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Spring Break Worries -- help!
- Thread starter annenp
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If safety is your main goal, you sure shouldn't be sending him down to Cancun for spring break! It's not just Cancun (or Mexico) that is the problem. It's the super-charged drinking party atmosphere and euphoric sense of invincibility that gets spring breakers into trouble. But, that's exactly what makes it so irresistible! I guess you are the best judge on whether your son and his friend are mature enough to deal with issues that may come up while they are on their own for a week in a foreign country. (See current State Dept notice below.) I personally think it's a dumb rite of passage.
As spring break approaches, many students are preparing for a trip abroad. The State Department’s website for students traveling overseas provides useful safety and travel information for parents and students alike: studentsabroad.state.gov.
The majority of students will have safe and enjoyable adventures. However, even on the best-planned trips, things can go wrong. Each year more than 2,500 U.S. citizens are arrested abroad, nearly half of them on narcotics charges, including possession of very small amounts of illegal substances. U.S. citizens have been badly injured or killed in accidents, falls, and other mishaps. Many of these incidents have been linked to alcohol and drug use. Other spring break vacationers have been sexually assaulted or robbed because they found themselves in unfamiliar locales, incapable of protecting themselves because of drug or alcohol use, or because they were victims of a “date rape” drug.
The most common cause of death of U.S. citizens overseas, other than natural causes, is by motor vehicle accident. Students traveling abroad should be aware that standards of safety overseas are different from those in the United States.
The majority of students will have safe and enjoyable adventures. However, even on the best-planned trips, things can go wrong. Each year more than 2,500 U.S. citizens are arrested abroad, nearly half of them on narcotics charges, including possession of very small amounts of illegal substances. U.S. citizens have been badly injured or killed in accidents, falls, and other mishaps. Many of these incidents have been linked to alcohol and drug use. Other spring break vacationers have been sexually assaulted or robbed because they found themselves in unfamiliar locales, incapable of protecting themselves because of drug or alcohol use, or because they were victims of a “date rape” drug.
The most common cause of death of U.S. citizens overseas, other than natural causes, is by motor vehicle accident. Students traveling abroad should be aware that standards of safety overseas are different from those in the United States.
PS - Cabo is a terrible, horrible idea for Spring Break!!! We go there and I'm tired of avoiding piles of vomit on the sidewalks and bathroom floors where spring breakers couldn't find the toilet.
nazclk
TUG Member
Cabo for Spring Break
Rene Rene, you've never been to Billygans on Medano Beach or the Office next door during spring break, no wet t-shirt contests, no Tequila drinking championships, oh well. :hysterical: I have been going to Cabo for 10 years now, haven't been lucky enough to hit spring break yet, but maybe this year as we are going in March. I went to Cancun last May, and you can keep it. I will go back and spend a week on Isla Mujures however.
Rene Rene, you've never been to Billygans on Medano Beach or the Office next door during spring break, no wet t-shirt contests, no Tequila drinking championships, oh well. :hysterical: I have been going to Cabo for 10 years now, haven't been lucky enough to hit spring break yet, but maybe this year as we are going in March. I went to Cancun last May, and you can keep it. I will go back and spend a week on Isla Mujures however.
I have an 18 and a 20 year old. We have been going to Cancun for Spring Break TOGETHER since they were 6 & 8. When my son turned 18, we allowed him and his friend to go to one of the clubs while we were there. We set down plenty of rules, they had earned our trust, and we had explicit instructions for time/behavior etc.
BIG MISTAKE. It turned, as expected, into a big drunk fest. AND, we had to hire a taxi to drive us to every club in the hotel zone trying to find them at 3 in the morning because they tired of the club they were at and started club-hopping.
I'm sorry - but I learned my lesson and I would absolutely positively NOT let my kids go to Cancun unchaperoned. Even if they are old enough to join the army. At least in the army they have been to boot camp and MAYBE have had some sense of their own mortality drilled into them.
BIG MISTAKE. It turned, as expected, into a big drunk fest. AND, we had to hire a taxi to drive us to every club in the hotel zone trying to find them at 3 in the morning because they tired of the club they were at and started club-hopping.
I'm sorry - but I learned my lesson and I would absolutely positively NOT let my kids go to Cancun unchaperoned. Even if they are old enough to join the army. At least in the army they have been to boot camp and MAYBE have had some sense of their own mortality drilled into them.
Nazclk, you must be thinking I'm Tig from the TA forum?
You'll find Cabo a little different at Spring Break than at other times of the year. Every March, we're at Solmar and Playa Grande, so it's nice we can escape the constant partying on Medano Beach. We do go into town and wander over to Medano, though. Spring Break in Cabo has gotten bigger over the years (it used to be too expensive - no cheap AI resorts). They're not bad kids, just loaded with testosterone, estrogen, and alcohol. I really don't want to see Cabo develop into another Cancun! BTW, I think we'll be in Cabo at the same time - I'm always just missing the TA gang down there!
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