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[quote=Anonymous]I’m not planning to have “ifs”, I’m going to schedule her to work the evenings dh and I know we want to have time together, and give her the rest of the time off. If the kids are happy in the club they can stay there and she’ll have time off.

I will not expect her to eat with us but she will be welcome. I think we have assigned seats/times so if she wants to eat dinner In the dining room she will likely be seated with us anyway.

We’ve already been on one vacation with her - 2 weeks to visit family in California with a 3-day trip to Disneyland while there. I know our own family vacation style and know she is helpful and pitches in when needed (like taking a kid to the bathroom or grabbing extra food for the kids when she gets herself a snack with my credit card). We all get along well and don’t have unreasonable expectations. If we were to do a family excursion somewhere we would of course invite her along. At this point I’m not planning to do anything other than maybe a beach trip because the point of this vacation is the Disney cruise aspect. I’m ok with letting her do her own excursions but I think I will limit her to choosing cruise-run excursions so there is no worry about her missing the boat.

As for the room, I gave her to option of being in our room which is a 2-rom suite and she would have the living room to herself or sharing a cabin - also with 2 separate sleeping spaces- with my mother-in-law. She opted for the latter and I don’t think has any problem with it. The rules are that they need to have their own room. At our home - and our country home - she has her own room and private bath on a separate floor from our house. At my parents’ house where we just were she had her own room but shared a bath with my parents. She’s not had an issue with any of these arrangements. Also, I don’t know many people who go on a Caribbean cruise and spend a lot of time in their room. I expect she’ll be out by the pool or making friends with other young people on board. She’s very social but also mature so I don’t anticipate her being irresponsible with the freedom. She’s also only 20 so she won’t be allowed to have alcohol, though she doesn’t drink anyway. [/quote]

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