By Dan Polulak
CruiseMates Teen Editor July 12, 2004
CruiseMates.com is here to help everyone; hence we have created a teen message board. Cruisemates.com is dedicated to helping you obtain detailed information about your cruise experience before you actually take it, and wants you to share your experience afterwards. You can also use our teen message board to meet other teens who will be sailing on the same cruise as you, to chat about past and current cruise experiences, or simply to meet teens who also share an interest in cruising.
One benefit of our user-friendly website is to meet people in advance who will be sailing on your cruise. Getting to know someone before you leave is good for teens who may be nervous about meeting people on board; it guarantees you "know" someone on the ship already! You can talk online beforehand and set up a meeting place once onboard. I have personally met some teens this way before my cruises, and I still keep in touch with them this to this day.
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Probably the most popular section of the teen message boards is the discussion of past cruises. Although cruises leave every weekend, with thousands of guests, every cruise experience is different. Lots of teens really enjoy their vacation and do crazy and entertaining things, and this is the site to share them. According to recent posts on the teen boards, the average top 10 things teens look forwards to on a cruise are:
Meeting new people
The food
Elevators
The islands
Teen nightclubs
Late nights
Shows
Service
The ocean
Free ice cream
All those who posted shared similar interests in cruising. Other things teens looked forwards to were the ship, formal night, the crew and parties. The message boards are a good way to get acquainted with other teens and share past cruise experience.
Not only are our boards cruiser friendly, but CruiseMates.com is a good place to chat about everyday teen activities. These topics, cruise related or not, make this teen message board a good place to visit. You can share interests such as music, sports and jobs all in one place. Also, every Sunday night at 9, there is a teen chat. These chats are hosted so that teens can have a live internet conversation all at the same time about basically anything.
CruiseMates.com is your one-stop website for cruising and teen discussion. As teen host, my job is to make sure you leave for your cruise experience excited and prepared. Hope to see you around the boards sometime soon.
