Ariana Grande dilemma

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OK we are spending the summer in Florida. Myself, husband, and children. As it is half work half holiday - we are taking our 19 year old niece for the 6 weeks to help out when we are working.

My girl is 15 and we have managed to get Ariana Grande tickets in Atlanta. For information it's about a two hour flight from Orlando.

Now my husband is happy for our 19 year old niece (who is very sensible) to go with our daughter.

I have said it's a big city, and I would rather go. Not to the concert, but just travel with them.

They only plan to be gone 48 hours.

Who is right?

a considerable amount of hotels will not let you book a room unless 21.

Remarkable you do not know that. Not sure her niece marrying on the evening or being tried as an adult would be of much benefit to her in the event her flight cancelled.

😂

Just sell the tickets and buy some for the Florida dates. Problem solved. Not sure why you got Atlanta in the first place.

I live in the States now and would more likely let my 15 year old travel with her 19 year old relative here than I would in the UK.

How does this solve the problem? It would still require an overnight stay. It would require either driving or flying to Fort Lauderdale then getting transportation to Sunrise, which is farther from the Ft. Lauderdale airport than the Atlanta venue is from the Atlanta airport.

What a stupid statement!!! So you have to have to be old to know how to look after someone else???!!!! I would say a lot of 19 years old are a lot more sensible and streetwise than the grown ups as you seem to call them!!!

There’s a big difference between a 19 YO taking local transport to a gig or even flying in the UK to a 19 YO travelling in America.

19 is not an adult in America and could cause issues in the airport, when the try and stay a hotel and so on.

As capable as this 19 YO may be, would they know how to handle the situation if they were pulled aside in the airport to questioned by armed security as to why two children are travelling together or when they were refused to stay at a hotel as two minors?

19 is not an adult in America

How many times are we going to have to go over this on this thread?

I am all for the OP traveling with her daughter and niece, but the niece is an adult. Once again, the age of majority is 18 in every state, but three. And even in those three, 18-year-olds exercise most of the rights of adults. Certainly in Georgia where I grew up and in Florida where I live, I can assure you that 18 is the age of majority.

For what it's worth, the reason that the drinking age was raised to 21 across the United States was to address the issue of alcohol consumption and driving among younger drivers. Those laws don't have anything to do with whether or not someone is an adult.

So you don't have to be over 21 to be considered the adult in a hotel booking in any US state? I think this is where the confusion is

I'm no longer sure where the confusion is but there have been several statements on this thread that a 19 year old in the US is not an adult. That's just simply not true.

As for hotel rooms, there is no universal rule about adults 18 and over but not yet 21 being able to book a room. It is up to the hotels. Some allow 18, 19 and 20 year olds to book a room. Others require the person to be 21.

You wouldn’t fly from Orlando to Fort Lauderdale in this instance. The parent(s) could drive them directly to the arena (if the 19 year old isn’t from the US or doesn’t drive). There would be no air travel involved, no working out how to get the arena from the airport and they wouldn’t be alone except inside the concert. I don’t see how this doesn’t solve the problem.

I was an au pair abroad at 18 with a lot of responsibility for very young kids in an unfamiliar country. I certainly wasn't too young or inexperienced to cope. I'd be perfectly happy with a sensible 19 year old taking my teenager on an adventure like this.
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