hotel choices available down there that accommodate 18-19 year olds. Just not fancy beachfront ones. |
Anonymous
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It's kind of out of the box, but, what about Key West? It is definitely beachy, lots to do, and because it's sort remote, it's not a major college "spring breeeeeeaaakkk MTV bacchanalia" destination.
Fly into Miami (120 dollars roundtrip) and take Greyhound to Key West (34 dollars, takes 4.5 hours). [honestly not sure about greyhound in FL...] (You can fly direct to Key West but it will eat up all your budget, will be like 400 dollars each). Find a hotel with a pool because Key West doesn't really have nice beaches (although you could probably uber to Bahía Honda), maybe you can do a snorkel excursion, tour Hemingway's House, just go full Golden Girls vacation. Lots of good food, (Cuban) coffee, boutique shopping, and a relaxed island atmosphere while being inside the US. Another option is Saint Augustine SOOOOO picturesque, great beaches, easy to get to from Jacksonsville. |
Anonymous
| Disney hotels allow 18 year olds to check in. You don’t have to go to the parks. You can use the busses to go to Disney Springs for shopping and eating. Cheap flights to MCO. |
Anonymous
| How about Miami and find a brand like Holiday Inn, Hampton Inn etc? |