Posted on 03/11/2017 5:53:58 AM PST by C19fan
This destination attracts a fair share of college students year-round, but Cancun's coed party crowd can swell to more than 100,000 during spring break. The students are lured by sunny beaches, inexpensive lodging, endless nightlife, and a legal drinking age of 18.
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My sister and my wife’s cousin live there. I used to work at the Navy Base by the bridge..................
I’m with you on that one. Being an engineering student in college, spring break was an opportunity to catch up on studying and work to earn money.
I live just past there off Magnolia Beach Road (below Bay Point)
Same here. Never did understand the wild life, nor did my friends. Most went home for Spring Break and slept till noon.
Knock on wood, things are still quiet here though it’s sure to pick up in the next hour or so when the idiots wake up. Surprised there weren’t partiers last night but guarantee we’ll be calling the sheriff’s dept. for the noise tonight. There’s a resort down from us and two big party houses the other direction so our windows literally shake. $1300 a night divided by as many as they can squeeze in. Yee haw! Used to be nice and peaceful but not after we were discovered.
There was no such Spring Break for us back in the 60s and 70s. A few of the rich kids took off and went places, but most of us went home for the week or worked full time at our part time jobs. And I agree on the cost of these boondoggles; out of sight! Priorities are different I suppose...
We ride our motorcycles to PC every couple of months. We were there just last weekend before last.........but never during Spring Break!.................
in my case, my child wanted to go to Captiva and it was mostly parents and kids. It was nice. Not crowded. I never went on spring break as a kid. Never had any money. Worked all the time. But if you can do it, I figure it is a nice trip with your child while he/she is still willing to be seen with you. Lots of parents take their kids to the beach, although to me, the rustic cabin is preferable to the ritzy resort. I would hate to be around drunken crowds though. My son doesn’t want to go, but he has travels lined up for summer. He will be home sleeping and studying. I love the beach and the sun always have. Used to be a lifeguard as one of my teenage jobs.
Is it Spring already?
LOl! I’m smirking. I’m from Jax and it was a short hop for me from FSU to Panama City, Jax Beach or Daytona at Spring Break. It was actually pretty fun for most of us. Then there was always the lunatic fringe that got the publicity and landed up on TV. :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNKKvTbWDRM
In the late 70’ early 80’s I was in my 20’s, a public utility tech with plenty of cash living with in walking distance from the Candy Store,home of the Wet Tees Shirt contest.
Truly living the dream.
I knew a few as well.
Twenty five years later, they're all church ladies (who believe their kids when they tell them they'll be spending spring break at Bible study and painting orphanages).
Same here. The engineering program didn’t really give us any spare time. I never went on SB in college. But I did get BS in engineering in just 4 years...and had a good job lined up before graduation.
Today’s Snowflakes don’t understand that it takes dedication and hard work to get ahead.
“Spring Break” — an idea that Corporate America needs to implement. Maybe Trump can force all companies to offer this perq. Hillary would have granted it on May 1, but that’s too late in the springtime.
***resident church ladies***
I remember the major news magazines,LIFE, TIME and such bemoaning the decadence of the Spring Breaks back in the mid 1960s. They even had a series of photos of the college students, (heavy emphasis on bikini clad girls doing their “thing”) at the beach.
These were the same magazines that had no problem photographing the nudity at Woodstock a few years later.
If you want people to buy your articles bemoaning the decadence of youth, it's helpful to have naked pics.
I'm sure that "expensive" is a relative term, but I don't think any of those places listed offers a room rate I could've afforded while in college. I suppose a group could split a suite 4-6 ways, but that's a good-sized cost.
I do hear that a large number of students use student loan excess to pay for such extravagance. With plane fare and meals, it's no wonder so many students can't pay back their loans.
Wow, look at all of those nobodys! Partying like it’s nobody’s business.
When I was a kid I did my very first Spring Break in Daytona.
Long story short - this one dumbass decided to get high and wanted to meet the devil. "The devil wants me! Satan needs me in Hell!!" he kept saying as his roommate tried to hold him from jumping off the balcony.
He managed to jump. Hit the ally below after 15 floors. We ran downstairs and rendered first-aid - we were all lifeguards - until the paramedics got there.
Heard later on he died on the way to the hospital.
Cured me from ever wanting to do drugs.
I don't bat for the other side, but I just don't care. That's about as attention-grabbing as you can get. That generation of women feeds off the attention like it's oxygen. The best and only way to combat it is to not pay attention.
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