Do you take family vacations and not bring all your kids?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids go to a 3.5 week sleepaway camp when they are old enough. That is enough time away from their friends / house in the summer and they don’t love to otherwise travel too too much in the summer.

Last summer my then 7 year old wasn’t old enough for camp and we went on a Royal carribbean cruise while the older two were at camp. It was a bit of a unique circumstance because I had a pandemic cruise credit that was going to expire and that was really the only time we could use it.

The older two knew about the trip and didn’t mind that we did it while they were at camp. They wouldn’t have rather us taken them away for another summer week.

I would actually be curious to know if you were anxious cruising while your other kids were at camp. Was it international? What would have happened if you needed to get to your kids if there was an emergency? For some reason cruises make me nervous as they are more off-grid, less flexible and harder to leave mid cruise if needed

We went to the Bahamas on the cruise - it was M-F with one day at sea, one day in Nassau, and 1 day in Coco Cay. I didn’t really worry too much about it but we did bring passports which weren’t required - in case we had to fly home out of Nassau while we docked there or something. We had multiple relatives who knew they were on call if we needed a camp pick up something. I paid for cruise internet / phone service because I wanted to know if someone needed to reach us, that they could.

Fwiw - it was my 8th grader’s 5th summer and my 5th grader’s 2nd summer at the camp.