This topic rears its head now and then, and the comments are always all over the place, according to one's experiences, just like food and other subjective topics. That ill-fated plan (for one of the weeks at least) on the Diamond a few years ago where kids went free (it may have even been all inclusive, but no in-room bottles) was a disaster, and you noticed RSSC has not revived it. All kinds of problems with teenagers choking the room service staff's ability to keep up, people ordering drinks from room service. I'm glad I wasn't on that one. I have always enjoyed seeing children on my cruises, because they were all well-behaved. If I were on a cruise when mine were younger, a scream from a baby in CR would mean an embarrassing exit with the child.

I am the mother of four (all but the 30 year old are in their twenties). If they had to "earn" the privilege of traveling me, I would be solo all the time. They simply cannot afford what RSSC charges, and I do not wish to go with the lines that they could pay for. I feel I have "earned" the right to take them where I please, so long as they behave well, even if I pay for it. I am a SKI person (spending kid's inheritence) and enjoy every minute when we can have the family together, and all of them love family vacations, luckily. Of course, I am not married, and my friends just don't "get" cruising (working on that with MUSH)

Anthony, you will know when your boys are ready for RSSC. Until then, you know the options you have for travel to neat places....Disney does a great job according to one of the associates in my office (but he'll say, of course it is not like that line you take!), and then there are the crewed private charters in the Caribbean, which for two families are much less than RSSC with much the same amenities, except the cabins, of course, but no charge for excursions!

I'm happy to say that even when I've encountered rude adults, I have split from them so suddenly that I don't even remember them!